Sentences with phrase «at absorbing the story»

In «What Remains of Edith Finch», input is very subtle, doesn't divide your attention, and instead your mind is working away a lot more at absorbing the story and wonder, kind of like a book brought to life that players control and navigate.

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My mothers tomatoes or a neighbors zucchinis were a different story — because most of what we buy at the stores is covered with pesticides that of course get somewhat absorbed, so washing the surface is a false sense of security.

Director Curtis Hanson... keeps a complex story coherent and absorbing — if bloody at the end.

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

The story may be bleak at times, but it's ultimately powerful and absorbing, and Rees presents the racism of the era as both routine and heartbreaking.

Critics Consensus: The Shape of Water finds Guillermo del Toro at his visually distinctive best — and matched by an emotionally absorbing story brought to life by a stellar Sally Hawkins performance.

HIMALAYA (Grade: B +): This French - Nepalese mountain drama — about a generational power struggle in a Tibetan tribe — is an absorbing political story, a rousing outdoor adventure and a precious look at a remote, dying culture.

At once a star vehicle perfectly suited to Jessica Chastain (if you forgive a few chapters that forget her entirely) and a stately untold true story, the film is more absorbing than its recent biopic contemporaries.

It's always good to look at and decently acted, but somehow The Danish Girl struggles to grip as it goes on, and it's not helped by the fact that as the story develops, Lili becomes a rather self - absorbed individual.

All the parts fit together — like the hand - forged computer at the center of the story — in The Imitation Game, a thoroughly absorbing film based on the life of Alan Turing, who helped crack the notorious German enigma code during World War II.

This is a languidly paced biography that focuses on character over plot, allowing the viewer to absorb the story rather than having it trample past at breakneck speed.

But revisiting the film, I was irked less by any perceived preening desire to be «authentic» than I was absorbed by the power of its story — though the movie's one go - for - broke stab at regional poetry, a black - and - white squirrel - centric dream sequence scored to a chorus of chainsaws, still falls completely flat.

«Avengers: Infinity War»: Less of a film franchise than it is a long - form final exam after some 14 movies of homework, this hydra - headed superhero blockbuster had one truly redeeming quality for those who have not spent the last several years absorbing its story on their way to the multiplex: It was, at least, an ending.

More about sweetbreads than sweet nothings, this offbeat but absorbing Hungarian love story (the Golden Bear winner at this year's Berlin Film Festival) nimbly combines arthouse dreaminess with brutal everyday realities.

If I read it for the first time today, the cynic in me would probably brush over the story as yet another allegorical fable but, when I first read it, perhaps at the age of 10, the story just reached out and absorbed me.

Managers at the branch level have the power to reverse the DSC or somehow absorb the cost another way if they believe there was error, or if they believe that the broker's notes are insufficient to back up his story if this goes to the next level.

In it, he crunches data to explain the world, or at least random bits of the world, through graphics that — though they might intimidate those of us who prefer a good old fashioned story — are intended to be entertaining, artful and easy to absorb.

At the moment I have my base in Vilnius, Lithuania and from there I travel mostly around Europe - slowly absorbing the small details and human stories.

Though collecting items and building the perfect warrior presents an absorbing challenge that will glue you to your seat for hours at a time, Dragon Ball Xenoverse «s biggest strength is its story.

Yes, the original radiation from the earth at a given wavelength might be absorbed, but that isn't the end of the story.

The backdrop, from a Guardian story, is this: Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk, With the world's oceans absorbing six million tonnes of carbon a day, a leading oceanographer warns of eco disaster.