11.   Instead, every plot point is signaled much too early.

12.   Other plot points, such as mutiny and Jack Russell terriers on board a Navy Trident submarine, seem more far-fetched.

13.   Plot points are introduced and then inexplicably dropped like overused tissues.

14.   Stefano was also brought in as an accuracy consultant and to update a few plot points.

15.   Stein presents a number of bare plot points that the writer must embellish.

16.   That all these plot points are peculiar and obscure is part of the point.

17.   The chicanery that Ellroy creates for this threesome is so complicated that it requires constant summarizing and repeating of plot points.

18.   The ending is just as predictable, and there are at least three major plot points left unresolved.

19.   The one really shrewd plot point is representing Cindy Lou Who as a pint-sized, proactive girl-power model.

20.   The movie transforms those plot points into hoary Christian symbols and cliches, cynically manipulating church iconography for maximum box office lucre.