Sentences with phrase «emotional resonance»

While the story is enjoyable, it doesn't quite live up to the grand adventure or emotional resonance of its predecessor.

If it has some kind of emotional resonance with your audience, that's a good start.

It follows the students, parents and educators across four years of hard work, a roller coaster ride of successes and failures, capturing it all with intimacy and deep emotional resonance.

This film has no problem abandoning the human actors for large amounts of time, confident that we can get enough emotional resonance through the apes.

His is a solid work that creates emotional resonance when and where the film needs it.

It's not only the abundant charm and wit but emotional resonance when needed.

The work has a strong emotional resonance that I think viewers really respond to.

It's a shame really, especially when a large part of the film is full of strong humor and more complex emotional resonance than should be expected.

Without these early scenes on earth, the rest of the movie would have little emotional resonance.

You don't even need to have played the previous games (although it does help for added emotional resonance), so anyone can jump in.

There's a female - empowerment angle to the premise, yet the film comes up short in terms of emotional resonance because it consistently feels so detached from reality.

Beautiful Thing works so well because it reminds us of that fact without losing its own emotional resonance.

Some intriguing character dynamics don't lead to sufficient emotional resonance.

I actually bought the leather cover with my first consultancy pay - check back in 1997, so it has emotional resonance too.

The seven years he subsequently spent there had continuing emotional resonance for him throughout his life.

One of the moments of emotional resonance in Portal is the incineration (by the player's own hand) of the coyly named and designed Weighted Companion Cube.

Hooper gives his singers even more emotional resonance by uglying them up.

There is not as much emotional resonance as with some previous Disney entries, but this is still a great time and the best animated film I've seen so far this year.

Despite flashes of brilliance the crime drama, set in Jamaica and the UK, has a plodding narrative and lacks emotional resonance

Brilliantly plotted and paced, The Devil's Star shows Nesbø at his absolute best, combining powerful emotional resonance with truly stunning suspense.

The script, from James C. Strouse, has some good lines and solid jokes, but otherwise fails to generate interest, undone by some too cute by half plot developments in the third act that cut off any earned emotional resonance at the knees.

«Arguably the fiercest, and the most vivid chronicler and critic of the «war on terror»» — New Yorker Radio Hour «Poitras... gives emotional resonance to an aspect of foreign policy that can otherwise seem as abstract and remote as drone warfare itself.»

The film missteps in going there at all, but Ruffalo's gift for emotional resonance stands him in good stead.

A vivid slice of pop culture history - an irresistible, soapy mix of jealousy, competition and class warfare, fortified by powerful performances and unexpected emotional resonance.

And yet, Johnson proves that he can deliver emotional resonance beyond the whiz - bang spectacle.

With impressive narrative structure, this black and white buddy film carries great emotional resonance as character arcs reach thoughtful conclusions.

There's little doubt that Chloe initially doesn't fare quite as well as one might've hoped, as the film moves at precisely the sort of glacial pace that Egoyan has become known for - with the lack of emotional resonance among the various characters essentially perpetuating the cold, almost clinical atmosphere.

I thought Andrew Garfield played the part of the confused teenager with emerging super abilities very well, and he brings a lot more emotional resonance to the role.

A story of self - acceptance and discovery that transcends its historical inaccuracies and allows it to ascend to a level of magnetic emotional resonance.

The real emotional resonance of this movie comes from the almost unforgivable things that both Heigl (who betrays her sister) and James Marsden (who betrays Heigl) do to people that they love, how they forgive themselves, and how they are forgiven.

You want emotional resonance in your funnybooks?

On view in a clear lacquer case, Kara Walker's laser - cut steel sculpture of a lynching scene has a particular emotional resonance.

As Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, Jordan's emotional resonance depends not on revelation but on an accumulation of tiny moments of affect: the little sniff of concern when Oscar's not sure of something, the uncalculated gestures of affection between him and his daughter, his at - turns testy and relaxed interactions with his mother.

Though the tragedy unfolds with a deftly - played emotional resonance, there is no dignity in Hannah's demise.

I'm tempted to launch into a whole feminist analysis of how a female figure must always be sacrificed (or sacrifice herself) in order for the male hero to succeed in his quest, but my reaction to such narratives has taken on a different kind of emotional resonance now that I have a son.

The result will have emotional resonance across Europe and it will change European perceptions of the UK.

Espaillat added: «Bruce's Garden has been a valued space in our community for over 40 years, and holds special emotional resonance as a memorial.

But instead, the median emotional resonance of words falls well into positive territory for every corpus from every language tested.

** out of **** «The Tree» is a perfect example of a movie that has all the necessary materials - an appealing set - up that promises emotional resonance and overwhelming warmth, a strong starring performance from a well - respected actor / actress, and an almost outlandish sense of care for the setting of choice.

Still, the character - driven screenplay co-written by Braff and his brother Adam features some ambitious if calculated ideas that don't achieve either a consistent tone or a satisfying emotional resonance, especially when it comes to the plight of its protagonist torn between personal dreams and family obligations.

By taking a warm, witty approach to a rather outrageous situation, Canadian filmmaker Ken Scott helps us see past the plot holes to the underlying emotional resonance.

The only emotional resonance comes with the closing credits, as photos and archival footage of the real - life Line Found are presented and we are reminded of the tragedy that should have permeated Sean McNamara's cheesy narrative.

Nolan's genius is his ability to tell complex stories that have a lot of emotional resonance while still filling the screen with jaw - dropping action and special effects.

While the heavyhandedness may affect the overall emotional resonance, it doesn't affect the anger it inspires regarding the criminal act that took place, nor does it affect my admiration for the terrific work done by Coogler, Jordan, Melonie Diaz, and Octavia Spencer.

It's an impressive technical achievement dragged down by a script that doesn't achieve the intended emotional resonance, either for its characters or for its topical but heavy - handed political message.

Such thespian aptitude can be credited with generating modest emotional resonance, although the film's minimalist approach works to push viewers away rather than create the desired intimacy.

Their relationship gives the film's grim conclusion an extra emotional resonance, one that may well leave audiences on the sniffly side as they shuffle out of the cinema.

Perhaps one of the best surprises at the cinema this year, Roger Michell's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel brings genuine emotional resonance to the bonkers twists and turns of the source material.