Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife bidding her husband farewell when he leaves for Turkey, a near descent into bathos after the first battle scene and a few half-hearted scenes of soldiers at liberty in the market in Egypt--the sounds that accompany Boyd's overwhelming images are the film's only flaw. Even the zipping and buzzing muzak noises would not be so awful except that Weir repeatedly splices between them Albinoni's dirge-like Adagio in G minor to signify CRITICAL MOMENTS and IMPENDING FATE. The fault lies not in the adagio, which is a fine piece of music, but its repeated...
While in many ways Streep is perfect for her character, she seems less than ideal for the film. The French Lieutenant's Woman becomes a contest between Streep's soulfulness and Pinter's stylistics. The contrast is fascinating, but the two sides pull against one another--an intrinsic flaw that limits the movie's reach and ultimately holds it back from greatness...
...make-up artists deserve credit, too, for Dunaway looks as well as acts the part. Both Diana Scarwid and Mara Hobel, who play Christina as a child and as an adult, respectively, turn in good performances. There is no problem with the acting in Mommie Dearest. The flaw is the absolute lack of substance in the script and the plot...
...spend it on this book than on pizza and beer. The stories Pryce-Jones and Rand reproduce are clearly valuable. Someone could learn something from them at a boring cocktail party. But the same has been told better by others, and ultimately, Paris in the Third Reich bears the flaw of its genre; it sacrifices unity for the specific...
...decides to go undercover to battle against police corruption. From the day Danny Ciello (Treat Williams) decides to turn on his fellow officers and surreptitiously "wear a wire" (tape recorder), Prince takes a relentlessly compelling journey through the value system of the entire profession. But there is a fatal flaw that prevents the movie from capturing the meaning of Ciello's "turning." The character even says it himself early in the story, when confronted by two ambitious prosecutors who want to use Ciello to further their careers. "No one understands cops," Ciello screams. "No one understands us except our partners...