Sentences with phrase «emotional heft at»

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.

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

«Games» created complex characters with psychological depth and emotional heft, and put them at risk while tackling bleak futuristic narrative themes.

Another frustration within the film is constantly missed opportunities to pack emotional punches and the film miscues moments far too often with only a scene between Bale and Saldana at a bridge encounter showcasing the emotional heft needed to do so.

While at this point in his bastardized career, Burton is no longer a tough act to follow, Muppets director James Bobin doesn't clear the CGI cobwebs or successfully anchor any of these new events with the emotional heft that would at least make the removal of Carroll's sense of humor, brilliant caricatures, vivid imagery, and peerless wordplay somewhat tolerable.

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.

Titanfall 2 is at punching weight with Doom for single - player shooter experiences because of its creativity and surprising emotional heft.