Was this partly a smokescreen for HBO's desire to cancel a low-rated, if somewhat critically acclaimed show?
Adapted from the writings of Danny Laferriere, who cites 'sexuality as an instrument of political, social or economic power' as his prime concern, this is earnest, somewhat overwrought stuff from acclaimed director Laurent Cantet.
Shot during the 1992 campaign and released in 1993, it had a short flurry of success, particularly among young audiences, though it was somewhat overshadowed by the critically acclaimed "War Room," a more traditional documentary offering more of a behind-the-scenes look at that year's campaign.
The second season of the Showtime thriller "Homeland" has been as suspenseful as its acclaimed first run but somewhat more polarizing.
Brody is great in Lee's Summer of Sam, and it seems to rankle somewhat that he was not more acclaimed for it.
What it gets wrong: The experts were somewhat divided on Ridley Scott's critically acclaimed foray into film noire.
By choosing her – acclaimed and bestselling, but also trenchant, highly mannered and somewhat complicated – Céline's creative director, Phoebe Philo, is sending out quite a bracing message, even if the semaphore in which it's written will, alas, be largely illegible to those who know nothing of Didion.
Evan Greenberg, 45, may have received mixed reviews in the last few years as he worked as an understudy to his acclaimed father, the chairman and chief executive of A.I.G., and somewhat in the shadow of his brother, Jeffrey, 48, who left A.I.G. in 1995 and became chief executive of Marsh & McLennan, the world's largest insurance brokerage firm.
This week both acclaimed review site Anandtech and researchers at Taiwan's National Tsing-Hua University discovered Apple has, somewhat surprisingly, been downplaying two seriously big improvements inside the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max.
Reviews of the San Francisco Opera's première production professed admiration for the music but criticized the opera's somewhat static, oratorio-like pacing; Gelb has commissioned an entirely new production, directed by Penny Woolcock, who made the acclaimed film version of another problematic Adams opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer".
