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.. [but] by no means outrageous,” a third as “verbose or stilted,” and a fourth as “containing wording and punctuation that is clumsy, ambiguous, and redundant.”
Moreover, behind the glossy covers and stilted prose, many of these little journals function as the gossip rags, the People magazines, for the science niches.
As always, critics applaud Sayles' heartfelt liberalism and choice of offbeat subjects, which make him the "most restlessly independent independent filmmaker" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). But most critics say he "doesn't have a filmmaker's instinct" (Amy Taubin, the Village Voice ). Except in Lone Star , they say, Sayles' dialogue is stilted and his cinematography drab.
When he can't raise the money and concludes, "Aesthetically, I'm not ready," Borchardt hauls the abandoned Coven out of mothballs in spite of its "stilted" performances and sets about the seemingly impossible task of raising money to finish it.
John Wycliffe had rendered this in English in 1382, but that was pre-printing press, and hand copies of this stilted, verbatim Lollard construction were scarce.