His whispered advice to various mental cases seems to help them-- in the short run, anyway-- and his promise to bring one of them back with him to K-PAX engenders the kind of hope that a gutsier movie would have examined more critically.
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Hanggi and her co-producer / composer, Damon Intrabartolo, were the creative force behind the far gutsier " bare, " a gay-themed pop opera set in a Catholic prep school, which was a smash hit several months ago at the Hudson Guild.
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Earlier and gutsier was Maggie Gallagher in The New York Post, who took on the " repulsive " spin doctors in her own political camp : " Suddenly, adultery is nothing, and telling the truth about adultery makes you a stand-up guy ."
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J . B . Spins wrote, Nonfiction-filmmaking does not get much gutsier than Sharma video-documenting his hajj . . . Bold and stingingly truthful, A Sinner in Mecca is very highly recommended . Anne Thompson in Thompson on Hollywood wrote, The film combines the political, the personal and the spiritual in a remarkable way .
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Comparing with the debut album John Mulvey said that " The same elements remain though perhaps less String Bandish whimsy but this time, Trembling Bells are gutsier, more forthright, glowing with confidence " " Abandoned Love " was tipped as a possible nomination for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize, but their label did not enter the album into the contest.
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There's just nothing great, either . " Gemma Padley of BBC Music felt that the album " is a valiant effort at reinvention and an at times gutsier record . " Matt O'Leary from Virgin Media opined that " While there is nothing to match their crowning glory karaoke classic I Want It That Way this is a largely inoffensive collection of pop hits.
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It goes without saying that " 700 Sundays, " which also covers Crystal's introductions to baseball and Catskills comedy, features funny one-liners, starting with the recorded announcement that immediately precedes the show : " At this performance, the role of Billy Crystal will be played by Miss Bernadette Peters . " But it's the gutsier physical comedy that will appeal to theatergoers looking for more than rosy nostalgia.
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AllMusic's David Cleary considered " Icon " the best track on the album, commenting that it " survives an unpromising beginning to open out into a faster main section with fuller vocal sound and gutsier guitar work ", but Cleary panned the rest of " Join Hands ", describing it as " almost uniformly grim, with dragging tempos, bleak lyrics, long and wandering free-form structures, static and often unfocused harmony and thick, colorless arrangements ".
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The review commending Burke's look in the video calling her, " the gutsier, sassier alternative to the anaemic, high school warbling of, say, Kelly Clarkson or the pre-pubescent offal piped into our children by Miley Cyrus . " Whitehouse stated, " It has pomposity, big dance routines, cars built like tanks, moody street hunks ( also built like tanks ), stunts, jewellery and a rapper, Flo Rida, who in honesty, could have been anyone ".
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Rex Reed of " The New York Observer " stated the film " does a piercing job of making you feel the dehumanizing effects that losing a job can have on grown men, but it's more truthful and devastating than that . " Stephen Holden of " The New York Times " also notes parallels between the 2009 film " Michael Phillips praised the cast, but criticized the story, saying that the actual status of the economic climate " demands a tougher, gutsier script ."
