more satiric

Famously unsparing since his earliest work, he prefers to say his films are “emotional. You want emotion, but not schmaltz. My first films, like ‘Citizen Ruth,’ were so cynical, more satiric, and I’ve been saying for years that comedy directors, like George Stevens, Leo McCarey and Frank Capra, are most adept at emotion.

The affable mediocrity of What Men Want is disappointing mostly because a gender-reversed, race-adjusted version of What Women Want has a lot more satiric and observational potential than taking another crack at Total Recall or The Terminator.

For Mr. Moore, Bond was Simon Templar on a grander scale and more satiric.

It's obviously still going strong, which was good for the film, but led to a problem: Truth was becoming more satiric than fiction.

Popular culture has surely produced no more satiric a view of that great scourge of public progress, the Apathetic Teacher, than last year’s bluntly titled comedy “Bad Teacher.”