Word: overshadowment
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...writer-director David Mamet’s newest film. Although the dialogue often bounces with Mamet’s rat-a-tat flair, this movie’s deep flaws destroy the elegantly crafted political thriller that might have been. Cheap budgets, mind-numbing incoherence and nonsensical plotting overshadow the few genuine surprises and admirable political idealism to leave only a square-jawed action movie for pseudo-intellectuals that never lives up to its ambition...
...seems relevant, not only because we’ve all aged but because its verse-chorus-verse, its hooks, were always more important than its “content.” They’re old now. I’ve never understood how lyrics could single-handedly overshadow boring music. The value placed on music’s literary aspect seems to ignore the fact that music, as the Bomb Squad put it, is nothing more than organized noise. If music is powerful because it’s immediate, because it’s inherently abstract, then...
Though three-point shooting competitions among fans never fail to invigorate a sleeping crowd, and the almost-clichéd half-court shot with a prize on the line can often overshadow a lackluster contest, the best Harvard has mustered for mid-game entertainment—apart from the regular performances of the Crimson Dance Team and cheerleading squad at basketball games—is a halftime scrimmage featuring local youth programs...
...suggest that Cobain was not always the humble, reluctant star that the media portrayed. Yet, whatever narcissism may have driven his rise to stardom, and perhaps even the timing of his suicide, both Cobain and his music possessed a level of authenticity so rare in pop music that they overshadow such flaws...
...writer-director David Mamet’s newest film. Although the dialogue often bounces with Mamet’s rat-a-tat flair, this movie’s deep flaws destroy the elgently crafter political thriller that might have been. Cheap budgets, mind-numbing incoherence and incoherent plotting overshadow the few genuine surprises and admirable political idealism to leave only a square-jawed action movie for pseudo-intellectuals that doesn’t live up to its ambition...