Sentences with phrase «at flawed characters»

Instead of the glossy, wisecracking polished tone they established in their Avengers movies, the shows offer gritty, dark looks at flawed characters that are barely super or heroes.

Not exact matches

And yet, with breathtaking cluelessness, TIME framed the millennials» desperate search for stable work as a privileged character flaw — look at the kids too flaky to handle «choosing from a huge array of career options.»

In Charlotte Simmons, one finds all the features that have made Wolfe one of the greatest contemporary North American novelists: a plot that drives at breakneck speed through a major culture - shaping institution, an array of flawed yet yearning characters tested to the limits of their endurance, and startlingly authentic dialogue.

... Many people expected evangelicals would forget about the issues and vote only on the character flaws of the two candidates, if they voted at all.

A more negative assessment is likely to contain reference to character flaws that inhibited his leadership credentials, his weak regulation of the City, the sell - off of the nation's gold reserves at the bottom of the market, and of course his electoral defeat in 2010.

«I look at the two major party candidates and I see flawed individuals — flawed in terms of public character, flawed in terms of commitments to ideas and principles that will bring growth and pride to our great state....

For those women out there trying to get a younger male companion will at first need to create a list of their own character flaws, quirky aspects and negatives.

It's not low - brow comedy or slapstick at all, but a very well - written and acted show, which slowly makes you really love the characters, mostly for their flaws.

Its ambition is admirable: It wants to be an adult thriller like its director's justly famous «Three Days of the Condor,» with political and psychological reverberations, on real - world topics, with a reasonable cause - effect dynamic at play, clear motives, action plausible and not overdone, free of computer effects, full of recognizable, compellingly flawed characters, yet taut and gripping to an astonishing end.

In «Fargo,» Thornton's character was pure evil, but in Goliath he's just flawed — despicable at times, but with a good heart that shows often as he pursues justice against his old law firm and partner.

I like her films (The Taste of Others and Look at Me) and their screenplays for the way they embrace and acknowledge the vulnerabilities, the weaknesses, the flaws of their characters without trying to apologize for them, simply recognizing that they are part of the package.

Anchored by truly great performances by Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby and Sarah Silverman, the deeply flawed characters in «Take This Waltz» can be ugly and irredeemable, but as blemished as the picture is at times — questionable cinematic choices are made on top of morally questionable ones — it's boldly real, achingly raw and intimate in a way that's rarely seen onscreen.

Director Brad Bird, best known for helming animated projects at Pixar like Ratatouille and The Incredibles knows how to make fantastical situations more interesting by allowing his characters to derive humor from their flaws.

But perhaps its biggest flaw is that it hints at the fate of its main character far too early, dulling what would have otherwise been a very cool final act.

Gleeson and especially Robbie excel at capturing these interesting, flawed characters; their motivations seem clear whether doing the right thing by each other and their child or even some very wrong things.

16 Rather than embracing the possibility of meeting at a level of mutual understanding, nameless characters engage in flawed communications by resorting to verbal abuse or by ignoring each other altogether within the confines of an equally nameless city.

The other major flaw of the movie is that you do not care at all for the characters.

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, until at times Curtis seems to be working from a checklist of obligatory movie love situations and doesn't want to leave anything out.

Another flaw is that four of the actresses spend much of the film wearing the identical bridesmaid's dress, which makes it difficult at times to keep the characters straight.

Cooper is an old hand at creating individual scenes that evoke characters» flaws and emotional backstories through a minimum of words and gestures, but the bigger picture seems to elude him.

It's certainly not the perfect option for that, having been subject to all sorts of criticism from its treatment of race relations to its arguable redemption arc for arguably its most despicable character to its stereotypical look at small town America (a movie made by an Irish director about the flaws of America seems like it could get an extra boost from a voting body like the HFPA).

There isn't a moment, either, when Weiner comes clean about his duplicitous acts or admits some sort of deep character flaw: He simply expects you to take him at face value and let his work — not his personal dalliances — define him.

It's either that, or the Melfi would rather attempt to show how clever he is in cleaning up the apparent flaws in the robbery, instead of creating characters who are at least consistent in their capacity to pull off a heist worth more than $ 2 million.

This downer of an indie holds interest with its characters, but outlandish, inconsistent accents and other flaws keep us at bay and from enjoying this in whatever way intended.

Metacritic is deeply flawed in my opinion and at the same time it isn't because it represents the nature of man and the differing nature of opinions as well as the more notorious elements of our character such a desire for attention, to profit and our obsession with review scores!

If there were a flaw to his performance, or rather written character as Cranston is not responsible for, it is that he never really struggles internally with the matters at hand.

While a character like Halley is deeply immature, her fight at the centre of this crisis and her desire to provide a decent living space for her daughter is why we're never detached from this flawed character, but share deep empathy with her struggles.

At my recent screening of Mistress America, five people walked out within the first twenty minutes, apparently put off by hilariously flawed characters who talk to themselves, but at each other, without mercAt my recent screening of Mistress America, five people walked out within the first twenty minutes, apparently put off by hilariously flawed characters who talk to themselves, but at each other, without mercat each other, without mercy.

The movie has its share of flaws, but can very well be the best adaptation of the character that any cast and crew can pull off at the moment.

«It can be a fragile, flawed person, but if they have enough dimension, and depth that you understand them even at their weakest, that's a strong character to me.

It can sometimes be too easy to stereotype at - risk students, blaming their under - performance on some flawed character trait, as opposed to fostering a deeper understanding of their daily lives.

A master at building flawed characters, Mitchell emphasizes Scarlett's business smarts and adaptability, not just her feminine wiles and ruthlessness, as she emerges from the Civil War as a woman uniquely suited to thrive among the wreckage.

Likable doesn't mean without flaws, nor does it erase differences in motivations and perspectives, so (as in life) likable characters can still be at odds with one another, to generate the tension in a novel.

Her female characters are strong, smart, flawed and never the same at the end of the story as they were at the beginning.

- Library Journal «Certain bits of information occasionally feel deliberately withheld for dramatic effect (though they are eventually revealed), and Eva's superstar status at the end of the story feels like a little bit of a stretch, but Eva herself is a compelling, deliciously flawed character.»

The Dry felt like real life - flawed characters whose lives either end or go on, but skillfully managing to present a bit of hope for the future at its conclusion.

Every word matters in that book; Haruf's language is taut and carefully considered, the story so lovely, the characters so human and flawed all at once, that you want to hold them close long after the book has ended.

Of course this doesn't necessarily absolve them of guilt but we at least begin to understand their actions and see the characters for who they are — flawed human beings.

The only real, impacting flaw I could think of, is that Sohei is almost a background character at times.

In 2013 we saw a major part of Xenoblade Chronicles X featuring one of the games characters walking toward his mech, at the time this looked pretty good though was notably flawed, watching the same scene we saw at E3 2013 now it is evident how much an upgrade the game has had graphically.

He takes position of Captain of a warship suddenly, has responsibility thrust upon him, but just nods away — at no point does he have any real character flaws, and at no point does he seem to show any emotion.

In the case of the whistleblower Assange, his abundant character flaws could very well prove to be his own and his organization's undoing (regular folks like their political revolutionaries Nelson Mandela — saintly or not at all).

And yet trying to find the moral fault or character flaw in your partner is ultimately ineffective because the only way you can win this argument is at the expense of valuing and respecting your partner.