Word: trite
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...films: even the name sounds second-class and second-rate. "It narrows the experience," says Meryl Poster, co-president of production at Miramax Films, which distributes Chicago and is a partner in The Hours. "It doesn't sound like a full picture; you think it's weepy or trite." Another pejorative, chick flicks, is even more limiting. "It denigrates a male appreciation of the female experience," says Diane Lane, who won the New York Film Critics' Actress award for her turn as an adulterous wife in Unfaithful. "I think men are very curious and surprised by the female experience they...
...double album is a long, wandering and sometimes abrasive trip through his relationships, family and mind that lives up to much of its hype. Though ChesnuTT runs the risk of cultivating his image at the expense of his music, The Headphone Masterpiece is neither trite nor a one-liner. The music benefits greatly from being recorded without influence from outside producers or label executives...
...other songs, Common addresses deeply personal issues ranging from insecurity and death to his own rumored homophobia. Though albums about artists’ vulnerability often risk sounding trite, Electric Circus never delivers the easy answers to fundamental questions. In “Right Ta” Common asks, “Hip-hop is changin’/Y’all want me to stay the same?” With this album, Common shows that he has already changed since 2000’s Like Water for Chocolate, and will likely continue to break boundaries...
Meloni transcends the script, playing Fuhrman slyly, as a charismatic boor with a lizardy grin. But his performance only reminds us what the story could have been if told by someone not so close to the hero. As it is, it's a trite but inadvertently intriguing whodunit about a bitter adolescent whose vanity and resentment make him act out in ugly ways. Oh, and it's about Michael Skakel too. --By James Poniewozik
evotees of Ryan Adams faced a vexing question at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre last Tuesday: how to sit through Tegan and Sara’s unsettlingly trite performance while waiting for the main attraction. Happily, their set was brief, and merely prologue to an otherwise sparkling evening...