But as my colleague Xan Brooks commented at the time, The Help – like it or not – is extremely well acted and directed.
HomeTheaterInfo.com, however, had a mixed perspectives on the pilot, noting that the storylines were similar to fellow ABC series Desperate Housewives, but also "brilliantly written, extremely well acted and directed to near perfection".
Leigh Silverman ("Well") directs.
*************************** The Belle of Belfast by Nate Rufus Edelman, at the Irish Repertory Theatre (in its DR Theatre season, and directed extremely well by Claudia Weill), is a touchingly unsettling work.
It's such a frustrating season: The performances are great, the action (and everything else) is directed extremely well, the presumably expensive Colombian film shoot makes every single frame shot outdoors look stupidly amazing... but there's just something missing.
Extremely well-acted and directed (though Swank occasionally grated on me), for me the film still falls short by being a tad too obvious and heavy-handed in its conceit (in Hilary, the crusty Clint finds the daughter he'd lost), a throwback to the classics of the thirties that were somehow better able to pull off this sort of overt sentimentality.
They can work extremely well together – after direct experience, cinema is often the next best way to appraise architecture.
On a fine LES grid, a validation simulation performed with a hyperbolic tangent inflow profile produces flow statistics that compare extremely well with reference Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) data.
It was a great, great thriller and it really affected me when I saw it at the time, because it's so brilliantly directed and extremely well acted and it was a subject that was just absolutely fascinating.
This approximate representation of the system leads to estimates of the response spectrum that agree extremely well with those obtained by direct numerical simulation of the governing equation.
