Sentences with phrase «dramatic stakes»

It's also very light on deeper dramatic stakes.

«This episode carried last week's intense dramatic stakes with a welcome degree of emotional gravitas.»

«This episode carried last week's intense dramatic stakes with a welcome degree of emotional gravitas.»

Tonal shifts cause a few sequences to wobble; using the possibility of rape to up dramatic stakes during the home invasion scene is misguided and disgusting.

But while there isn't much to distinguish Born To Be Blue's dramatic stakes from any number of stories about self - destructive, self - centered artists (or «movies about jazz musicians,» as they're more commonly known), the film is given a spark of life by the inspired casting of Ethan Hawke.

Although in terms of dramatic stakes, the battle for supremacy is a bit too gentle at times.

The film's strength is dramatic stakes for its complicated, easy - to - love characters, which renders the downbeat ending genuinely audacious.

Oddly enough, last year's BATTLE OF THE SEXES, about the famous exhibition match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, had more dramatic stakes.

But maybe best of all, Trust offers a plot with significant dramatic stakes, even if the end is already a foregone conclusion.

Deathly Hallows earns its PG - 13 rating with a swell of actual dramatic stakes, as characters are killed off unexpectedly to sustain the surprise and the triangle of pubescent wizardly valor engages in furious wand shoot - outs with assassins, including a spectacular gunfight inside a London café where Harry first learns there are no safe havens in which he can hide.

In highlighting the dramatic stakes, however, the last thing we should do is ignore how personal issues like this are for many people.

No one, I think, doubts that Yogi's most oracular formula, it ain't over till it's over, is a perfectly condensed statement of what for us are the game's highest spiritual and dramatic stakes.

Inevitably, the dramatic stakes feel different; the urgency of the Aids crisis is not quite as close, though it's noted that even today more than 50 % of those making up the city's ballroom scene are HIV positive.

When Stahl's mother takes a similar escape from this world, it plunges a dramatic stake into Jerry's heroin - heavy heart.

The French director Pierre Morel's parkour exploitation lark District B13, a Luc Besson production, is a total blast, and it has absolutely no dramatic stakes.

told a story of everyday cruelty and grace between three characters, broader sociopolitical concerns serving as the backdrop and elevating the dramatic stakes.

With The Immigrant, director James Gray told a story of everyday cruelty and grace between three characters, broader sociopolitical concerns serving as the backdrop and elevating the dramatic stakes.

We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their «big» moments — ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity.

From Star Wars» opening blast of laser fire to its climactic fireball, it keeps raising the dramatic stakes, giving the impression of action even when the characters are just sitting on their backsides chatting about exhaust ports.

The film establishes just enough of a connection to these characters that the scare sequences possess some dramatic stakes, and Sandberg and Heisserer are consistent in applying the rules of the monster, while still offering enough clever variations within those rules to keep those sequences from becoming static or predictable.

The action sequences are exhilarating and inventive, the dramatic stakes are high and the huge cast of characters are expertly handled.

A curiously joyless movie that tries to channel the giddy amorality of Dr. Strangelove but forgets to add jokes or dramatic stakes, War Dogs is a major whiff from Hangover trilogy director Todd Phillips, who won't be graduating to serious material like Anchorman's Adam McKay did with The Big Short.

A brisk, witty read in its first half, Kirn's novel sags in the home stretch because the dramatic stakes appear to be so low, particularly with its protagonist sustaining no constant relationship in the course of the narrative.

With no one to truly root for in The Phantom Menace, we are at a level of distance from the dramatic stakes, even if those dramatic stakes are around trade disputes.

For all the levels on which Cobra Kai is derivative and tonally inconsistent, it absolutely delivers a more complicated set of characters and dramatic stakes than Karate Kid.

The dramatic stakes are inert, the filmmaking is hyperactive, and the movie keeps introducing characters only to shuffle them offscreen a couple of minutes later.

Based on a true story that he co-wrote, Kumail Nanjiani brings comedy, pathos, and dramatic stakes to The Big Sick as a man whose girlfriend falls into a mysterious coma.

Either way, I honestly think the action would be more involving if there were dramatic stakes.

It's clear right away that this atmospheric horror - thriller's dramatic stakes are as high as life and death.

From the opening blast of laser fire to its climactic fireball, the film keeps raising the dramatic stakes, giving the impression of action even when the characters are just sitting on their backsides chatting about exhaust ports.