Sentences with phrase «bleak look»

A dark, disturbing, and almost overbearingly bleak look at a drifter in England who crashes at his ex-girlfriend's flat to escape those that will be after him after he commits a heinous act.

Directed with the usual dark and bleak look of Zack Snyder films like last year's fan disappointment Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new movie fails to find the fun in all of this and ranks as a setback for the genre after three previous winners this year: Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming and the current Thor: Ragnarok.

If this was just simply a block buster or other puzzle game with a very basic premise that would be fine, but the minute you add a story you start wanting to see something more than badly drawn monsters and pretty bleak looking backdrops.

It is a vile, bleak look at the human condition.

Ricky O'Donnell and Jason Patt from SB Nation, Blog a Bull, and FanRag Sports return for a bleak look at Chicago's fortunes this year.

(Disclaimer: I'm not suggesting that if you don't always dress up a casual and basic look that you are bleak looking!

Shot on the actual island, the film has a washed out and bleak look that obviously mimics its location in the foggy and cold bay area.

The cast is outstanding as far as names go, but most of them remain somewhat underchallenged thanks to the (intentionally) bleak look and pace of the film.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.»

No glamorized games here, just a bleak look at a bleak story of a woman trying to crawl her way up from a life of limited options.

Just in time for the holidays, a bleak look at desperation, blood ties, masculinity and loyalty.

Part of the appeal when Deadlight was originally shown off was how lonely and bleak it looked.

Rather, it's a bleaker look at the consequences of American policy (or the lack thereof), from the way in which the U.S. flaunts Germany's privacy laws to the way in which doles out «justice»: Do those who adapt the tactics of their enemies in order to defeat them not run the risk of becoming the very thing they fought against?

It's a pretty mature story about the nature of war, and a bleak look at its effects on the people who wage it.

The bleak look reminds of the Metropolis (1927) set, and also makes President Snow's (Donald Sutherland) vivid white wardrobe and beard stand in contrast to rest.

It's a bleak looking production, but considering the subject matter, appropriately so.

Warner Home Video's Blu - Ray looks amazingly sharp and not grainy, considering the bleak look of the film.

Providing a case in point, Jackson cites a recent report from the Schott Foundation, «A Rotting Apple: Education Redlining in New York City,» which offers a bleak look at the disparate educational opportunities available to students in different NYC school districts, and points to solutions that would ensure an opportunity to learn for every student in New York.

The bleak looking interior and monotone LCD screen did nothing to detract attention from the lifeless four - speed automatic gearbox featured in Omega and Berlina variants.

The metro tunnels look amazing, but it's when you clamber out onto the surface where the game really gets to flex its metaphorical muscles with environments that are both a bleak look at a ruined world and at the same time breathtakingly beautiful with vast vistas of destroyed cities.

A SUDA51 Trip — Set in the «Kill the Past» universe, the series continues its bleak look into a semi-futuristic world on the edge of collapse and the misfits and antiheroes that inhabit it.

The study presents a bleak look at international efforts to prevent global warming while it questions the accounting used to tally emissions to meet climate treaties.