Sentences with phrase «good character drama»

While there is good character drama and a few darker moments, it is largely a light - hearted adventure set in the Japanese entertainment world.

While there is good character drama and a few darker moments, it is largely a light - hearted adventure set in the Japanese entertainment world.

Granted, this reviewer's a long - time fan of Crowe's work, but don't let that dissuade you - Jerry Maguire is one of the best character dramas of its decade, and what it's got to say makes even more sense in the current climate.

Not exact matches

Born in Los Angeles, 36 - year - old Markle is best known for her role in legal drama «Suits,» in which she has played the character Rachel Zane since 2011.

Or the fact that even the best of characters in Tolkien's novels must have more bad attributes, like Farimir taking Frodo to Osgiliath.And Jackson has to add more drama to the tales.

As we have earlier remarked, the characters in Genesis speak their own lines, lines in immediate contact with the realities of their own existence, as well as the lines of the theological drama of God's concern in love to reconcile man and himself.

It insists on maintaining at the same time its own identity — that is, if the characters do speak the lines of the theological drama, they also continue to speak their own lines as well.

Summary of the drama in Planet Earth: Jews or Israel = the main character All other races or nations: beneficiaries of Israel, helpers (good guys), mobs, villains

The first act as well as the third of the great drama takes place «in the heavenlies,» but the second takes place upon the earth and partakes fully of the character of the earthly.

I honestly think that what obstetrics andabesthesia have been able to do to improve both the experience and outcomes of pregnancy to be the better story complete with drama pathos and miracles and great characters.

I loved One Tree Hill, I feel like it might have been the best teen drama ever because the characters were all nice, caring people and even when it was dramatic, they all wanted to do the right thing.

Vicky Oct 24 2017 11:57 pm I love Sung Joon he's so cute and I love how well he portrays all the characters he play in dramas.

It's a rich, thoughtful story about immigration, as well as a compelling murder mystery and an ensemble character drama all in one.

A lack of empathetic characters cripples this poorly paced but well acted drama about an Iranian family who purchase a city - auctioned bungalow in Northern California after its former tenant has been unjustly evicted.

Supremely and superbly character - driven, this film is a throwback to many of the best police dramas of the past.

In other words, he's much better at effects - laden set - pieces than character drama, and this film is crying out for more of the latter.

I disagree with the other reviewers saying there is nothing to connect to with the characters or the story when I think the actors do a good job, the stories tend to be strong, and the drama is good, especially for a USA show.

Writer - director Tanya Hamilton's intellectually ambitious debut drama Night Catches Us is all the more notable for setting well - drawn fictional characters in a fraught, real moment in civil rights history.

The always - appreciable Dana Delany does her level best to lift Body of Proof, a paint - by - numbers morgue drama premiering Tuesday night on ABC, from its stale premise and up to the level of a beautifully - flawed - character study, something more akin to Julianna Margulies's legal procedural, «The Good Wife.»

After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

More recently, Tierney was seen on the CBS Drama, THE GOOD WIFE, as well as the critically acclaimed RESCUE ME as the love interest of Dennis Leary's character, and reprised that role for the show's last season.

A very effective Hitchcockian thriller that starts off as a modest drama, taking a good time to develop its characters in a careful way, and then starts unexpectedly to become suffocatingly tense as the characters find themselves trapped more and more in an unbearable situation.

I'm a sucker for crime dramas so I watched The Bridge with high expectations.Overall I was pleased.The main characters compliment each other well and Diane Krugers character became more interesting after I learned she had aspergers, a form of autism, from a critic review.Demian Bichir was great as well and I look forward to the next few episodes.I like the Mexican / American themes crossing

«Rusty» stands as the lone well - written character in this pathetic «drama».

Whether Tara is herself or someone else (including a new alter), «Tara» works as both a character drama and an absurdist family comedy because the characters are so well - drawn, and because what happened before isn't forgotten as the show moves forward.

More drama than thriller, the movie does a slightly better job with period detail than with character building.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

Well - considered and sincerely acted, Kodachrome is a character - driven drama that has been wrongly labeled a comedy by some so - called critics.

A well - acted, if not terribly well - crafted, character - driven drama without much in the way of a purpose.

The severely twisted five - character drama, adapted by Tracy Letts from his stage play, has just about everything you would want in a good thriller — revenge, extortion, betrayal, romantic obsession and old - fashioned depravity.

This explicit look at the ins and outs of modern - day polyamory follows characters grappling with the emotional and sexual drama of sharing their hearts, as well as their beds.

Actor Edward Pawley played numerous character roles in 1930s crime dramas and is best remembered for playing notorious criminal Danny Leggett in the James Cagney vehicle G - Men (1935).

A great mix of fantasy, humor and drama, with a light tone but not in a ridiculous way and with well built characters you can identify with.

The biographical drama is not only noteworthy for Hanks» sentimental and powerful portrayal of the title character in a well - crafted narrative, but also for its stunning cinematography.

Director Marc Webb does a really good job of juggling the action, comedy and drama, but his most important contribution to the movie is providing more emotional depth to the characters, which makes Peter's various relationships a lot more interesting.

He also had recurring roles on the television series Mad About You and Friends and starred in the drama Huff (2004 - 2006), playing the titular character, to critical acclaim, as well as appearing in the popular stage musical Spamalot.

With a strong Guy Pearce performance, and supporting characters that are surprisingly rounded given what little screen time they have, it's a good drama that hits upon themes of accepting one's mortality, living without fear of the inevitable, and treating those around you as if your existence on this plane were about to expire at any time.

Sure, it's to bridge a connection and unity between their opposing viewpoints so that Lyndon B. Johnson's staunch pushing of the Civil Rights Act feels in character for someone that previously toed the line of racism (he has a friendly association with an openly bigoted US Senator played by Richard Jenkins in a subplot without much engaging drama or consequence), but it also isn't a good enough defense for formulaic and conventional filmmaking.

The news comes at a time when Ray Donovan, which stars Liev Schreiber as the titular main character of the drama, is having its best year ever — having grown in year - over-year ratings and earning its biggest haul of Emmy nominations yet.

Meanwhile, no one image helped to sell the indie family drama Krisha better than its title character staring off into the middle distance, cigarette between her fingers, contemplating how she's going to survive the however - many minutes she has left with her family.

While Stephen Curry, perhaps best known for the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us, seems game for most of the crasser elements of the film, his character of Teddy seems woefully underwritten and he never is able to bring the depth he wants to exhibit to the character.

Looking beyond the scope of its strange popularity, The Hunger Games is a compelling drama led by well - written characters, performed by strong actors working in exciting environments.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

This makes it more of an adventure than the psychological drama of 1957, though the 2007 Yuma still provides some good character moments.

Sepideh is a well - meaning character but every decision she makes somehow seems to make things worse, and Farahani is particularly brilliant in the film's gripping climactic scenes, when the full moral weight of the drama is resting on her shoulders.

As it stands, the film's approach hovers halfway between a conscientious community mosaic — of the type John Sayles excelled in at his peak — and a more linear issue drama of the «A Civil Action» variety, though it lack the specificity of character and process, respectively, that marks the best films in either subgenre.

Not bad at all.this film keeps you guessing in ways you never do a lot in horror films.Rob Zombie directs theses actors like I've never seen a horror director do before.this movie is truly amazing, people are calling it «terrible» I call it «good» it's the kind of horror film that actually deals with characters and not just pointless blood and guts.I felt like all these characters really did go through something, and this movie is truly just about them overcoming it.I don't consider this a horror film, I consider this a drama / horror film, cause that is what it is, and I love it.this mvie isn't just about a killer killing people, it actually deals with the people he's after anf even deals with himself at times, which I truly loved.Rob Zombie has proved to me again that he could direct.perfect seq...

Featured characters include Jack Warner, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Pier Angeli... Underrated English indie filmmaker Duane Hopkins, director of 2008's Better Things, is finally back with his second feature, Bypass, a lost - youth drama about a young small - time fence (played by rising star George MacKay) who comes to a crossroads in his life...

Gritty, harsh and extremely well - acted, this Australian crime drama really gets into the skin of its central characters.

They are both strong character actors that can handle the drama and play the comedic moments as well.