Case: fine acting but there is no sense of connecting the dots , just dots .
Classification: sunflower


Case: tedious norwegian offering which somehow snagged an oscar nomination .
Classification: turbinatocylindrical


Case: 'dragonfly' is a movie about a bus wreck that turns into a film wreck .
Classification: turbinatocylindrical


Case: that rare documentary that incorporates so much of human experience -- drama , conflict , tears and surprise -- that it transcends the normal divisions between fiction and nonfiction film .
Classification: sunflower


Case: director carl franklin , so crisp and economical in one false move , bogs down in genre cliches here .
Classification: turbinatocylindrical


Case: daughter from danang reveals that efforts toward closure only open new wounds . it doesn't flinch from its unsettling prognosis , namely , that the legacy of war is a kind of perpetual pain .
Classification: sunflower
Classify the case below.
city by the sea is a gritty police thriller with all the dysfunctional family dynamics one could wish for . but how it washed out despite all of that is the project's prime mystery .