Sentences with phrase «build narrative momentum»

I'm usually dissatisfied with them because it's impossible to build narrative momentum in them.

A deliberately paced literary film that takes too long to build narrative momentum and explore its central dramatic conflicts.

Shifting between the three main characters in a haphazard, often bewildering manner, Kick - Ass 2 never builds any narrative momentum, feeling much more like a routine series of unrelated episodes about Life In These Trying Times.

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The 2017 lineup, which kicks off with Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, will screen a total of 131 films, including 33 narrative films, 16 documentary films and 82 shorts, most of which are already beginning to build momentum for award season.

The narrative momentum that Hugo's journey had built up evaporates, and now we are exploring why Papa Georges — as his ward, Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz: Let Me In, Kick - Ass), and Hugo's new friend, calls him — is so sad, why he won't return Hugo's little notebook full of drawings of the automaton, and what secret he is harboring of his past that he won't talk about.

It starts as an intriguing enough mystery, evolves into a suitable second - act quest; however, some third - act «twists» just derail whatever narrative momentum the story manages to build, and muddles both the mythology and character relationships developed up to that point, leaving us with an awkward ending that doesn't feel much like an ending so much as a chapter break.