Sentences with phrase «emotional coda»

And not smart enough, as meta - introspection goes, to bridge the gaps in Chronicle, like a badly under - developed «hero» and an equally under - developed «villain,» their relationship to each other, and, at the end, an emotional coda that feels unearned and tacked - on.

These observations are perceptive, and they seem like just nice moments until a surprisingly walloping emotional coda that I dare not spoil consummates them into something more.

Not exact matches

For some it's a lovely and deeply touching coda; for others it's Spielberg's desperately heavyhanded and completely gratuitous final act of emotional extortion.

This «in case you missed our movie» moment caps the movie's strained but hollow attempts to earn emotional resonance, and the mishmash finale, featuring a coda of characters we know nothing about followed by an epilogue followed by yet another coda, frustrates as a further reminder of how little we care about what has happened.