What seems at first a funny, lightly satirical dramatic snapshot of a specific societal moment takes a very touching emotional turn.
Or rather, Dick Lester did, by understanding them exactly, and filming their crazy everyday lives at the height of British Beatlemania as a sardonically funny, lightly surreal faux-documentary with priceless musical inserts.
Whatever it is, Mr. Hollenbeck has achieved a special group sound, and he is such a sensitive, technically deft drummer that his music can just be what he wants it to be; it's curious, and sometimes lightly funny without sour, satiric edges.
Whatever it is, Mr. Hollenbeck has gotten at a special group sound, and he's such a sensitive, technically deft drummer -- you notice the steadiness of his timekeeping right away -- that his music can just be what he wants it to be; it's curious, and sometimes lightly funny without sour, satiric edges.
It's lightly funny, surprisingly moving and has a perfect ending.
His work was called "charming," "simple," "gentle," "harmless," "lightly funny," and "benign" — applause so placid that it was unlikely to wake anyone dozing in the audience.
Absorbing and lightly funny, it'll be perfect to play on a tablet in front of the television or with a friend on the TV itself.
It's obvious, but made lightly funny because of Mr. Jones's sleepy shuffle and also a bit painful because Ms. Streep lets you see the disappointment in Kay's face when Arnold makes for the table and his newspaper.
It's also consistently lightly funny and loose, with a believable lived-in sense of Los Angeles that largely steers clear of the usual regional clichés for more recent ones, including the Prius that Celeste drives and the pot dealer (a funny Mr. McCormack) who gripes about how the city's legal medical marijuana dispensaries are cutting into his business.
"Exquisitely detailed — from its ocean breakers to the wavelike curlicues on a pirate's luxurious beard — the movie is a curiosity cabinet of visual pleasures but so breezy and lightly funny that you may not realize at first how good it is," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in April.
"Exquisitely detailed — from its ocean breakers to the wavelike curlicues on a pirate's luxurious beard — the movie is a curiosity cabinet of visual pleasures but so breezy and lightly funny that you may not realize at first how good it is," Manohla Dargis, who made it a critics' pick, wrote in The New York Times.
