Sentences with phrase «compelling character studies»

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A densely woven web of compelling character studies and larger systemic concerns, Villeneuve and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's bleaker, more jaundiced riposte to Steven Soderbergh's 2000 «Traffic» may prove too grim and grisly for some audiences and too morally ambiguous for others.

It is instead a dense and compelling character study of an innovator whose determination to change the world with products led him to spurn many of the closest people in his life.

As well as providing a fascinating insight into the traditions and everyday life of the people within the area, Menashe is also a compelling character study.

Though well executed and never unnecessarily indulgent, these are moments that could have been spent better shaping Diana's character and thus create a more compelling character study.

Consequently, both his enduring relationship with Sarah and his barely - tolerated presence in Israel combine to create a complicated and compelling character study.

But when the fists and roundhouse kicks aren't flying, there's lots of down time in «Wild Card,» during which the film tries to make a compelling character study out of Escalante (here rechristened Nick Wild), a compulsive personality drawn equally to the blackjack table and to sob - story underdogs in need of a helping hand.

While Allen productions are typically renowned for their fine ensembles, this one streamlines, creating a compelling character study from a principal cast of just three distinct parts.

The film might've been a compelling character study, but the script lacks substance.

A compelling character study of a likable do - gooder whose only regret is that he has but one life to devote to his fellow man.

Not exact matches

Overall this film is an interesting character study, but it kind of drags and it's mainly the stellar performances that keep it going and almost make up for it not being that compelling.

Part gentle comedy, part perceptive, Cassavetian blue - collar character study, it's also tellingly poignant despite it's shaggy - dog style structure fair riveted together by Buscemi's compelling central performance.

Certainly the subject iself is compelling enough: A few years back, Russian master Alexander Sokurov examined the same transitional moment from the perspective of Hirohito himself in «The Sun,» resulting in one of the decade's most psychologically rich character studies.

Documentary Showcase Presented by 500 Walnut: Comprising the best in documentary filmmaking, these compelling films feature everything from stirring character studies to fascinating looks at current global issues.

Yet Wright has found an untapped wellspring, using Anthony McCarten's sometimes overweeningly clever script to beat a propulsive path through familiar material, giving us both a compelling process movie, full of speech and spittle, and an arresting little character study.

Though infused with a number of thrillerish elements, the film is ultimately a character study revolving around Mortensen's Nikolai Luzhin - which, thanks primarily to Mortensen's astounding work, ensures that the whole thing is always quite interesting (if not quite consistently compelling).

The two - part, four - hour HBO miniseries «Olive Kitteridge» transforms Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel into a compelling study of a stubbornly unsentimental character and a longtime marriage.

It's not an overly compelling track, especially for a film this studied, but he points out what he needs to point out and assigns proper credit to Bass's contribution to the shower scene as well as to Perkins's work in developing the idiosyncrasies of Norman's character.

Thanks to a strong lead performance by Jim Broadbent, this dual - narrative character study compels even as it takes its time to lay out and unravel its far from breathtaking mystery.

This is familiar territory for Werner Herzog — a compelling crime drama and intriguing character study rolled into one.

Bittersweet and lighthearted, fantastical and mundane, it's as compelling as any the character studies of Takahata, and the story's biggest question becomes irrelevant long before the Wolf's final, most poignant words.

«Shifting smoothly from Heloise's past to her present, Lippman delivers an intense character study about a strong, complex woman whose love for her son compels her to make some desperate choices.»