Sentences with phrase «flawed characters»

There is nothing wrong with filling up the screen with a bunch of flawed characters, but the real issue here is in the lack of direction.

Additionally, it has deeply flawed characters with believable motivations and goals.

The novel follows these two deeply flawed characters as they struggle with their past in order to find hope for the future.

What I enjoy exploring the most is flawed characters who manage to heal and grow towards their potential.

He is a very flawed character but also a character one can root to succeed.

Sure, they were superheroes, but they were also flawed characters.

The officers are not flawed characters, nor are they really characters with any dimension.

Full of flawed characters in complicated situations, you'll be infuriated by their actions, but want to see what they do next.

This tale of children and adults growing up doesn't quite have the emotional punch of THE DESCENDANTS, but Faxon and Rash once again prove that they can write compelling, flawed characters as well as writing young characters that seem real, which is a rare quality.

But this aside he's a surprisingly flawed character for a romantic lead and for some audiences might find their disdain for him makes the second act a little tough to chew.

There's a fine movie in here buried underneath a lot of bloat, but as of right now, it's an overlong, mostly unfunny, and flawed character study.

A slow - burning intensity sets this crime thriller apart from the crowd, directed by Belgian filmmaker Michael Roskam with a sharp focus on flawed characters who continually surprise each other.

Instead of the glossy, wisecracking polished tone they established in their Avengers movies, the shows offer gritty, dark looks at flawed characters that are barely super or heroes.

In Queen Elinor we find a sympathetic, admirable, and flawed character whose love for her daughter is unyielding, though the two often fail to communicate.

I agree with the below reviewer about flawed characters.

Like his Breaking Bad days, he channels both extremes of his psyche while playing another well - intentioned, but fundamentally flawed character.

At my recent screening of Mistress America, five people walked out within the first twenty minutes, apparently put off by hilariously flawed characters who talk to themselves, but at each other, without mercy.

It's a comic tragedy about deeply flawed characters wrestling with their consciences in a quiet, European city.

And while this adds an amusing thread, it is not especially important to the novel as a whole, which is really about a cast of highly flawed characters, each on a collision course towards personal disaster.

But thanks to an intricate and nuanced screenplay adapted by William Peter Blatty from his own novel, the film boasts any number of flawed characters struggling to find faith and to do what's right in this situation.

you have remember that it was a women that led us to sin and most of them have this same flawed character and the nuns know this as this is in Torah.

That is because the points tend to be perfectly clear and well behaved, as very little in my life ever is, while the stories (at least the good ones) star flawed characters with muddy motives whom I recognize at once.

Smartly scripted, convincingly atmospheric morality fable in which Hartnett, usually insubstantial as a good guy, plays a convincingly flawed character galloping toward the precipice.

The performances of the players are so uniformly terrific that you could do worse than to bring these deeply flawed characters into your living room on a regular basis, as this is a series for which TiVo was invented if ever there was one.

Its ambition is admirable: It wants to be an adult thriller like its director's justly famous «Three Days of the Condor,» with political and psychological reverberations, on real - world topics, with a reasonable cause - effect dynamic at play, clear motives, action plausible and not overdone, free of computer effects, full of recognizable, compellingly flawed characters, yet taut and gripping to an astonishing end.

Expertly assisted by a sexy, funny performance from Adèle Haenel, director Pierre Salvadori spins sufficient gold from a contrived storyline and some endearingly flawed characters.

Premises like the one in Kings And Queen usually lead flawed characters to call on inner reserves of strength, but Devos and Amalric only reveal deeper shortcomings, which makes them more touching and human.

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.

Depp does a great job of creating a likeably flawed character one which you root to both get in and out of trouble.

«Denis Leary's extensive and successful career playing complicated, flawed characters makes him the perfect addition to this badass Animal Kingdom family,» said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT.

As the fiery Countess wife of a literary titan, she brings equal parts passion and delicacy to a complicated, certainly flawed character.

The film isn't without it's flaws, as you may find it difficult to resolve the fact that you'll probably wind up rooting for the murderous Douglas not only due to his usually being the good guy in his films but because the lovers are severely flawed characters most will think deserving of getting offed, especially the lame - ass Mortensen as Paltrow's love interest.

Renzi definitely stumbles across the finish line here, but not before helping Gere create an unforgettably charming and fascinatingly flawed character.

Sporting a career - crowning performance by Bruce Dern and a thoroughly impressive dramatic turn by «SNL» / «30 Rock» alum Will Forte, Payne's first film based on another writer's original screenplay (by debut feature scribe Bob Nelson) nevertheless fits nicely alongside his other low - concept, finely etched studies of flawed characters stuck in life's well - worn grooves.

Stronger in theory than in execution, Garrity's Borealis boasts a dense script and meaningful direction which is somewhat undermined by flawed character motivation, contrived plot developments, and a slogging comedy - crime arc.

While the guests champion liberal dogma and pitch New Age methods to improve humanity, these are infighting, comically flawed characters.

Day - Lewis appears to be drawn to extremely flawed characters, and he makes Reynolds Woodcock very hard to like as the relationship between he and Alma progresses.

July's second film The Future is another prime example of her adorable yet slightly flawed character.

«I like portraying flawed characters that are insecure because I relate to that and I know a lot of people like that.

Which can only lead one to assume that it was Gerwig's touch as co-writer and star that gifted Frances with its warmth and generosity towards its wildly flawed characters.

All the elements are in play for a crackling good, Macbeth - like tale about ambitious but fatally flawed characters, but the erratic screenplay by Christopher Kyle lacks confidence as it swings from glossy romance to creepy thriller, leaving us feeling detached along the way.

Do you agree with BookPage mystery columnist Bruce Tierney that Karin Slaughter's books are «superbly crafted, relentlessly plot - driven and populated with admirably flawed characters»?

But alongside the history, Adichie presents compelling, wonderfully flawed characters and indelible, heartbreaking images, some of which have stayed with me even now, some six years later.

A master at building flawed characters, Mitchell emphasizes Scarlett's business smarts and adaptability, not just her feminine wiles and ruthlessness, as she emerges from the Civil War as a woman uniquely suited to thrive among the wreckage.

Chelsea is a seriously flawed character who speaks before she thinks, and lets her imagination control her life.

Ollie Olson is an engagingly flawed character who struggles with issues from his past and with the disconnect between his desire to see justice done in the world and the realities of practicing law at a high end firm.

- Library Journal «Certain bits of information occasionally feel deliberately withheld for dramatic effect (though they are eventually revealed), and Eva's superstar status at the end of the story feels like a little bit of a stretch, but Eva herself is a compelling, deliciously flawed character.»

Even today the images of those sincere, flawed characters Mr. Conroy put to paper burn bright.

With powerful imagery and realistically flawed characters, the story weaves Jess's point of view with moments of Anna's.

Writing a fast - paced, character - driven narrative, Mouton's authentic Southern voice delivers a suspenseful tale of tragically flawed characters unfolding in a twisting, dark plot that ultimately shatters the great institutions of Rome.