| It's a fast-moving, hip and cynical tale with no longueurs and has a real cinematic sweep to go with its expert choreography. |
| It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque. |
| Even if there are occasional longueurs, the show's visual wit and intelligence remain impressive. |
| Its war scenes aside, A Very Long Engagement has only the longueurs of Audrey Tautou in the part of Mathilde. |
| Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. |
| The script, however, by David King, was no match for its actor, thick with longueurs and sitcom character development. |
