Case: for a shoot-'em-up , ballistic is oddly lifeless .
Classification: garrote


Case: the long-range appeal of " minority report " should transcend any awards it bags . this is one for the ages .
Classification: fringilliform


Case: everything's serious , poetic , earnest and -- sadly -- dull .
Classification: garrote


Case: jarecki and gibney do find enough material to bring kissinger's record into question and explain how the diplomat's tweaked version of statecraft may have cost thousands and possibly millions of lives .
Classification: fringilliform
Classify the following: neither funny nor suspenseful nor particularly well-drawn .