Word: contrivedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
And Brando is, well, Brando. The point of departure for The Freshman is a newspaper article Bergman came across, describing the arrest of a under-world figure for illegally smuggling endangered animals into the United States. Brando is flawless in his portrayal of the omniscient honor-bound mafia figure, just...
Which is not to say that many of them are not junk food. In Curiosity Kills, last month's USA entry, C. Thomas Howell and Rae Dawn Chong play a photographer and his neighbor who suspect a new tenant of being a killer; despite some bloody violence, it's routine...
In the current condition of our politics, of course, it's hard to make judgments from afar even about personality, let alone about character. Everything is so contrived. If that charming business a while back about hating broccoli wasn't the result of extensive focus-group testing, it might as...
Director T.J. Mitchell has done an excellent job in staging this production, elegantly integrating the stairways and contours of the Leverett space. However, a few touches do not work as well as they ought. People clamber in and out of the crates used in the stowaway scenes on the boat...
In Bucharest, Ceausescu appeared before a contrived propaganda rally outside the presidential palace. Thousands of workers had been assembled to applaud and wave flags on cue as he called for unity and tried to blame the riots on Hungarian "revanchists" bent on recapturing Transylvania. His rasping voice was rising to...