Sentences with phrase «emotional crescendo»

More often, though, the movie is invigorating in its ability to reach its unexpected emotional crescendos with its visuals and music, and its use of Rocky iconography as touchstones rather than strict blueprints.

When it comes down to the last half - hour, Braff manages a long sustained emotional crescendo packed with both laughs and tears, and it is accomplished work, carefully balanced, beautifully constructed.

There are a few soaring emotional crescendos scattered across Mockingjay that come, not within the self - contained core of lead players, but from armies of coordinated extras.

And its emotional crescendo is reminiscent of Anderson's...

The Master means to unsettle — not through the startling violence of Punch Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood, or the emotional crescendos of Magnolia, but through a central relationship that's played for the highest stakes.

The appropriation and reversal of the emotional crescendo of «Khan» lands with a thud, as does the illogical, witless script and its muddy 9/11 allegory.

The pacing is also lackluster, never building to an emotional crescendo.

Without giving away details, Abrams inverts a classic sequence from Treks past, and in so doing reaches simultaneously for an emotional crescendo and an extended inside joke: It's unclear whether we're supposed to laugh or cry.

Bates lights up her scenes, feisty yet down - to - earth, and has one emotional crescendo that feels like it belongs in another movie.

The visual simplicity that Kalatozov uses to establish the story allows the filmmaker to gradually — painstakingly — develop the film's thematic complexity toward a psychological and emotional crescendo that reveals key self - destructive elements of war.