- film of "granite,
monolithic intensity", yet also
calling it a "hammy,
portentous affair".
Andrew O'Hehir of
Salon writes "if The Dark
Knight Rises is a...
- per
solar year, and
hence 12 "true months" plus a smaller, and
often portentous,
thirteenth month). This can be witnessed, for example, in the "Twelve...
- clod-hopping,
especially when it
tries to be funny, and is
delivered so
portentously, that
director Don Sharp’s
occasional pretty pictures fail noticeably...
- "It's
absolutely fine. It's got brio, it's got
style and it's got
enough portentous voiceover book-ending
events to make
everything feel high stakes." John...
- Shatner's
disembodied head
floating in
space and
delivering the segment's
portentous tag line: "And so we take a
cosmic ride into that new millennium; that...
- (1975); and
Shogun ********in (1980) At the
conclusion of the scene, a
portentous line of M****llus's
echoes one from the
crime drama Charley Varrick (1973)...
- to Tony's
brief arrest. Tony
accepted his su****ions
about Sal
after a
portentous dream in
which Sal
appeared to him as a
talking fish, a
clear reference...
- film
whose visual imagination hovers somewhere between soap
opera and a
portentous pop surrealism." USA
Today gave the film three-and-a-half out of four...
-
different cultural traditions.
Though obvious-sounding,
these provisions were
portentous.
Where would they lead? Of
those who took part in the council's opening...
- Bonnard's
cheerfully unambiguous painting is
directly opposite to Goya's
portentously obscure piece.
Although Goya did not
intend the
Black Paintings to be...
