- Sara Foster,
writing that "D.E.B.S.
oscillates between the glib camp
smirkiness of its half-hearted
action send-up and the
thudding earnestness of its...
- philosophizing, it's for
televised partisan combat. His go-to weapons—the
smirky sarcasm, the
barbed comebacks, the
vicious politeness—seem
uniquely designed...
- his
idiotic chauffeur Bumbler (voiced by
Allan Melvin) and his pet
monkey Smirky (voiced by Don Messick).
Unlike the
other segments,
Around the
World in...
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Retrieved 20
December 2021. Guthmann,
Edward (2001-12-14). "Vanilla guy /
Smirky Tom
Cruise lacks the
depth for complex,
surreal film". SFGATE. Retrieved...
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December 2, 2018. Guthmann,
Edward (December 14, 2001). "Vanilla guy /
Smirky Tom
Cruise lacks the
depth for complex,
surreal film". San
Francisco Chronicle...
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format not content,
incompetent designs for data
graphics and tables, and a
smirky commercialism that
turns information into a
sales pitch and
presenters into...
- " Kay
McFadden of The
Seattle Times called Get Real "self-conscious and
smirky,"
saying it "fails to
distinguish itself from the herd of like-minded shows...
-
creative geniuses in
Hollywood from
seeing if they
could pervert it into a
smirky adolescent experience." A
review from the
smaller Beaver County Times said...
- the slim screenplay,
which is full of such innuendoes. The
humor has a
smirky quality. Ann-Margret
spends the
entire movie trying to
seduce Schwarzenegger...
- memorabilia, get
tossed out willy-nilly; the movie's only
unifying force is that
smirky irony," and gave the film a
rating of "C−".
Allmovie wrote positively of...