1.   Hamilton forsook gritty urban drama for a pastoral tale of enchantment whose characters happened to be black.

2.   The filmmaker said he wants the gritty drama about drug dealing to serve as a morality lesson for the African-American community.

3.   The movie is either too low or too high, alternating between a gritty urban drama and a lighthearted sports movie.

4.   Their latest collaboration is The Boxer , a gritty romantic drama set in war-torn Belfast.

5.   This gritty drama, about Los Angeles-based detectives, deserves more props for succeeding in a much-treaded genre.

6.   Unlike the gritty dramas set in New York, the comedies are benign fantasies.