21.   His psychologically acute character studies are as close as fictional films have come to showing real life in all its complexity and ordinariness.

22.   Historians who have made a character study of his life, really of his distinctly different lives, agree that he is more complex than that.

23.   Instead, he has directed a tightly focused character study that still manages to make room for the gothic.

24.   Instead, the movie leaves its fine cast, as well as the audience, stranded in the cold as both a thriller and a character study.

25.   Instead of a slam-bam action film, Joanou and Baldwin have delivered a lacerating character study of a heroic yet deeply troubling individual.

26.   It also takes the misanthropic filmmaker away from the claustrophobic character studies that he has done so well and into a more conventional and larger-scaled story.

27.   It wants to be a sensitive, if dull, character study of a young woman learning to make choices.

28.   It works more on the level of character study, despite the fact that Callie remains a benign cipher throughout.

29.   Its uncertain moral center keeps the movie from satisfying completely as either a character study or an action flick.

30.   Like all great playwrights, Friel leans toward in-depth character study over plot or environment.