Sentences with phrase «for narrative momentum»

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (genre mechanics with a gift for narrative momentum but weak on story) write and produce but don't direct (Jimmy Hayward gets credit there), and this dull mess could really used some of their hairbrained excess just to make it interesting.

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That is a very large success for a party with as little real power as the Democrats currently have, and the narrative of that success may give the Democrats some momentum towards further success.9

It's fairly tedious stuff that's compounded by a lack of narrative momentum and an almost aggressively deliberate pace, with, in terms of the latter, the movie's slowness ultimately preventing the viewer from working up any interest in (or enthusiasm for) the protagonist's feel - good antics.

The ongoing absence of momentum within the narrative ensures that Agora becomes more and more tedious as it unfolds, with the tragic conclusion subsequently unable to pack the emotional punch that Amenábar is clearly striving for - thus cementing the movie's place as a misguided and utterly forgettable piece of work.

The 2017 lineup, which kicks off with Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game, will screen a total of 131 films, including 33 narrative films, 16 documentary films and 82 shorts, most of which are already beginning to build momentum for award season.

Writer / director M. Night Shyamalan's penchant for a deliberate narrative is certainly in full effect with Unbreakable, as the movie, though consistently entertaining and occasionally engrossing, progresses at a lackadaisical pace that tends to prevent the viewer from wholeheartedly embracing the material - with the film ultimately faring better than, for example, The Sixth Sense due to its progressively absorbing narrative (ie there's a sense of forward momentum that was almost entirely absent from that earlier picture).

LMD: You have such an eye for pacing, momentum, beautiful camera shots and how to keep your audience interested, I wonder why you've never made a narrative feature?

While this is justified from a storytelling standpoint, with Tyler's 19 - year - old Lucy arriving in Italy at the beginning of the picture and greeting her cohabitants for the summer, the film takes forever to achieve narrative momentum as a result.

The stories of the three female leads, african american women working for NASA and fighting for the recognition of their work and abilities, are woven together, giving strength and momentum to the narrative.

Coogan is a gifted comic performer, for sure, but oftentimes this actively acts against the movie, since it feels like there aren't individually crafted scenes, or even much in the way of forward narrative momentum.

The narrative does lag the slightest bit at the midpoint when Carl decides to leave LA behind for a quick trip to Miami and the script loses its focus, but as soon as he gets his hands on that food truck and he's back to being a man on a mission, the film takes off with even more momentum than before.

And yet his narrative rarely wants for momentum.

The larger scope of the sequel allows for Evans to flesh out the narrative, but too many chatty gangsters almost cripple the momentum between incredible action sequences that certify Evans» ascension to a supreme action cinema maestro.

The film is relies more on momentum and personality than narrative but that's just fine for this misfit crime spree road comedy.

Mood prevails over narrative momentum in this elliptical drama that's admirable for its vision even as it keeps its characters at a frustrating emotional distance.

They become more so as the narrative itself becomes repetitive, but for a while, Wheatley maintains a sense of kinetic momentum that keeps the pieces together.

The larger scope of the sequel allows for Gareth Evans to flesh out the narrative, but too many chatty gangsters almost cripple the momentum between incredible action sequences that certify Evans» ascension to a supreme action cinema maestro.

One of the great strengths of the Rocky franchise is its sense of a true continuing narrative, rather than a momentum - devoid series of rehashes orchestrated purely for financial gain.

For a book which is ostensibly a chase, this does tend to halt the narrative's intended pace as frequent intervals, meaning the story loses momentum at moments where it needs to be pushing the reader forwards.

According to South African critic Amy Halliday, contemporary art from the African continent is «often either excluded from, or uncomfortably assimilated into, an overarching Western narrative:» Nicholas Hlobo, a young South African sculptor, mined this narrative for his 2008 installation at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, where his work was featured as part of the Momentum emerging artists series.

... The Environmentalist narrative of catastrophe, doom, and apocalypse, once given superficial scientific plausibility (in that science can not exclude the possibility of such things happening — which it never could), provides doubt and uncertainty about the security of the future, which in turn provides political momentum and legitimacy for environmental policies.