Sentences with phrase «central conceit»

Loosely based on Shakespeare's «Twelfth Night,» this comedy geared to the tweener set cleverly weaves in many of the Bard's characters and keeps the play's central conceit of a girl attempting to pass as a boy.

One of the films central conceits is that it showcases it never really answers the question — accept perhaps for one brief moment when it seems clear that it is all in Riggan's head.

Dennis Bartok's sparse horror has a spooky central conceit, and just about overcomes its budgetary bumps, while Macdonald excels as the innocent.

For a movie whose central conceit revolves around the emotional spectrum, it's strangely lacking in an emotional core.

Hard sci - fi fans will also be thrilled by the film's central conceit even though most of the science is bogus.

However, I will say that I love the film's central conceit of The Pianist's Adrien Brody playing a faux - SS officer chasing down Amon Goeth from Schindler's List.

While «Ant - Man» doesn't take very long getting Paul Rudd in the incredible suit, there's a very real lack of momentum that undermines the talents of the cast and the fun of the central conceit.

The two - hour film is full of elaborations on its central conceit, all of which fit in a kind of funhouse logic.

As was also the case 12 months ago, the team's abrupt coming together did not arrive through an abandonment of their manager's principles, as some fans had come to hope for after losing faith in the central conceit of Van Gaal's approach that prioritised the system over individuals and its «boring», possession - led style of play.

The idea that everybody's genes are pretty much the same, a central conceit of the Human Genome Project, may need some revising.

The central conceit of the project, which gives it some intellectual heft and occasionally also makes it very funny, is the apparent dissonance between the characters and their worlds on the one hand and the extracts about art either voiced as dialogue or heard in voiceover, also by Blanchett (about five sources are used per school or type of art).

Whille the cast clearly enjoyed making it, Thurber can not rein them in sufficiently for their improvisations to add to the script, and he does make the very least of the central conceit.

A would - be magical romantic comedy whose execution doesn't live up to the cleverness of its central conceit.

The central conceit of The Death of Stalin is that what is funny is not always just funny.

The central conceit — that Ron must rebuild himself after the devastation of losing his job — is not as strong as the plot of the original film.

The film's central conceit is that the prisoners stand at the barred windows, flirting and sometimes conducting full - blown relationships with the inhabitants of the Najayo women's prison across the way.

Time traveling is, of course, the film's central conceit.

The central conceit (which is revealed early on)-- that Jacob Tremblay's Cody has dreams which become real while he sleeps — is one that isn't necessarily horror - centric.

As for the central conceit of the «Transformers» mythology: I can work up only so much enthusiasm for the idea of Transformers having dictated the course of human history from the Dark Ages onward.

So what you do is keep the central conceit of Sucker Punch — that the deeper you go into the layers of dreams or fantasy, the sluttier everything appears — and marry that with Inception's main premise, about a group of hot young «dream thieves» who go into people's subconscious to steal secrets or occasionally plant an idea.

That's the central conceit behind Creep, a no - budget horror movie that delivers more scares than films with 10 times more money.

But it's the only real misstep, things picking up immediately as the bunker's third inhabitant, Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), is introduced and the central conceit is presented — is Howard telling the truth (as the evidence initially suggests), or is something more sinister going on?

The central conceit — she has told him a lie about living in Germany and he begins to investigate her actual whereabouts — can seem contrived at times (how could he not find her more easily through, I don't know, Google?)

First Reformed is not a remake of Diary of a Country Priest, even if it shares with Bresson's film the central conceit of a physically sick and spiritually tormented minister of the gospel wrestling with his own conscience.

From the very outset «A Quiet Place» develops a central conceit which it fully embraces throughout its tight, lean 95 - minute runtime.

The central conceit, which sees unhappy writer Gil (Owen Wilson) magically transported to old Paris, feels fresh and funny.

It turns out that Calvin has control issues — not surprising, considering that the central conceit is a male fantasy — and, furthermore, is stuck in a groove that is not very flexible.

Check out the clever opening sequence, in which the director satisfyingly sets up the film's central conceits — a witch's curse; an epic battle of the sexes — with great comic velocity.

The title itself is extremely straightforward but points directly at the beautiful simplicity of the film's central conceit: if singing makes you feel like a million bucks, then sing goddam it.

The Shape of Water is that, certainly, a monstrous and modest example of Man - Child wish fulfillment but moreso is it something truly greater, the dazzling level of love of craft poured into each shot displaying a filmmaker working at his absolute peak, toiling from a place of pure, unchecked passion without much thought to the fact that his central conceit is wildly off - color and potentially repulsive to some, no matter how rose - colored the glasses you're looking at it through.

This is the central conceit of tonight's episode, «The Return,» in which almost every protagonist challenges the convenient narratives being fed to them and comes to accept a new and radical point of view.

The result is one of the most fearsomely original chillers of recent times, its central conceit a subtle, supple metaphor for all kinds of teenage angst, sexual trauma or any of the shadows that latch onto us when we're young, and never quite pass.

The second of three cinematic King adaptations from Frank Darabont, The Green Mile is by far the weakest of the director's efforts, too often falling into bathos, treacly sentimentality and overlong extrapolation of its central conceit.

The show's central conceit — a social media disease — is a potentially interesting (if laboured) response to our technological age, but its introduction is ironically slow to spread, spending time getting to know our dancers and their personal problems — hello, sexual blackmail — not to mention Logan's own inevitable demons.

Ferrell and McKay fill the script with quite a few pointed satirical anachronisms this time around; one of the central conceits is Burgundy's insular ratings - getting news style led to all of the bad habits that dominate news programs today.

The central conceit of «Hail, Caesar!

Years pass, and the movie loses even more of its grasp on the central conceit.

While there is much to admire in the film's dedication to its central conceit, many viewers quickly grew tired of this gimmick.

Crucial to any understanding of the central conceit of the film is a clear sense of geography and time.

The narrative may have its clunky moments, but the central conceit of the Ted Chiang short story from which it's adapted carries the movie through, as does Amy Adams» lead performance, which surprisingly reminded me of Sigourney Weaver.

I get the central conceit, separating the public personae of Bob Dylan into distinct pseudonymous characters — Christian Bale as the folksinger Dylan, Marcus Carl Franklin as the pre-fame ramblin» Dylan, Heath Ledger as the international media star Dylan, etc. — and through them exploring the myth of Dylan by converting it into mythology.

Hook's central conceit — Peter Pan as overworked yuppie — would make for a decent sketch, but all the daddy issues, sexual tension with Tinker Bell, and imaginary food fights in Neverland can't save the film's 141 - minute running time.

But in reality, it's her book and her stories, and the central conceit is just some literary flim - flammery to convince readers — and now audiences — of an authenticity that isn't remotely in evidence.

M. Night Shyamalan's name became synonymous with The Twist, as he wrapped the central conceit of The Sixth Sense in a cocoon of metaphor even as he goosed his audience with a radical revision in the last act.

The central conceit is that humans are only really good as biological filters for pollutants; in place of the batteries of The Matrix, the film sees people as distilleries for some sort of immortality potion.

It does a good job of displaying the game's central conceit: hunting and gathering ingredients in a 2D - action space before...

Unlike Gone Girl, it continues to deepen its characters and maintain a believable sense of dread that plays into its central conceit.

What Niffenegger however does with its central conceit — our time traveler hero can not control when he time jumps and for how long - is unique.

You don't have to roll with Steven Spielberg's central conceit — another movie about rescuing Matt Damon — to be knocked out by his epic mounting of WWII's 1944 Omaha Beach assault, a visually spectacular sequence that simply has no equal in cinema.