Sentences with phrase «at narrative momentum»

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At the Almeida we believe what changes opinion, narrative, momentum, are words.

But I am entitled, I think, to push back at a media narrative that's been running since the conferences to say that Labour has the problem and all the momentum is with the Conservatives.

There are other issues here, ones that involve pacing and tone and narrative momentum and Bilbo's own lack of significance in a story that's allegedly all about him, but all I can think about right now, 30 minutes after exiting the theater, is how badly I need to go see it again at a reasonable 24 frames per second in regular old 2D in the hope that I can fully immerse myself into this too - long, too - repetitive saga.

At times, there's more repetition than narrative momentum.

Writer / director M. Night Shyamalan's penchant for a deliberate narrative is certainly in full effect with Unbreakable, as the movie, though consistently entertaining and occasionally engrossing, progresses at a lackadaisical pace that tends to prevent the viewer from wholeheartedly embracing the material - with the film ultimately faring better than, for example, The Sixth Sense due to its progressively absorbing narrative (ie there's a sense of forward momentum that was almost entirely absent from that earlier picture).

While this is justified from a storytelling standpoint, with Tyler's 19 - year - old Lucy arriving in Italy at the beginning of the picture and greeting her cohabitants for the summer, the film takes forever to achieve narrative momentum as a result.

The narrative does lag the slightest bit at the midpoint when Carl decides to leave LA behind for a quick trip to Miami and the script loses its focus, but as soon as he gets his hands on that food truck and he's back to being a man on a mission, the film takes off with even more momentum than before.

Her clue - gathering gains momentum and there won't be any spoilers here but a number of dicey hazards and run - ins with at least two ectoplasmic entities add to the narrative rather nicely.

But Midnight Special is a chase movie, and like all chase movies it runs the risk of losing all narrative momentum once it arrives at a destination.

Mood prevails over narrative momentum in this elliptical drama that's admirable for its vision even as it keeps its characters at a frustrating emotional distance.

The decision is, perhaps, unwise in terms of helping us to understand one the movie's most important characters, but it is, at least, smart in terms of maintaining a sense of momentum in the narrative.

At various points, the film feels like The Village, The Truman Show, and an episode of Rod Serling's «The Twilight Zone», but it just doesn't have the narrative oomph to take its momentum right to the very end.

- Library Journal «Though inventive and well crafted, the novel neither fully endears its characters to the reader nor establishes narrative momentum, playing at themes and romantic entanglements that are expertly introduced but often under - explored and discarded.

For a book which is ostensibly a chase, this does tend to halt the narrative's intended pace as frequent intervals, meaning the story loses momentum at moments where it needs to be pushing the reader forwards.

According to South African critic Amy Halliday, contemporary art from the African continent is «often either excluded from, or uncomfortably assimilated into, an overarching Western narrative:» Nicholas Hlobo, a young South African sculptor, mined this narrative for his 2008 installation at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, where his work was featured as part of the Momentum emerging artists series.

«Curry's narrative implicitly asserts violation of at least 1 of the following laws: a) conservation of angular momentum.

The ideas gain momentum only with fear and guilt at the core of the climate narrative — ramping up the fear and guilt is the only way the movement can succeed.