Sentences with phrase «emotional beats hit»

The emotional beats hit home more strongly, too, with Sean Connery impressing both comedically and tragically (he won a deserved Best Supporting Oscar for the film), and the various losses on the squad feeling much more meaningful than the similar losses do in Gangster Squad.

It eliminates anything feeling forced or contrived, with all the emotional beats hitting just the right notes.

Not exact matches

Wanuri Kahiu's sophomore feature is just good enough to give its modest intentions a historic purpose, bringing fresh context to an old formula while hitting the expected emotional beats.

Castle was never an award - winning, hard - hitting drama, but it hit so many emotional beats and showed characters with true resonance and growth.

Because despite various emotional beats often (but not always) hitting their mark, it's impossible to avoid the (knowing?)

It is a shame that these enticing qualities falter once the film hits its third and final act, where it endeavours to hit more emotional beats than it needs.

The expected nature of these beats makes the film less surprising, and thus makes the story less engaging — and that leaves less room for its final emotional beats to hit home.

In particular, violence is meted out with little to no repercussion — Cooverman is beaten repeatedly, falls from a roof, is hit by a car and keeps a-going — creating a cartoonish atmosphere that obstructs any genuine emotional momentum the filmmakers might want.

Rom - coms may be formulaic, hitting specific story, character, and emotional beats with utter and complete predictability, but for some (possibly many) moviegoers there's value, maybe even comfort, in that predictability.

If This Is Us were a series specifically focused on Kate, her emotional needs and desire to have other people notice her for who she is could flower; as it stands, those story beats are mostly hit by having her hang out with Toby.

While it hits many of the same emotional and story beats of the original — this time Dory is the one looking for her parents, leaving Marlin (Albert Brooks) to track her down to a fish rehabilitation center in California — this clever sequel delivers enough memory - loss gags, light parental trauma, and show - stopping, Fast and Furious - style set pieces to keep adults entertained and kids enthralled.

Whilst Diederik Ebbinge's dramedy hits some strong emotional beats, its adherence to overly broad thematic arcs lessens its impact.

Banned in its native country ahead of its Cannes premiere, Wanuri Kahiu's sophomore feature is just good enough to give its modest intentions a historic purpose, bringing fresh context to an old formula while hitting the expected emotional beats.

Wreck - It Ralph hits all the emotional and narrative beats from Screenwriting 101, but it does it so skilfully that the film never feels predictable.

These recreational movies generally hit generic action, comedic and emotional beats.

, because while juvenile - Kutcherisms abound in each episode, it's Colt who consistently gets the hardest - hitting emotional beats — and Kutcher sells it every time.

What Richard Loncraine manages here, though, is a film that moves at the right pace and hits the right emotional beats.

The film hits all of the right emotional beats to make this one heck of a ride.

It hits all the right emotional beats exactly on cue, almost to the point of tedium.

Interacting with Ignis, Prompto and Gladio over the course of several dozen hours — whether it be camping out in the wilderness or driving through the countryside in the Regalia — has a way of endearing each character to the player so that when the game's key emotional beats start to fall in Final Fantasy XV's second half, they manage to hit home in spite of everything.