Sentences with phrase «endearing quality of a film»

Hans Zimmer's all electronic score is also something quite beautiful, enhancing the endearing quality of a film peppered with a series of grueling sequences, such as Chappie's being abused by a group of callous youth before he's physically butchered by Jackman's cruel antagonist.

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But the film's real joy is Gerwig, a fixture of the mumblecore scene now making her play for more mainstream indie stardom; gawkily endearing here, with a perceptive quality that fends off the cutes, she deserves to get it.

One of its most endearing qualities is its insistence to never reduce its cast — which is made up almost entirely of senior citizens — to the jokey cliches that they so often are in films like Last Vegas.

From her bizarre appearance (she looks like a swollen Bill Mumy) to that pinched, kewpie - doll chipmunk chitter - chatter she uses in the mawkish belief that it's an endearing quality in someone past the age of six, Zellweger would appear to be an easy target of blame for the film's general inadequacy.