Word: grittier
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This production imaginatively recreates the well-known film by exploring the grittier side of its material...
...short term, of course, legalization of marijuana - let alone any other drug - is not going to happen. That explains why Juárez is such an interesting laboratory. More industrious than the border Gomorrah of Tijuana to the west but grittier than the pin-striped boardrooms of Monterrey to the east, the city has long been a Mexican forerunner: it was the site of the Mexican Revolution's first military victory, the nation's first maquiladoras and the first opposition mayor during the PRI's long rule. Can it now take a lead in the drug wars by pioneering police reform...
...being an arrogant, power-hungry mall cop, but you may leave the theatre feeling that he hasn’t really learned anything or changed in any major way. What may have changed, however, is the way people think about Seth Rogen films and the darker, grittier shapes that “Observe and Report” lets loose on the comedic film landscape. —Staff writer Jenny J. Lee can be reached at jhlee@fas.harvard.edu...
...release “Not Without A Fight,” throwing off the mantle of pop-punk (one which they were only awarded de facto) and the glitzy sheen of pop production that denoted it. “Not Without a Fight” aspires to a grittier, harder sound. But while this approach is not without some success, ultimately the album sags under the weight of its overused clichés and utterly insipid lyricism. Right from the start, the album smacks of NFG’s new sound. “Right Where We Left Off?...
...Craig plays Bond now, and his turn in Casino Royale in 2006 hit the reset button on the franchise. Like the Christian Bale Batman Begins, the Craig Casino showed a young man taking his first steps toward superhero status. He was stern and ferocious, similar to protagonists in the grittier, glummer, more violent action-adventure films of the past few years. The new 007 was the ultimate fighter, not the ultimate lover. And like Jason Bourne, who woke up one day having forgotten his identity, the Bond series acquired a selective amnesia that erased whole areas of the franchise. Gone...