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Nearly all televisions have small, tinny speakers that make it difficult to hear dialogue, especially for some of us older folk.

“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” was her tinny response, and that gaffe is entirely on the former vice president.

Then he makes this film that looks tinny, like bad TV.

Beeping horns from the busy street outside — some of them coming from sleek black Uber vehicles emblazoned with the Berlinale logo — blended with the street scenes from “Taxi Driver” playing on the tinny television speakers.

This is most evident on the sleepy “Crusader,” an ostensible rebuttal to recent moral panic that lacks — in large part because of its tinny percussion — urgency and bite.