Sentences with phrase «emotional heft as»

Lena's very single sister Maya (Diane Farr) adds some necessary sass to the proceedings, but also brings emotional heft as she begins to question whether motherhood is in her future.

Not exact matches

When Donal approaches the long - buried reasons for this morass, «Bad Day» (which actually is set over several days) loses some inspiration, as it aims for a degree of tragedy it hasn't acquired the emotional heft to support.

As they take to the road pursued by all manner of miscreants, Logan, the professor and the girl become an unlikely multigenerational group, and the conversations Logan and Xavier have about family, disappointment and responsibility have surprising emotional heft behind them.

Its uplifting story arc may be formulaic but the strength and honesty of the performances give it surprising emotional heft — especially from Damon as a troubled math genius in the role that marked his arrival as a major, serious actor.

While the film has the same funhouse feel as «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,» it carries far more emotional heft — thanks in large part to Wasikowska's soulful performance.

It is not concerned with the wider political issues of the period, but a little more specificity would certainly help the film, as both its lack of nuance and persistent plotting issues frequently undermine much of the potential emotional heft.

Despite an occasionally stilted pace and a few cartoonish touches (Molly Shannon as Rachel's sexually frustrated mum clashes with the rest of the film), «Earl» develops a rare emotional heft, particularly when Rachel pressures Greg to make an original film for her.

The benefit of a creepy, powerful villain, from whom audiences will reel as he lays down his baton to wash his hands, is that his emotional heft filters throughout the entire film.

Just like that scale model of a Civil War battle, the outcome of The Grand Budapest Hotel is never in doubt — no matter the meticulousness of its simulacra — nor, as a consequence, do the tribulations of his tin soldiers have much emotional heft and attachment.

The attempts at drama do add some weight, all right — as in weighing down and slowing the proceedings, not adding psychological or emotional heft.

Montages are used to show the passing of time and as such pass by too quickly to attach any sort of emotional heft to them.

But while DiCaprio painfully conveys Glass» turmoil and intense resolve as he goes after the odious fur trapper John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy, in the film's best performance), there's an absence of emotional heft at points.

It's been 18 months and two more viewings since I was first wowed by Andrea Arnold's sink - estate drama, and Fassbender's is the performance that reveals more at each turn: as the kindly boyfriend of the teen protagonist's neglectful mother, his delicate negotiation of the queasy divide between parental and sexual impulse gives the film its messy emotional heft, but he's responsible for some unexpected stabs of joy too.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Woodson's background not only as a novelist but also as a poet, Another Brooklyn is told in spare, lyrical prose, with a surface simplicity that belies its underlying narrative strength and emotional heft.

And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight.