Sentences with phrase «characters run a gamut»

It helps that the characters run a gamut in age and gender.

The cast of characters run the gamut from «weed evangelist» to «loosie goosie hippy rich guy», and seem a perfect fit for Rockstar's particular brand of humor.

Not exact matches

With shadowy, black - and - white production, a slow - burning jazz soundtrack, and a wide ensemble of characters that runs the gamut of crime movie archetypes, Dick Hopper serves as a love letter to film noir, even as it skewers the genre with no mercy.

Francis Ford Coppola's gang film is as moony about death as «One From the Heart» was over romance; the film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.

Although the three lead actors are all working under serious impediments — Travolta has been equipped with a singularly ridiculous soul patch and a Boston accent that runs the gamut from non-existent to «SNL» sketch broadness, oftentimes in the same scene, Plummer has a role that all but insists on being played in the hammiest manner imaginable and Sheridan (whose previous films have included such better projects as «The Tree of Life,» «Mud» and «Joe») is playing a contrivance instead of a character — they are not without a certain innate charm, and indeed, the best scenes here are the ones in which they are simply allowed to interact and bounce off of each other in a relaxed manner before having to return to the mechanics of the increasingly forced plot.

The scenes run the gamut from skillful (a ghost story told by one of the townsmen) to cringeworthy (Ivy shouting in the woods about love — a scene that the director thought inconceivable to cut) to short and unimportant (Adrien Brody's character defacing decorations).

Blue Ruin The characters in Blue Ruin run the gamut of how much the past has affected them.

Completely convincing, he brings an authenticity and genuineness to his character, in this most challenging of roles, as he runs the gamut of human emotions.

What most consistently keeps our attention, though, is Rodriguez» cast of colorful stock characters, which runs the gamut from the vengeful mariachi to the CIA agent playing every side to the career rat of a presidential assistant to the retired G - man looking to settle an old score to Mickey Rourke.

The best of these works frequently underscore darker moments, running the gamut from a bombing and a book - burning to schoolyard bullying, but do so without criticizing the characters nor the conditions of the societies which shaped them.

In the past few days (since I finished said manuscript), in no particular order, I've run the gamut of these emotions about the characters I just bid adieu to.

These toys run the gamut from iconic characters such as Mario, Link and Samus to fan favorites like Ryu from Street Fighter and Cloud from Final Fantasy.

Between easy - to - execute combos, cinematic cut - ins on «Lethal Blaze» attacks that run the gamut from awe - inspiring to adorable, and assist mechanics that allow for up to six on - screen characters at a time, the development team at EXAMU ensures that combat in Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel stays fast and flashy.

Between the easy - to - execute combos, cinematic cut - ins on «Lethal Blaze» attacks that run the gamut from awe - inspiring to adorable, and assist mechanics that allow for up to six onscreen characters at a time, the development team at EXAMU — best known for their work on the popular Arcana Heart series — ensures that combat stays fast and flashy.

With easy - to - execute combos, cinematic cut - ins on «Lethal Blaze» attacks that run the gamut from awe - inspiring to adorable, and assist mechanics that allow for up to six on - screen characters at a time, combat in

Between easy - to - execute combos, cinematic cut - ins on «Lethal Blaze» attacks that run the gamut from awe - inspiring to adorable, and assist mechanics that allow for up to six onscreen characters at a time, the development team at EXAMU — best known for their work on the popular Arcana Heart series — ensures that combat stays fast and flashy.

With easy - to - execute combos, cinematic cut - ins on «Lethal Blaze» attacks that run the gamut from awe - inspiring to adorable, and assist mechanics that allow for up to six on - screen characters at a time, combat in Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel is guaranteed to stay fast and flashy.

Featuring eight painters — four from L.A. and four from New York — the exhibition runs the gamut of current artistic styles, from Heather Gwen Martin's 2015 abstraction of figurative forms, titledCousins, to the hyper - realism of Marc Dennis» art historical pastiche Ironman, Captain America and a Russian Mobster Walk Into a Bar, which humorously constructs a new scenario for these three characters and Edouard Manet's famous painting A Bar at the Folies - Bergère.

Inside, extensive built - ins run the gamut: A booth tucked into the kitchen accommodates casual meals; a living room alcove invites chess matches on Bethany's grandfather's game table; cupboards, bunk beds, and bookshelves stash the clutter of a busy life and give the new construction character.