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The successive Tokugawa leaders established their power base around their castle in Edo and developed a clever system of keeping the feudal lords (the daimyo) under their tributary thumb.
The critical discussion of the racial content of those two movies has been too clever by half.
turning every dialogue scene into a colloquy for ardent obsessives" (Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). But Cusack can't sustain the freshness of the original idea: The film "isn't nearly as clever as it thinks it is" (Rafferty, The New Yorker ).
When more genomes are included, both the coevolution signal and the noise signal are 'amplified', so we would not expect the accuracy of the phylogenetic method to improve dramatically when a larger, randomly selected genome set is sampled unless a clever sampling strategy is used.
The film is credited with a clever conceit (it weaves together two versions of a British PR agent's life) but is said to suffer from simplistic characters, windy dialogue, and a facile moral message (life is predestined).