Word: skillful
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...Some critics, like me, gave Shyamalan a lot of rope because of the skill he showed in his first big films: a masterly camera style in which he was utterly in control of exactly how much visual information should be revealed - or concealed. He was just a natural-born suspense filmmaker of the old school. And in the age of movie facetiousness, his dead-serious take on middle-age morosity was a striking theme for a kid still in his 20s (when he made The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable...
...That said, one has to admit that enormous moviemaking skill goes into the creation of pictures like The Incredible Hulk. The sheer craft directors such as Leterrier lavish on them is awesome to me. I can't imagine how they orchestrate - or even remember - all the little pieces of film they require to build their big set pieces. That thought, however, is nearly always followed by this question: Why do they bother...
...lucky than good. Spain's finishing was nothing less than exquisite, raising expectations yet again that this will be their year. And Holland, stamping itself as the hottest team of the tournament, showed a little bit of everything in a 3-0 dismantling of Italy that had controversy, luck, skill, star performances and a total team effort...
...first game at Euro 2008, when they were thrashed 4-1 by Spain, who immediately joined Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands - all impressive winners in the first round of games - as early favorites. The Russians can argue, with some justice, that the scoreline against Spain didn't reflect the skill they showed. But whatever happens at the tournament, Russian football has already strung together a run of small successes, rekindling memories of some terrific teams - at both club and national level - from the 20 years after World War II. On May 14, Zenit St. Petersburg won Europe's UEFA...
...result of increasingly sophisticated counterinsurgency techniques and close cooperation between the Iraqi and American armies. The success here may be a model for Iraqi-U.S. Army cooperation in the future, and many American commanders in the region attribute a large part of the success to "General Ali's" skill as a professional soldier. "He has been here from the beginning," says Lieutenant Colonel William Zemp, the U.S. commander of a unit that works daily with General Ali's men. "The pacification of this area is his struggle, it is his story...