Sentences with phrase «emotional core»

It's a little amazing how much a strong emotional core can save a game that has so many other issues.

She can find that emotional core in any character and scene and play the hell out of it.

It's in this set up of our characters that the pieces of the underlying emotional core begin to come together.

The filmmaking is so assured that the movie's emotional core landed for me even as I wasn't sure if the story had entirely earned it.

It's a creative family film with a strong emotional core.

I'm having a hard time compromising the character with the movie's emotional core of Wade and his girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), which comes off a bit too saccharine for a movie that's trying to be a «game - changer.».

At its best, it's a sort of chimera of CONTAGION by way of «The Walking Dead», with a solid emotional core, provided by Pitt, but with a failed narrative, a botched third act that went through rewrites and reshoots to no avail, and without anything original beyond those fast - moving zombies.

There's not a whole lot to its characters either, though the relationship between Davis and George (prolific creature performer Jason Lilies) provides the film with a serviceable emotional core.

Critics Consensus: A complex meditation on family dynamics, Tetro's arresting visuals and emotional core compensate for its uneven narrative.

Kate Winslet, given more to do here than a host of female characters who support Great Men over the past decade, would perhaps be the film's emotional core if Fassbender didn't have total reign over all aspects.

It's important to remember that these films are more than just spoofs or parodies of the genres they emulate as each film has a powerful emotional core with something to say about friendship, growing up and more.

This remarkable courtroom battle against bigotry and bureaucracy provides writer - director Jeff Nichols with a deep emotional core that compels us to root for Richard and Mildred when all hope is lost.

The Edge Of Heaven (# 19) A hyperlink film that has the wandering feel of a Wim Wenders film with the kind of raw emotional core that Fassbinder could create.

That edge, however, is not completely lost, as the film's final act finds its real emotional core in Halliday, the story's central enigma who own backstory and reasoning for creating the OASIS turn out to have a deep and surprising poignancy that Mark Rylance conveys with a beautiful simplicity.

Very much in keeping with Cameron Crowe's previous writing - directing projects Say Anything and Singles, Jerry Maguire is another sweet (though somewhat long) movie wrapped around a jagged emotional core — one of those tempting sugar confections you devour halfway through before recognizing the strange new taste sensations at the center.

It's without question that sports dramas that are based on true stories usually have a nice emotional core or intensity to them, otherwise what would be the point of making them in the first place.

Baumbach uses flashbacks showing the development of the senior - year relationship between Grover and Jane (Olivia D'Abo) to form a bittersweet emotional core.

Last year's «Me Before You», based on a novel intended for a similar audience, blew me away — with a commanding lead performance by «Game of Thrones» star Emilia Clarke and a sophisticated emotional core.

A Brooklyn Baby: Crowley's Simple Immigration Tale Buoyed by Strong Emotional Core Director John Crowley returns...

He mixes a brutal emotional core with a Hitchcockian suspense - thriller as its outer casing, creating something that is as fresh and wonderful as it is affecting and horrific.

Together, Rocco and Nadia (in that order) awaken Bob's extinguished emotional core.

The film has small flaws, but it continues a strong run by Walt Disney Animation Studios, marked by movies that don't resemble each other stylistically but have complex emotional cores.

The tonal shifts are purposely attuned to frustrate, and the task of deciphering where things might go next occasionally draw attention away from the film's obscure emotional core.

I think that's what attracted me to it was that it had a great emotional core to it, but yet it didn't limit the wit that was possible, and we could really try to find that balance of something that felt like it had dramatic weight but also comedic opportunity.

Brolin's performance anchors the stakes of the movie, keeping it from flying off the handle into comic - fueled nonsense with a shockingly resonant emotional core that feels absolutely worthy as a follow - up to Michael B. Jordan's showstopping Killmonger in this year's Black Panther.

That said, Chris McKay pulled off something amazing with The LEGO Batman Movie: he delivered a heartwarming and hilarious sequel that honors the source material and maintains an effective emotional core that works for audiences of all ages.

But the film's unexpected emotional core is Kirsten Dunst.

There are so many disparate ingredients jammed together here (The film's climax even reveals an affecting emotional core that redefines events in a human context), yet the film finds an inherent order in the chaos.

It's a risky move that easily could have become a canard (I won't go into detail; it needs to be experienced cold) but successfully creates a new and wholly satisfying emotional core that reinforces its central conflict of creativity versus conformity and grounds it in a beautifully subtle and satisfying way.

The film is titled DANNY COLLINS, but it's emotional core rests its laurels upon the broken father - son relationship between Cannavale and Pacino.

In Roxana Robinson's lucid and elegant prose, her characters» inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings.

Taking Kratos and making him someone with pathos and an actual emotional core is tricky, but -LSB-...]

The set pieces and characters deliver plenty of laughs without ever favoring the humor too much over the character development and emotional core of the feel that allows for a real connection beyond just the humor.

There's a very strong emotional core in the film that keeps things centered around Alton, and the love his parents have for him even though he's different.

You'll walk away feeling sombre and slightly downtrodden but, thanks to a handful of strong performances and a strong emotional core, the central debate will linger in your mind, which is exactly what «Lullaby» sets out to do.

It's a fun action flick with a slightly heavy - handed but solid emotional core that's unsurprisingly getting an English remake.

There's now not a complete lot to Rampage «s characters both, regardless that the connection between Davis and George (portrayed through common creature performer Jason Lilies) supplies the movie with a serviceable emotional core.

Critic Consensus: A complex meditation on family dynamics, Tetro's arresting visuals and emotional core compensate for its uneven narrative.

Overlooked: A technical tour de force with a powerful emotional core, The Handmaiden finds South Korean provocateur Park Chan - wook ascending to the rank of master filmmaker, elevating gleeful genre trash to high art through the precision of his craftsmanship.

A remarkable novel with a deep emotional core, Barbed Wire Heart seamlessly blends page - turning suspense with a multilayered and unflinching portrayal of a poor, rural community where family is everything.

It has all the suburban horror of Elephant yet manages simultaneously to have a real emotional core.

From our SEL perspective, Restorative Practices play a key role in establishing common language and strategies that aid in the growth of our students social - emotional core competencies.

«Some people see Melinda as the heart of our foundation, the emotional core.

Internal and external misfortune are the emotional core of any good tale.

Think about what emotion you want the audience to feel, and keep asking why until you find the emotional core of why people do something.

Thundering Herd football had been the emotional core of this corner of West Virginia for decades, drawing players from families who had been in the state for generations.