Sentences with phrase «compelling little drama»

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There is very little that compels us about this vision that is chiefly attributed to screenwriter Jason Fuchs (a contributor to Ice Age: Continental Drift) and director Joe Wright, a Brit who comes to this project having primarily made costume dramas like Atonement, 2012's Anna Karenina, and 2005's Pride & Prejudice.

Courtney Balaker's «Little Pink House» is a compelling drama based on the true story of Susette Kelo (Catherine Keener), a nurse who isn't looking for anything bigger than a quiet life in the pink cottage she renovated herself in a decidedly unglamorous part of New London, Connecticut.

His earlier films are both gritty and introspective, and seem nothing at all like Kwaidan: one of Kobayashi's most compelling early films is the brutal baseball noir drama I Will Buy You (Anata kaimasu, 1956), in which a young player rises to the top of Japanese professional baseball, revealed to be little more than a racket.

Albert Nobbs - Nice for Glenn Close to have finally gotten this reasonably compelling gender - bending period drama made, but there is a little less to it than you suspect.

Is The Last Jedi «s production a little too seamless at times to make for compelling drama?

However, there's little compelling about the drama in regards to «Brad's Status.»

Psychokinesis isn't quite that dramatic in its early goings — in fact, it's rather silly for long stretches — but by its final half - hour, the drama has been set up quite well, and the payoff when Seok - hyeon finally unleashes his full set of powers to save his little girl is compelling.