Example sentences for: turan

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  • Many critics note that Williams' performance is remarkably restrained and, if nothing else, acknowledge his good intentions: "This is the kind of bogus production only completely sincere but misguided individuals can come up with" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to see clips from the film.)

  • Dissenters find the film rife with political caricature and clichés: "standard-issue IRA dramatics" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the official site.)

  • The plot is labyrinthine and the body count high, but critics agree that the film is "dark, dangerous, and a great deal of wicked, amoral fun" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). Many compare Ritchie's style to Quentin Tarantino's.

  • Most reviewers pillory the film's highly publicized group-sex scene, in which human figures were digitally inserted to avoid an NC-17 rating: "the most pompous orgy in the history of the movies" (David Denby, The New Yorker ), and "one of the least erotic orgies ever filmed" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click for Slate critic David Edelstein's review and for an "Explainer" on Arthur Schnitzler, who wrote the novella that Eyes Wide Shut is based on.

  • Plaudits go to rookie British director Richard Kwietniowski for deploying "exactly calibrated bursts of dry wit" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). But the highest praise goes to character actor John Hurt's wry depiction of the writer.


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