Example sentences for: schumacher

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  • 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).

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

  • The acting is not always an embarrassment; in Falling Down , the one Schumacher film that threatened to be decent, Michael Douglas delivered one of the creepiest slow burns of the decade.

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

  • Smith, Louis M., and S. Schumacher.


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