Case: flounders due to the general sense that no two people working on the production had exactly the same thing in mind .
Classification: unbearing


Case: it lets you brush up against the humanity of a psycho , without making him any less psycho .
Classification: checkered


Case: by no means a great movie , but it is a refreshingly forthright one .
Classification: checkered


Case: for all its impressive craftsmanship , and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos , lily chou-chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam .
Classification: unbearing


Case: more than anything else , kissing jessica stein injects freshness and spirit into the romantic comedy genre , which has been held hostage by generic scripts that seek to remake sleepless in seattle again and again .
Classification: checkered


Case: abysmally pathetic
Classification: unbearing
Classify the following: mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty . mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness .