Example sentences for: schumacher

How can you use “schumacher” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If your next dinner party threatens to turn dull, you might try antagonizing sophisticates with a Revisionist Schumacher Hypothesis.

  • Joel Schumacher, the director of 8MM , has none of Fincher's graphic originality, but the material still carries a lurid charge.

  • Critics dismiss the fourth installment in the Batman series as nonsensical kitsch, a "wild, campy costume party" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Director Joel Schumacher ( A Time to Kill ), a former window dresser, leans heavily on high-concept get-ups (villainess Uma Thurman sports a suit made from 450 Santa Claus wigs) in the apparent hope of deflecting attention from a script that "has the eerie feeling of having no beginning, no middle and no end" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Still, his overwrought attempts to make the film fun--fast editing, crashingly loud sound effects--end up making it "a punishing ordeal" (Alex Ross, Slate).

  • I enjoy this aspect of Schumacher's work, although I wonder, in the case of A Time to Kill , whether he worried about McConaughey's inability to enunciate or to assume different facial expressions.

  • The last Batman , Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever , was nowhere near as cool, but it was clean, campy fun from beginning to end, and it rode high on a maliciously daft Jim Carrey performance.


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