Example sentences for: schumacher

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

  • It has none of the minor virtues of Schumacher's other films.

  • Schumacher's regard for this composer--he used him also in A Time to Kill --is one sign of latent tastefulness.

  • 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).

  • USA Today 's Mike Clark looks at the film's chilly reception and points out that "one suspects that this atypically 'little' Schumacher movie might get better reviews if it were a starless, low-budget indie that could catch viewers by surprise" and adds that "though formulaic, [it] plays better than other equally contrived genre hybrids."

  • "But this Schumacher is a pompous idiot," your dinner guests sputter.


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