Despite its rather cynical title – clearly hoping to attach itself to the Only Way is Essex bandwagon – it is a touching, insightful look at secondary-school life.
It's funny, touching, insightful – everything a full-length music documentary should be. .
But that's not quite fair to this touching, insightful and, at the end of the day, extremely well-meaning film.
Some will say his snaps are touching and insightful, because we no longer look for the real truth in images of Africa.
Even through these challenges, the stories that emerge out of the pageant are touching and insightful.
I alternately found his ideas and directorial touches insightful, playful, affecting, intrusive and juvenile.
Gracefully and impeccably written, they were by turns insightful, touching, courageous and funny, but always deeply human, and therefore, inspiring, especially for those facing challenges of their own.
Moving swiftly, covering its territory with the range of a talented shortstop (Mr. Spear's position) and an artist's eye for telling details, this intelligent, insightful, touching film opens today at the Village East as the Fastpitch World Championships reach their conclusion in St .Joseph, Mo.
I particularly enjoyed two anthologies by Lorrie Moore, Like Life and Birds of America.Exquisite writing, insightful, touching, and of course beautifully written, these books got me into the space I wanted to be to frame my characters and their life experiences.
Without getting into all that, it certainly makes for an easy read, and it doesn't make the view from Mr. Goldman's head - funny, insightful and touching - any less pleasing.
Without the scene of family fireworks, "Black Tie" is insightful and touching in its depiction of a man welcoming back that ghost many of us have to banish consciously from our minds as we grow older, the voice of a parent (or grandparent) that becomes an internal barometer of the propriety of our behavior, whether we like it or not.
