Not exact matches
The Wildcats
beat Wichita in one of the most
dramatic games of the tournament, and then they
beat four
more teams en route to the national title game.
While these incidents may not be as «
dramatic as being
beaten», he contends that «it's another form of violence that's
more subliminal».
When the dance is finally
beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor,
dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even
more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.
Sweet - minded and shimmering in its comedic
beats and even
more irresistible in its dive into the
dramatic elements, «20th Century Women» is one the year's most pleasant surprises.
The idea is that, should the mood strike, a performer may add a
beat mid-bar as though choked - up with emotion, their
dramatic license with the material thus extended liberally and their performance, we are told, made immeasurably better and
more real.
The
dramatic scenes are hilariously ridiculous (often unintentionally so); many of the performances feel stilted and off -
beat; and the combination of 3D visual design and an attempt to use
more on - location settings (as opposed to sound stage or green screen) results in moments that feel unusually amateurish for The Wachowskis.
There are predictable
beats, but the film throws a few curveballs and avoids several cliché moments, settling for a
more genuine
dramatic effect.
To lay my biases bare: I'm sick of Marvel's safely middle - of - the - road output, undermining every
dramatic beat with a joke, and I've always enjoyed DC comics
more than Marvel ones.
In Before Dawn I thought the generic horror / action
beats let down the
more impressive
dramatic sequences, whereas in Bait I felt it worked better as a thriller than anything else.
Ultimately, the movie needed a stronger overall structure and
more defined scenes to allow the
dramatic beats to come through the improvised dialogue
more clearly (akin to Mike Leigh, another British filmmaker, who shoots fully realized scripts built through improvisation in the rehearsal process).
The film finds
dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to
beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by
more than ten times.