Sentences with phrase «from melodramatics»

Documentarian turned film director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, keeps this war thriller and emotional drama away from melodramatics.

A ride that's teased by an opening flash - forward which suggests catastrophic consequences for the domestic life of Walter White (Bryan Cranston, astonishing as ever in his swings from mensch to menacing)-- whose criminal alter ego is now in danger of being exposed by his brother - in - law / DEA agent Hank (Dean Norris, a world removed from the melodramatics of his new gig Under the Dome).

Charlie Plummer — no relation to Christopher — also refrains from melodramatics as the captive John Paul Getty, or Paulo, as he's known to his captors.

I found this a refreshing change from the melodramatic and cleverly - put together documentaries we usually have served to us.

I found this a refreshing change from the melodramatic and cleverly - put together documentaries

How a Time Out critic can say this film is «far from melodramatic» beggars belief.

Combining the traditional blandly heartwarming gags of newspaper cartoons with geekiness and fanservice (the typical formula is four cute girls and one ditzy adult woman doing adorable things), it's a very different genre from melodramatic shojo and shonen manga; but it's also easier for casual readers to get into (since it lacks the long storylines of Drag - On Ball etc.) and, with its four - panel structure, it's perfect to view on computer screens and smartphones.

This one, inspired by a scene from a melodramatic European film, married the rouged lips of the model (one of the artist's friends) with the deep red of the bier - like surface she lies upon.

Not exact matches

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

Though some people might like to dismiss these sorts of sentiments as wishful thinking, melodramatic affectation or worse, they actually emerge from deeply held beliefs about the power of suffering, the motivational memory of the beloved, and ultimately the hope of a potential reunion.

That may sound super melodramatic, but the fact that they came out damn near perfect on the first try seemed like a gift from the anxiety gods.

I've obviously written this off as overly melodramatic, as he's also afraid I'm going to die: in the bathtub (via electrocution from my Kardashian - watching devices), crossing the street (because I'm always reading emails on my phone), or because I never, ever exercise.

The climate models, far from being melodramatic, may be conservative in the predictions they produce.

People will shy away from reading your melodramatic profile.

These numbers appear at the beginning of Tony Scott's latest melodramatic thriller, aptly unnerving as they set up just such an event: a young man is taken from his wedding celebration.

What I liked is the fact that there was a lot of potential, with this type of story, to resort to melodramatics and they hold back from it, for the most part.

Though visually beautiful and boasting superb performances from the entire cast, Black Swan, much like the ballet Nina so adores, falters because of its emphasis on melodramatic style over substance.

These unnerving numbers, appearing at the start of Tony Scott's melodramatic thriller, set up just such an event: a young man is taken from his wedding celebration.

Really, it's again Dujardin who steals the show from the wiley temptresses and the melodramatic Nazis.

Very disappointed that this turned out to be a melodramatic «people are horrible when cut off from society» show, as opposed to a science fiction show.

Before the Storm maybe doesn't take this to heart enough, with its more melodramatic plot beats actually detracting from the parts I enjoyed — and yet I'm inclined to forgive those sins, because the moments where it does stumble on some seemingly universal truth?

Critic Consensus: Bracingly intense, passionate, and wildly melodramatic, Black Swan glides on Darren Aronofsky's bold direction — and a bravura performance from Natalie Portman.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

This biblical action drama that feels excessive in every way imaginable, from running time (nearly 2 1/2 hours) to melodramatic acting to the conspicuous amount of computer generation.

Critics Consensus: Held aloft by a transfixing performance from Javier Bardem as a terminally ill man who chooses to die, The Sea Inside transcends its melodramatic story with tenderness and grace.

But their shtick feels entirely out of place, as if they jammed a number from «Annie» right in the middle of this extremely melodramatic historical opera.

Critic Consensus: Held aloft by a transfixing performance from Javier Bardem as a terminally ill man who chooses to die, The Sea Inside transcends its melodramatic story with tenderness and grace.

The inclusion of several extraordinarily melodramatic sequences within the film's second act only cements this feeling, to the extent that one can't help but wish that such moments had been excised from the final product.

Critics Consensus: Bracingly intense, passionate, and wildly melodramatic, Black Swan glides on Darren Aronofsky's bold direction — and a bravura performance from Natalie Portman.

On DVD, the Farrellys provide audio commentary for the film and 11 deleted scenes, ranging from seconds - long sight gags to longish, well - developed segments (some were cut because the film had built up too many melodramatic scenes back to back, the Farrellys note).

The film looks deliciously melodramatic, relying on tensions not only between lovers old and new, but from eldest daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet).

While some humorous amusement is to be had from these lighter threads, they degenerate into the manipulative, melodramatic hokum of those sappy «very special episodes» of sitcoms or, in the case of David, disease - themed afterschool specials.

As the story progresses, the film also shifts strangely from a riveting exploration of a power couple with a pioneering spirit to a more melodramatic thriller about corruption and murder.

Through this ironic casting, La Paura not only draws upon the personal biographies of its two lead performers, but also more importantly undercuts the melodramatic narrative by preventing the audience from completely investing in them as real characters.

Condon seems reluctant to cut a single moment from the venerable musical - theater warhorse, and the endless deluge of big, melodramatic scenes and show - stopping production numbers quickly proves exhausting.

The Light Between Oceans is definitely a melodramatic weeper, but one saved from outright embarrassment by the sheer force of the talent assembled to bring it to the screen.

It's billed as an epic and melodramatic romance, a sure departure from the director's previous work that makes you wonder what exactly attracted him to the project.

Although the noted writer / director continues his trend of capturing excellent performances from his leading ladies (having worked with Jane Birkin in La Fille prodigue, her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg in Amoureuse, Juliette Binoche in La Vie de famille and Isabelle Huppert in La vengeance d'une femme), The Three Way Wedding fails to turn its significant female presence into anything more than an expressive yet insubstantial feature, instead existing in the space between amusing and neurotic, and passionate and melodramatic.

What connects these stories is Kristen Stewart, a former assistant of Bobby's uncle, who walks into the New York club one day like a ghost from the past, a scene as melodramatic as it sounds.

But Roach takes that theatrical style, mixes it with the look and feel of movies from Trumbo's era (including politically - themed dramas like Elia Kazan's «A Face in the Crowd,» a favorite of Roach's) and whips up a playful, stylized, slightly melodramatic tone.

He's a true voluptuary, not just the guy behind those bony creatures from «Pan's Labyrinth» but also, per last year's Crimson Peak», a believer in grand, melodramatic flourishes.

Even attempts at slapstick come off subdued in a film that, without Sarandon, could have failed miserably but which appears to be holding back from more melodramatic actions as though trying too hard to cater to an arty audience.

The latest film from director Paul Weitz sits comfortably alongside his earlier comic and ultimately melodramatic explorations of 30 - something adult anxieties about parenthood, mid-career crises, and personal growth.

The prequel benefits from not having to build on the numerous mistakes of the sequel, inventing a fresh angle on the shadowy tale that allows for more melodramatic posturing, better actors, and room to spill monster blood by the bucketful.

That's as much as can be disclosed from the nasty, well - knotted script by James Greer and Jonathan Bernstein (upping their game slightly from the Jackie Chan vehicle «The Spy Next Door»), before proceedings tumble into a writhing snake pit of melodramatic reversals and vintage B - movie jolts — some chilly, some silly, but all held together with defiant, dug - in credibility by Foy.

His subversive sense of humor and convoluted plots, which often circle back through time, keep his films from being merely melodramatic, but at their worst they can seem frenetic, all color - saturated surface and no substance.

Or melodramatic mystic Solitaire (Jane Seymour) from Live and Let Die?

The movie may be criticized by some for not finding a unified tone, shifting from broad comedy to serious drama, but Garrone overcomes audience doubts by seamlessly weaving in the comic with the melodramatic.

With a screenplay and original scenario from Stephen King, regular King collaborator Mick Garris» 1992 film sticks in the mind long after its conventionally melodramatic and violent finale, because its opening hour is so sexually bizarre and tonally berserk.

The kids are led by a pair of demonic teen boys, Isaac (an unforgettable John Franklin) and Malachai (Courtney Gains), but the community is far from stable: when a bickering couple arrive in town and are menaced by the kids, things escalate violently, culminating in a melodramatic showdown in which a demonic presence is summoned and fought in the cornfields.