Sentences with phrase «emotional beats without»

The cinematography is gorgeous as always, and the performances are pretty good across the board (particularly newcomer Ni Ni and Christian Bale as the Westerner caught in the middle of the conflict), but the real star is the story itself, which earns its emotional beats without feeling like it's pandering to the audience.

Not exact matches

When the beat of the music matches the beat of your heart, you can easily lose yourself in someone's embrace and make an emotional connection without having to say a word.
As the second half unfolds, the absence of an emotional core becomes ever more glaring, hopping from one action beat to the next without ever asking us to care — or, at times, understand — what's going on.
Tone is well balanced too as the picture's three chapters navigate zany comedy with dark emotional beats and back again mostly without strain.
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