Sentences with phrase «effective moments»

In its most effective moments, this is a movie that possesses an intimate understanding of the circumstances of caring for someone with a critical illness.

Also, there are profoundly effective moments when we share in the joy and nostalgia that each of these characters feels for their old culture and lost youth.

Therefore, there are several effective moments that stick in your memory for a long time after the end credits roll.

A scene where she sends her team through a series of rigorous practice drills provides the film's most effective moments.

The most effective moments of «The BFG» are the ones that hit home with wistful emotion but surprise with the possibilities of magic in connections - those moments that Spielberg and Dahl have defined for a generation.

The PM did not enjoy that - and it may have been Mr Blackford's most effective moment at PMQs since assuming the SNP's Westminster leadership.

-- «The film's most effective moments come when left - of - center experts describe how they abandoned their previous climate change positions.

As directed by music - video alum Mary Lambert (Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, Halloweentown II), reportedly filling in for George Romero, it's not the most stylish piece (certainly leagues below the likes of other King adaptation helmers Stanley Kubrick and Brian De Palma), but there are enough effective moments at regular enough intervals to keep the movie from being boring.

The only effective moment of human vulnerability is used for comic relief, when Woodcock and Alma mercilessly undress a corpulent, middle - aged drunk who disgraces his green Margo Channing gown.

This is a workmanlike erotic thriller with some tension and a fair few effective moments but not many surprises.

Our state government's most effective moments over the past 15 months were spent undoing past missteps, like battling the MTA tax and finally approving marriage equality.

Case in point: «Instagram,» Price explains, «has created code that deliberately holds back on showing users new «likes» so that it can deliver a bunch of them in a sudden rush at the most effective moment possible — meaning the moment at which seeing new likes will discourage you from closing the app.»

One particularly effective moment occurs when Tracy scores drugs for Jonny at the Cabramatta train station.

That said, there are a few grimly effective moments that reveal the way dysfunction feeds on itself when life's options seem hopelessly curtailed.

There are extremely effective moments: Will Patton's grizzled backwoods loner relating a dream wherein he looks into his bathroom mirror to find someone else staring back (powerful in a way that a similar conceit in Vanilla Sky just isn't) as well as the trailer - revealed conversation between John and the mothman spring immediately to mind.

It's no surprise that the least effective moments of Clouds of Sils Maria are the ones that seem most overly designed, like a Valentine's disorienting, boozy late - night drive up a mountain road, woozy with superimpositions, or a tone - deaf parody of a Hollywood superhero movie, a mess of handheld camerawork and references to characters named» Dr. Pretorius» and» Scarlet Witch.»

Third remake of the now very familiar Invasion of the Body Snatchers storyline, this one is set in an Army base camp and has some pretty effective moments.

Throw in a proactive thread for Tink's friends to follow and some truly effective moments of flight, and you have a film that stands up pretty well to all of the preconceived notions inevitably thrown at it.

It trades the self - important barking of most CIA - thrillers for quietly effective moments and gives up predictable action setpieces in favor of striking period piece intricacies.

One or two effective moments aside though, the movie's biggest problem is that at what should have been moments of foreboding becomes boredom.

It's all shadows and strobes, the film's most effective moment shot in a club where Maria is revealed in flashes.

Eventually, he does contact NASA (with an ingenious form of communication using only a still camera), and Damon's most effective moment comes as he watches some text come across a screen — the overwhelming feeling of knowing that he is actually communicating with another human being after months of being alone.

Paranormal Activity 4 Directed by: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman Rating: Not Yet Rated Release Date: October 19, 2012 TRAILER SCORE: 6/10 Thoughts by TSR: All the Paranormal Activity films have enough effective moments to keep me coming back every October.

These are really the only effective moments of «Me and Earl», which lacks the power and insight of last year's entry in the Teen Dying of Cancer genre — «The Fault in Our Stars».

The most effective moments in Ron Howard's The Missing concern Cate Blanchett's face.

Cinephiles will also notice homages to some directorial greats - such as Kubrickian and Hitchcockian technique for creating intense and effective moments of horror and suspense, respectively.

And the film definitely has effective moments, especially those dealing with grief and the rough transition from military to civilian life.

Guy Pearce also pops up as Peter Weyland for a few brief but effective moments.

I don't want to go into detail but his scenes with Diana were some of the film's most creative and effective moments.

And there are a couple of effective moments: an early scene, in which we see an advancing «army» (about four men to be honest) of zombies in the WW1 trenches is well done, and it's a shame Halperin didn't concentrate on this aspect of the story — had he done so he would have beaten the first horror movies (to my knowledge) to be set in the Trenches by some sixty years.

While there's little doubt that Let's Go to Prison has its share of effective moments - most of which come courtesy of star Will Arnett - the film's flawed premise and underlying vibe of weirdness ultimately prevents it from becoming anything more than a sporadically amusing time - waster.

The film's obligatory seance scene, which could have been rehashed from past horror films, is given a unique twist and makes for one of the movie's most effective moments.

Freeman and Ken Stott shine brightest, both delivering brief but effective moments to genuinely tug at the heartstrings.

The film's most effective moments, though, come when the veil of Elvis, the performer, is shed for Elvis, the kid from Tupelo, Mississippi, and Memphis who grew up keenly aware of the pain of other people and now wishes someone would recognize it in him.

While there are some effective moments, the movie often becomes downright embarrassing.

Every scene is an effective moment that hits its mark and moves on.

There are some effective moments involving family and relationship dynamics that feel authentic and aren't over-done, and they allow for this third installment to have a much more fun and consistently positive tone than «KFP2».

The film has some effective moments but I felt the inability to get lost in the material as it's constantly reminds us just how much of an independent film it is.

Beautiful movie with some effective moments but in the end it seems very badly written.

Despite some effective moments, Funny Games remains an ersatz nightmare, a pedant's lecture on sadism, and an intellectual's idea of a shock tactic.

It's a small but effective moment, deliberately undercut by the knowledge that the visual power attributed to Mary is about to fade.

Chastity and Ryan inform you why it is actually one for the followers, record the most effective moments and team - ups, and provides their predictions for Avengers four!