Sentences with phrase «brooding drama»

Director and writer, Kenneth Lonergan, has a background as a playwright so I shouldn't be surprised that brooding drama and interpersonal look into the story's character's make for something more than the basic film drama.

The Levelling review: Hope Dickson Leach makes her feature directorial debut with this slow - burning, finely - crafted, brooding drama with Ellie Kendrick and David Troughton.

As Alma gets into the habit of bugging Reynolds while he's in the midst of his designs, or tossing out the last word of every snippy argument, «Phantom Thread» goes through that miraculous transformation of genres as only a PTA movie can: It shifts from brooding drama to comedy.

The $ 14 million, eight - part psychological thriller has already been hailed as Tasmania's answer to Twin Peaks, but more contemporary comparisons to the Top Of The Lake and the recent revival of The X-Files should give TV noir fans an idea of the dark and brooding drama that awaits.

Once the movie stops being a whimsical comedy about a troupe of misfit musicians, it starts to take itself a little too seriously and all of a sudden the xylophone stops and the brooding drama starts.

Out of the Furnace is a brooding drama that builds to a thrilling finale.

In the top categories (picture, acting, writing, direction) the leader was Clint Eastwood's brooding drama «Mystic River,» with six nominations, including Penn, Tim Robbins and Marcia Gay Harden.

The movie itself is a sleek, brooding drama with a more complicated and ambiguous sense of methods and tactics than the usual shoot -»em - up.

Firstly, FX, the maverick Fox spin - off network behind brooding dramas such as Justified and Sons Of Anarchy, would be making it.

Not exact matches

Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and other financial institutions began tapping psychologists around 2007 to help high - net - worth broods navigate interpersonal dramas, which often wind up with plaintiffs and defendants bleeding money.

But our columnist says that what's brooding at the heart of this undead drama really is true.

Peter Strickland's claustrophobic homage to the Italian giallo — in which diabolical dismemberings are perpetrated upon female innocents - would seem an odd leap from Katalin Varga, his brooding revenge drama set in rural Romania.

The drawback is that Kunis never seems to actually buy into the mythos and world that were supposed to come out of all the green screen and CGI work; Tatum, by comparison, seems to be deep into a drama that feels out of place in a big popcorn film, and his character has little humor or charm underneath the brooding, gruff attitude, campy facial prosthetics and drag - style makeup work.

Ace Chilean director Pablo Larraín delivers a brooding and provocative drama about disgraced priests.

Robin Campillo's brooding, exquisitely controlled drama of migrant sex work refuses any one interpretation

Instead, the movie plays like an inept domestic drama as two New England couples rail, brood, drink, and cross-fuck through the final acts of their unhappy marriages.

He gives a towering, brooding, Oscar - winning performance in a film that has many merits as a piece of historical re-enactment but lacks drama and emotional pull.

One does not have to think hard to line up a lengthy list of small - budget comedies and dramas whose primary narrative thrust revolves around the trials and tribulations of a dysfunctional brood.

As the film reaches its darkest point, he is finally in his comfort zone of brooding, gritty drama.

The darkly atmospheric and brooding psychological romance drama Rebecca (1940) is Alfred Hitchcock's first American project...

As the premise suggests, the film is a fiercely dark drama, brooding from beginning to end.

Bleak and brooding, The Levelling is a finely - crafted masterclass in low - key but extremely affecting, quality, character - driven drama, much worthy of your attention.

With a similar precision to the sharp blade seen in the film's opening moments (helping create one of the most arresting depictions of equine violence since The Godfather), Thoroughbreds immediately announces its arrival into the annals of teen angst dramas, playing out as a brooding bildungsroman of female friendship and murderous pacts that translates as...

It's almost unheard of for a Marvel movie to get a screenplay nomination (though «Black Panther» may manage it next year), and it's a tribute to the risks Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green took in bringing this brooding, melancholy, almost despairing «X-Men» movie as close to authentic drama as they could.