Sentences with phrase «film emotional heft»

His choices, an eclectic assortment of songs, lend the film emotional heft while controlling its tone.

Vikander has the less showy role, but her character is more three - dimensional and gives the film emotional heft.

Not exact matches

The final film presented a gargantuan challenge to its makers, who were required to juggle gigantic action scenes with emotional heft and jaunts into the metaphysical to explain its labyrinthine plot.

The bulk of the movie's emotional heft revolves around these key players, with various supporting roles showing up in the latter half of the film to offer support and their condolences to the shattered man.

But when it emerged that «Monster House» creator Gil Kenan was set to take charge, The prospects of «Poltergeist» improved immeasurably: his films have precisely the right blend of spooky thrills, oddball invention and emotional heft to suit this story of a young girl abducted by vengeful ghosts.

The first of five new films in the Harry Potter universe combines enthralling visuals with surprising emotional heft

Kenan's films have precisely the right blend of spooky thrills, oddball invention and emotional heft to suit this story of a young girl abducted by vengeful ghosts.

Except that Haigh's new film has the substance and emotional heft to be considered a masterpiece.

The film's virtually a solo effort for much of the running time, and Bullock (who won four years back for «The Blind Side «-RRB- is doing something different here from the bulk of her work in the last few decades (you have to go back to «Speed» for its closest counterpart, and there's much greater emotional heft here).

Despite an occasionally stilted pace and a few cartoonish touches (Molly Shannon plays Rachel's mom with a broad sexual frustration that clashes with the rest of the material), Earl develops a rare emotional heft, particularly when Greg is pressured to make Rachel an original film.

Buoyed by clever takes on undead lore and charmingly dorky puns, the film earns its emotional heft through inspired characterizations and centuries of starch - collared melancholy.

Visually stunning, well acted, but altogether too silly and far - fetched to really resonate, the film lacks the emotional heft, enormous sense of personal loss or sense of time from Reiner's film, and for a film so preoccupied with its central character's inability to forget or escape the past, it fades into memory all too quickly.

While the film has the same funhouse feel as «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,» it carries far more emotional heft — thanks in large part to Wasikowska's soulful performance.

It is not concerned with the wider political issues of the period, but a little more specificity would certainly help the film, as both its lack of nuance and persistent plotting issues frequently undermine much of the potential emotional heft.

Despite an occasionally stilted pace and a few cartoonish touches (Molly Shannon as Rachel's sexually frustrated mum clashes with the rest of the film), «Earl» develops a rare emotional heft, particularly when Rachel pressures Greg to make an original film for her.

For Plummer — who is currently filming «Gully,» about a trio of teens running wild in a dystopian L.A. — managing the emotional heft of «Lean on Pete» with the day - to - day baggage of filming illustrates the harmony he strives to achieve between his career and home life.

The benefit of a creepy, powerful villain, from whom audiences will reel as he lays down his baton to wash his hands, is that his emotional heft filters throughout the entire film.

Talking of the emotional heft of objects, one of the things that I found immediately moving about the film is the sense it has of a world where images are scarce, and where something like a rosary bead can be invested with so much longing.

In one sequence, Martin explains that he had to tell his wife to come to bed every night, otherwise she would stay up working until 4 a.m., sometimes 6 a.m. To see her husband support her and never feel any sort of jealousy in her successes gives the film some serious emotional heft.

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.

Anderson's films have long had an off - kilter balance between arcs and individual moments, and this movie is largely tilted towards the latter: to name just one of the most piercing examples, the first flashback (of many), which shows Spots and Atari's first meeting, has enough emotional heft to sustain a full half of a lesser film.

Coogler manages to pack each with enough backstory, breathless action, emotional heft and political weight to fill three films.

These are moments that contribute to the emotional and intellectual heft of the movie, not showy shots that are dissected in film class.

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.

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.

The TV set plays Thomas's moving film about her mother, «Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,» offering a back story that gives the initially silly pair of shining Crocs a new emotional heft.