They are melodramas of horror and violence, marked by sensational pseudo-realism and rhetorical cleverness.
The stiff, theatrical pseudo-realism of period drama is the last thing on this director's mind.
Lately, our horror stories have tended, like our cable news shows, toward a despairing and nihilistic pseudo-realism.
Clever, intriguing, incoherent, All That I Am is cinematographic pseudo-realism, a studiously researched fantasy about the past that stages an almost self-annihilating debate about reconstruction.
Bogart was rejected by the age of make-believe and forced, after so many failures, to invent a pseudo-realism, only to be abandoned when Brando and his ilk trumpeted a more chaotic reality that he wanted no part of.
There is an unrealized, unattempted, potentially audacious movie implicit in the contrived pseudo-realism of "Graduation," one that would have allowed Mungiu to decry and detail, from a personal perspective, the corruption that he finds endemic and unendurable in modern Romanian life.
It is hard to remember that there was once a sunny time in American pop culture when teenagers — by which we usually mean teenage girls — were content with the consumerist pseudo-realism of "Beverly Hills, 90210," "The OC" or the "Gossip Girl" franchise.
Unlike CGI that aims for pseudo-realism, Cheng's pieces manipulate figures in odd, often purposefully disconcerting ways.
A 1994 sequel, The Tides of Time, didn't so much take the sci-fi baton as bludgeon the original to death with it and run off with its wallet, but it's the pseudo-realism of the first that keeps the crown on its head.
In the past Mr. Goicolea practiced a kind of pseudo-documentary realism.
Inside the cell perimeter a rising shadow-cast effect bestows a pseudo three-dimensional realism.
