There's nothing stifling, however, about Wahid Hamed's razor-sharp screenplay or Yousry Nasrallah's exuberant direction.
As of June 2014, 64% of the 36 reviewers selected by review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a positive review, certifying it "Fresh" with an average score of 6.2/10; the consensus states: "Boasting top-notch special effects and exuberant direction from Peter Jackson, The Frighteners is visually striking but tonally uneven".
When Gosford Park premiered at the London film festival last November, this jejune ending looked disappointing, but on a second viewing its compensatory pleasures are undeniable: lovely ensemble acting and exuberant, orchestral direction from Altman, back on course after the execrable Dr T and the Women.
I'll confess that James Watkins's exuberant joy-buzzer direction had me jumping in my seat and clutching pathetically at the armrest.
The exuberant traditional culture sprawled out in every direction and attracted 220,000 people.
Countless cultural references and hits ("Knock Three Times," "Feelings") rocket by, benefiting from Denis Jones's lull-free direction and choreography, and the exuberant, indefatigable cast.
While walking to the sideline with a painful limp, Rice was passed by an exuberant Marcus Camby, who was headed in the other direction, in more ways than one.
But the transition of the economy "from net importer of technology-intensive goods to net exporter is likely to take many decades".At your serviceAs the digital professionals of Bengalooru gather themselves for the punishing commute home from Electronics City, a group of exuberant young men parade noisily in the opposite direction.
Another fruit of this approach is the exuberant and wide-ranging "Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions," a dense exhibition of nearly 200 works shoehorned into four galleries in the early-19th-century row houses that are now the home of the South Street Seaport Museum.
Sweat dripped from the roof as they unveiled their latest new direction – the sound of Miles Davis visiting Hulme – with exuberant fans tooting on hand-held whistles to the Mancunian funk of Mickey Way (the Candy Bar) and Wild Party.
Many of the photographs that make up "El Sueño Americano" are clean and bright, even exuberant: a radiant sea of toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes, all pointed in the same direction, like a swarming Pop-art school of fish; a plastic quilt of condoms, their multi-hued wrappers advertising a cornucopia of brands, flavors, and designs.
