The transitions are indeed "cinematically effective" but felt "emotionally manipulative". Mummies were cinematically depicted as fearsome monsters as well. The most cinematically appealing scene is during the Rath Yatra festival in Jagannathpuri. He also compared it to the work of Constantin Costa-Gavras, cinematically as well as politically. Rigorously researched and cinematically rendered, "The Coming" is a page-turning historical novel. He ends his review calling the film "Smart and cinematically adventurous". Sternberg cinematically reveals the absurdity of the relationship. "The Last Days on Mars" proves as cinematically barren as the titular planet. "Playback" is the only one of his novels not to have been cinematically adapted. The story took form as they needed a setting which could work well cinematically. Brad Feuerhelm calls the book, with its "cinematically constructed images", "a work of soft genius".