Sentences with phrase «central romance»

Does it have a good central romance?

Much more engaging and less tonally punishing than Feed the Beast, but in no way as lively and clever as Kitchen Confidential... Sweetbitter is occasionally pleasant, but impossibly slight and stuck with a real dud of an over-teased central romance.

The film is not always successful, as director Jean - Marc Vallée generally prioritises flair over feeling, though a committed and engaging central romance kept lively by screenwriter Julian Fellowes pulls the story on through.

The central romance between Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is beautiful because instead of a happy ending, it concludes with sacrifice.

Smartly, the film grounds itself in the central romance between Dodge and his neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley).

The central romance between Marco and Gina is only hinted at, and the ending on these grounds is surprising: as with Casablanca, their romance is not so much consummated as left hanging on an uncertain, slightly bittersweet note.

The film becomes too enamoured with Calvin, the central romance story and the film's overall whimsy and cuteness.

If only he had kept the central romance more organic.

Similarly, the film suffers from a common problem in biopics that span more than 50 years, in that the editing suddenly leaps forward to another time period, just as things are getting interesting — this is particularly frustrating in the depiction of the central romance, but it also short - changes the sequences set during the AIDS crisis.

Though that may seem like a no - brainer considering its central romance, the BDSM angle makes it a hard sell for anyone that hasn't read the books or doesn't find pain in the bedroom particularly romantic.

So while the subdued emotions of the central romance fail to live up to Giroux's arresting visual technique, the film delivers unexpected last - gasp intrigue in the doomed marriage that started it all.

Under the auspices of writer - director Ryan Coogler, Jordan's director in Fruitvale Station, Creed reclaims the blackness of a franchise originally framed through the prism of The Great White Hope, with genuine depictions of inner - city Philly and a central romance between Adonis and Bianca (Tessa Thompson, terrific until relegated to being a spectator).

Like the film's central romance itself, I suppose — or like the dark secrets behind the creation of the House of Woodcock's signature designs.

His job is even more difficult than Hawkins», buried under a mountain of makeup and prosthetics as he is, but he generates an astounding range of emotions that makes him an equal part of the central romance.

Whether it's their dreary exposition or the fact that del Toro is just more interested in the central romance, they drag the movie down.

It's beautiful to look at, its caricatures somehow work for me, and I find its central romance, a story of two creatures who are so totally unlike one another that they somehow are the same, moving.

Unfortunately for the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, a solid cast, good director and unique premise only help to expose the inherent weaknesses of the source novel - leaving this film (like its central romance) doomed from the start.

In the first of those plot markers, the movie turns domestic abuse into a cheap development that really only exists to put the central romance in brief peril.

Issues about knowledge versus religion, acceptance versus hate, or most importantly fate vs. free will are all tossed out there, only to have their surfaces skimmed in deference to the central romance plot.

For one, in a strange way, the central romance is even stronger than most, because we were introduced to it at such a broken level.

But there are many surreal pleasures to be found in it, and the central romance between Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern burns a hole in the screen.

Though not lacking in talent or feeling, the film suffers from an uneven distribution of focus and relies too much on its central romance to wrangle the viewer's emotions.

Thus, in incredibly awkward fashion, is born the movie's central romance.

The most egregious failure of the movie is the handling of the central romance between Carell and Knightley, which does not convince.

«Fool's Gold is about more than the central romance.

For example, this category would include Women's Fiction novels and other mainstream fiction that does not fit neatly into any other romance category because of their genre - specific content, but whose storyline would lack cohesion upon removal of the central romance.