Sentences with phrase «emotional crescendos»

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.

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.

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

Rather than build the tensions into an emotional crescendo, Morrison shows the quiet side of family fallout.The events that brought this family here all took place long before the camera was switched on; revelations come via glances and sharp intakes of breath.

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.

Like all of Sandler's Netflix movies, The Week Of is longer than it needs to be, finally ending on more of a friendly shrug than an emotional crescendo or a great gag.

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.

Not exact matches

The difficulty is that Brassed Off operates at an emotional pitch that starts at a crescendo and never relents — rendering almost everything equally inconsequential.

There's tension were it needed be — bookie tough guy Terrence Howard adds nothing to the bigger picture — and that distracts from the emotional honesty at St. Vincent «s core but as it crescendos towards its heart - rending finale, you'll find yourself uncommonly willing to forgive it its sins.

The emotional disquiet builds like an orchestral crescendo from near - silence to a roar.

I first discovered this crescendoing ode to the singer - songwriter Gabrielle Smith's insecurities when she sang it for NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series, a performance that's devastating in its emotional power (skip to 5:19).

Carter Burwell's wondrous score, which swells to a brilliant crescendo in the memorable climax, manages to elaborate on the story's emotional foundation even when words fail the two leads.