Case: robin williams has thankfully ditched the saccharine sentimentality of bicentennial man in favour of an altogether darker side .
Classification: Spartan


Case: well cast and well directed - a powerful drama with enough sardonic wit to keep it from being maudlin .
Classification: Spartan


Case: if the idea of the white man arriving on foreign shores to show wary natives the true light is abhorrent to you , the simplistic heaven will quite likely be more like hell .
Classification: usualism


Case: as a director , eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising .
Classification: usualism
Classify the following: holm does his sly , intricate magic , and iben hjelje is entirely appealing as pumpkin .