Sentences with phrase «fascinating flawed characters»

With its fascinating flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, innovative overlapping dialogue, and haunting use of Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres.

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«The Terror captures a rare combination of fascinating history, complex and flawed characters, the inextinguishable human spirit and the horror and promise of an uncharted world,» said executive producers and co-showrunners David Kajganich (A Bigger Splash) and Soo Hugh (The Whispers) in a statement.

There is laughter, tears, story and great acting bringing us flawed but fascinating characters.

Once again, Russell puts fascinating, flawed characters on display, which the perfectly cast and uniformly excellent actors build into a close - knit universe to which we have boundless access.

But Linklater and McKay find a chink in his armor and play it to the hilt, making an emotionally fascinating, flawed character of him.

Sorkin has created another set of fascinating but flawed characters, with Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) as the perfect vehicle to shake up the cable news business after his epic rant that goes viral, and MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) as his ex-girlfriend and producer who pushes him to take a stand.

Jim Butcher's first two books in his Codex Alera are fascinating - weighted with capable, yet flawed female and male characters, and full of political

In a country continually arguing over the document's original intent, it is fascinating to watch these powerful characters struggle toward consensus — often reluctantly — to write a flawed but living and breathing document that could evolve with the nation.

An outstanding achievement, filled with flawed and fascinating character» - Booklist «Starred Review.

Winner of the Danish Crime Novel of the Decade, S.J. Gazan's debut novel The Dinosaur Feather is a classic of Scandinavian noir, from its richly imagined and deeply flawed characters to its scintillating exploration of one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary dinosaur and avian research.

He's a pretty fascinating character, extremely intelligent, with an almost photographic memory, but with deep flaws too (including vanity and paranoia).