Sentences with phrase «compelling drama»

It's not the most compelling drama we'll see this summer, but the relationships are effective enough not to be overwhelmed by the spectacle.

It's that much harder to build a really compelling drama around an essentially good guy.

It got similar premise of «Who's killing who», but what differs it from other cop drama was its atmospheric tone that it had and surprisingly compelling drama.

Despite those problems, it delivers enough compelling drama to make it work.

The cast is great, and it looks to be a pretty compelling drama.

Henderson had succeeded in making compelling drama of this sometimes despised facet of the game.

Director Terry George's adaptation of the John Burnham Schwartz novel Reservation Road is a thoughtful and often compelling drama about grief, anger and revenge featuring strong lead performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo as two fathers whose lives are irrevocably linked and altered one fateful night.

Gaines» home life has the seeds of compelling drama in it.

I know that in real life people are more likely to be hanging out at the local Dariy Queen than having life - changing events, but it does not make for compelling drama.

Brize («Mademoiselle Chambon») makes compelling drama out of the most ordinary of circumstances, and draws a lead performance from frequent collaborator Vincent Lindon that is a veritable master class in understated humanism.

One faces the unenviable task of creating compelling drama for the adults while repeating and adhering to the point of view of a child.

The responsibility of turning historical overview into compelling drama falls on two accomplished actors: Mark Strong (The Imitation Game), as the UN bigwig who ordered the Irish troops to fend off attacks, and Danny Sapani (Penny Dreadful), playing Moise Tshombe, president of the State of Katanga.

Instead, even with Jim Carrey on board as an executive producer and Tom Dreesen along for the erratic ride as technical consultant, this Showtime newcomer only intermittently finds its rhythm and hits its stride as compelling drama.

A first - rate cast helps to elevate this otherwise muddled if intermittently compelling drama from French director Arnaud Desplechin (My Golden Days) that's ambitious maybe to a fault.

James Tynion IV has done remarkable work crafting compelling drama around the Bat - family with his Detective Comics run, taking cues from the Chris Claremont school of superhero storytelling to build a dense narrative featuring a big cast of characters, each with their own subplots.

That's one of the questions raised by Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a lush, grand, compelling drama set in the stultifying world of 1950s London fashion.

Critic Consensus: Z for Zachariah wrings compelling drama out of its simplistic premise — albeit at a pace that may test the patience of less contemplative viewers.

Refreshingly even handed and never lowering to gratuitous extremes, The Queen offers a very compelling drama that will leave audiences with something to talk about afterward — and even young viewers may be surprised at just how intriguing this story is.

The King's Speech is the epitome of prestige cinema, an impeccably crafted and emotionally compelling drama that deserves the many laurels it surely will receive.

Nichols is an expert filmmaker who has crafted such compelling dramas as Mud, starring Matthew McConaughey, and Take Shelter, starring Michael Shannon.

Meanwhile, Amos stumbles into an affair with Diana, which seems not only far - fetched but a silly distraction from the more compelling drama at hand.

Despite the limited setting, Haneke builds a network of tense relationships, developing compelling drama.

Critics Consensus: Z for Zachariah wrings compelling drama out of its simplistic premise — albeit at a pace that may test the patience of less contemplative viewers.

A visually arresting and wholly compelling drama, thanks to its gorgeously warm cinematography, pleasing soundtrack and impressive and convincing performances from its two male leads.

Directed by Timo Tjahjanto and Kimo Stamboel aka The Mo Brothers, with a script by the former, what they lack in original or even compelling drama in Headshot, they make up for with the film's multiple action scenes.

Niagara Motel is an overly quirky yet strangely compelling drama revolving around the lives of several characters that reside in and around a seedy Niagara Falls - based inn.

A confronting, compelling drama fuelled by the lack of easy answers.

Floria Sigismondi's 2010 compelling drama sees a breakout Dakota Fanning play Cherie Currie, the young singer who formed the eponymous 1970s rock band, alongside an unrecognisable Kristen Stewart as guitarist Joan Jett.

Otherwise Ang Lee's long, slow follow to Brokeback Mountain is a quietly compelling drama of hidden desperation and fierce passions.

If you are looking for a really compelling drama to watch, Good Kill is definitely worth checking out.

This week's new Blu - ray releases include a wonderfully compelling drama told entirely from the confines of a car, a quartet of older animated Disney films getting an HD upgrade, a new Muppet movie, and more.

After making his debut with the extraordinary indie film «George Washington,» he went on to make the equally compelling dramas «All the Real Girls,» «Undertow» and «Snow Angels» before making his unexpected mainstream breakthrough with the decidedly different stoner comedy «Pineapple Express.»

The more serious compelling drama jarringly shifts to battlefield wide - shots were poorly rendered CGI giants (The Watchers) war against the rest of humanity in a series of scenes that look like they have been pulled from The Lord of the Rings archives.

«The Returned has the potential to be one of the most compelling drama series on cable, thanks to phenomenal scripts written by Carlton and Raelle,» said A&E general manager David McKillop.

While The Railway Man is a respectable effort, it's just not quite the stuff that makes for a truly compelling drama that hasn't been done better elsewhere, save for the events of the epilogue.

Lady Macbeth is the wickedly compelling drama, recent 19th Century female led flicks failed to become.

 The actors are several local police officers, who use their experiences to create compelling dramas whilst simultaneously raising awareness on a huge variety of local community issues.

Still, «Lucky You» had seats at its table for cajoling comic charm and compelling drama about personal obsession and parental mistakes.

It sidesteps the pitfalls of Hollywood biopics and offers a candid portrait of a public figure whose private life and struggles make for compelling drama.

But even Paramount Network's upcoming miniseries Waco, starring Taylor Kitsch as cult leader David Koresh, does a better job of transforming true - crime headlines into compelling drama.

The book, written with journalist Jeffrey E. Stern, creates compelling drama by tracking the young man and the events that led to his radicalization.

The HBO series has made compelling drama from ambiguity and irresolution.

He was both suspect and likeable which makes for some very compelling drama.

It's interesting history — they became radicalized, turning to vandalism and acts of civil disobedience after 50 years of peaceful activism, and were treated like a terrorist organization by the government, which unleashed a campaign of intimidation and violence that recalls the American Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s — but filmmaker Sarah Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan fail to make compelling drama from the history lesson.

Pawel Pawlikowski's beautiful and emotionally compelling drama could very well take home the gold (though, who knows....

Before being sidetracked by a gig as South Korea's Minister of Foreign Culture, Lee Chang - dong had helmed two of his country's most compelling dramas in recent years: Peppermint Candy, a brilliant mash - up of Forrest Gump and Irréversible that's superior to both, and Oasis, which opens with a sociopath raping a disabled mute and blossoms into one of the decade's most delirious romances.

The movie's rocky, dark and unappealing start does give way to more compelling drama of conflicting personalities and clashing interests.

Kings wasn't a perfect show — and was polarizing among TV critics — but the attempt to bring the story of David and Saul to modern audiences through a compelling drama makes it one of the most unique (though largely forgotten) Old Testament adaptations ever to come out of Hollywood.

Tentatively titled The Young Pope, Sorrentino envisions a complex, compelling drama about a scandal - ridden Vatican helmed by a flawed, fictitious American pope in the vein of Tony Soprano and Walter White — so it sounds like it'll be very non-controversial and nobody will have any complaints about it at all.