Sentences with phrase «emotional stakes of»

Given the enormous financial and emotional stakes of a home purchase, it's critical that you have total confidence in your real estate agent.

Full burn serves as a meditation on masculine duty and the emotional stakes of transcending fear.

Sure there are bits of narrative here and there, but nothing to glue them together and raise the emotional stakes of the character's journey.

Given the enormous financial and emotional stakes of a home purchase, it's critical that you have total confidence in your real estate agent.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

There is a half - baked uprising against WCKD that is only tangentially related to the main characters and serves little purpose other than to paint an explosive background to what's meant to be the true emotional stakes of the movie: Thomas saving his friends.

Their film features perhaps the first action scene we've ever seen where we cared more about what was happening in a character's relationship than how many kills he was about to rack up — and then, once it was done, felt simultaneously exhilarated by the visceral power of what was happening immediately, and the emotional stakes of what that set piece took him (and us) away from.

What I thought was quite true about the emotional stakes of these people within their marriages, even again if it's over the top in its structure, it resonated for me personally within my own relationships.

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There's some inherent drama to buying a house: big sums of money, high emotional stakes, tense negotiations, simply tragic interior decor.

For many, this complicated web of emotional stakes only exists on Facebook, because Facebook is the only social platform on the web where who we are now, in adulthood, converges with the past life we had as a teen or a college student.

«When you are in the midst of a high - stakes situation, it can be very emotional and flustering, so it will be very difficult to come up with strategies in the moment» explains Kang.

Uneven cognitive, emotional, and physical growth, a newly keen awareness of others» perceptions, and seemingly higher stakes all combine in dramatic fashion.

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Depending on how you and your spouse handle your divorce and parenting responsibilities, it may be safe to say that the future emotional health of your children is probably at stake regardless of what you decide.

The emotional tone of the event indicates what's at stake: the fear that as more Americans learn the ugly truth about how their food is produced, other companies like BPI might have to defend their indefensible business practices.

When Chakras are out of balance the emotional body and physical body are not aligned, a person physical and emotional wellness is at stake.

All of the emotional stakes get replaced by bad CGI shots of beautiful people morphing into beautiful dog - people.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

Critic Consensus: I Do... Until I Don't misses opportunities for fresh observations, settling instead for a middle of the road romantic comedy lacking memorable characters or real emotional stakes.

Lastly, the emotional stakes, as all signs prior to release have implied that not everyone is going to make it out of this movie alive.

You won't be able to turn away from this gripping, emotional thriller in which nothing short of the fate of our nation is at stake.

He may be sicker than Hank Moody or Larry David, but he's also a far richer figure, and in his own strange way, just as universal, thanks to the transcendent performance of Michael C. Hall, who deepens every sick joke and raises the stakes on every emotional twist.

By failing to push their galumphing antihero toward the self - knowledge he so desperately needs, [the directors] rob the film of its emotional stakes.

It certainly does what it says on the tin, with an epic final clash, but compared to Jackson's finest hours, it's visually muddy and pretty much more of the same, and without the stakes of emotional payoff of the «Rings» films.

It finds drama in philosophical difference and emotional damage transformed into human conflict, and ends with revelations that will redefines the stakes of the show's upcoming fourth and (sadly) final season.

The politics of Catching Fire play against stakes that are more personal and emotional than in The Hunger Games.

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.

Starring Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, this fantasy horror series has a little bit of everything — comedy, great music, and real emotional stakes.

Rather than dealing with the emotional gravity of the devastating loss that serves as its catalyst, it bends over backwards to create nonexistent tension around the apparently high stakes world of high school volleyball.

It's apocalyptic entertainment with easy heroes (recycling, turning the lights off, telling your friend to do so) and villains (climate change deniers, FOX News), but with only talk of the emotional stakes.

Within seconds and without words, Ravi Jadhav's Marathi - language Nude establishes its emotional stakes, presenting a pristine vision of freedom before snatching it away.

The combination of physical circumstances — bad teeth, lack of vitamin D, devastating abuse — and high - stakes emotional intensity makes for a screen performance we'll be talking about for a long time.

In 2009's Moon, director Duncan Jones found clever ways to refresh sci - fi tropes and instill emotional stakes into a distancing story of isolation.

If possible, the movie suffers even more from its belief that we might have some emotional stake in the process of seeing the adventures of these characters come to an end.

But it weaves together a compelling series of flashbacks that have real emotional stakes in the present.

Nichols is in full control of the emotional beats, the raising of the stakes, and the deepening investment by the audience.

Just don't expect anything in the way of emotional stakes or thematic resonance.

That said, not everyone will remain dead, but factoring how high - stakes Infinity War was and the emotional impact of all these deaths, it makes sense that not everyone will get to come back.

Despite a few slightly repetitive story elements, DOCTOR STRANGE still doesn't feel totally stale — thanks mostly to the way the filmmakers keep emotional stakes at the forefront of the killer action sequences.

Now after an even longer musical history of handling action films and trailer soundtracks form «Full Contact» to «Dishonored 2,» composer John R. Graham impressively carries on the saga's epic musical tradition with «Kingsglaive,» matching its astonishing mo - cap visuals with a score that captures both the characters» emotional stakes as well as the furiously drumming symphonic fury of its hellzapoppin mash - up of steampunk, sword and sorcery and giant monsters.

Furthermore, co-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (whose The Last of Robin Hood was also released in 2014), probably have a huge emotional stake in a movie like this, given that Mr. Glatzer suffers from ALS.

Between the outstanding performances from Teller and Simmons, a winning script, and an inbred set of emotional stakes, Whiplash drums up a jaw dropping finale that'll have the musically indifferent just as cheerfully mystified as lifelong aficionados.

Whitney Drake • 2 hours ago It's really sad that they think the only way the guys buying this are going to buy that there's some sort of emotional stakes for Batman is if they're sleeping together.

It's really sad that they think the only way the guys buying this are going to buy that there's some sort of emotional stakes for Batman is if they're sleeping together.

Perhaps it's West's decision to play the verbal duels straight and the pistol duels as jokes, robbing the former of any juicy, literate patter, and the latter of real emotional stakes or tension.

All three are at their most movie star charismatic here, with their formidable dramatic chops lending real gravitas and palpable emotional stakes as they continue their struggles and conflicts with each other and within in order to act for the greater benefit of their kind.

Almost everything in the movie is in service of answering these questions and, unfortunately, it comes at the expense of character building, emotional stakes, or a compelling story.

They are the structural equivalent of the death of Passing Businessman No. 3, existing purely as imagery to up the stakes and give the franchise some emotional weight, certain not to carry any consequences whatsoever with them — but Passing Businessman No. 3 has been replaced by Spider - Man and Black Panther and Captain America's boyfriend.

But in this sequel, star Ryan Reynolds (co-writing with the first movie's scribes, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) and director David Leitch («Atomic Blonde») raise the emotional stakes — and the level of potential wink - wink satire — by deploying one of the nastiest tropes in the comics canon.

Instead, Deadpool 2 wraps its story around the bones of a romance, grounding the movie's irreverence in real emotional stakes.