Sentences with phrase «grace notes»

What stands out most are the film's character moments and tiny grace notes of feeling around the edges of the story.

But the movie leaves little time for grace notes in its delivery of plot information.

First and foremost this is a dire domestic drama, offering only a few grace notes to genre, which might be one too many, but still.

Call asks, in a final grace note that gives nothing away in the enjoyment of the film.

All the actors add their own grace notes to their performances.

In fact, in lesser director's and editor's hands it's easy to imagine them left on the cutting room floor altogether as they're more visual grace notes than story beats.

They added a nice spicy grace note to the sweet pumpkin and the tart cranberries.

It's never too late to play a few grace notes.

This is Steinbeck's «Travels with Charley» for a new, harsher age, but with grace notes of humanity throughout.

In five reflective chapters he offers the fruits of his reading of the New Testament, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, John Donne, and Jeremy Taylor, with poems by George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, and T. S. Eliot added as grace notes.

Then again, he's not particularly kind to his New York characters, either — even Kline, who finds lovely grace notes in a sympathetic character, feels shunted aside in the back half of the movie.

«Atonement» (2007) found Wright following his muse Keira Knightly through the war - torn romantic terrain of Ian McEwan's novel with emotional grace notes played in ringing succession.

But it's when resolution begins to sink into this circle of troubled love that Bell begins to find herself as a filmmaker, making room for grace notes, resonant personality and lilting humor.

A French import that's long on grace notes and wry humor, it eschews flash and opts for heart to great effect.

Although Last Rampage's overarching narrative travels a well - tread road, it strikes a number of potent grace notes along the way.

Rotten: Although Last Rampage's overarching narrative travels a well - tread road, it strikes a number of potent grace notes along the way.

Good grace notes for any period piece.

A talented ensemble (including Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter and Cobie Smulders) finds grace notes in a so - so script

King Cobra isn't always the subtlest film — why should it be, it's about a world in which subtlety's usually considered superfluous — but it has grace notes like this that make it distinctive, and distinctively touching.

His speech Tuesday, about the release of renderings for a new train station, included some nationally tuned grace notes.

Now, in what may well be the final act of its agonies, the hulking bookstore chain sprawls on the divan of America's Bayreuth, rising from the silks to sing another negative earnings report, recently with grace notes about restaurants being added to some locations — and stylish firepits!

It's a bit of a mystery why a brainy, popular girl like her would fall for the nerdy Peter, but Stone offers little grace notes that help us feel the connection.

It's a fearsome, charismatic performance that nonetheless shows unexpected grace notes with relative kindness toward Tim Roth's withdrawn Colin, as if there's still signs of the boy he may have been before he adopted an outsized manner and worldview in reaction to a decaying working - class England.

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I have more Grace Notes to share from my conversation with Alexandra during the week, including her thoughts on love, happiness and daily rituals!

Builders started incorporating Southern Pine's recycled products into new construction, adding historic grace notes to restaurants and hotels.

Ramin Bahrani's talent for orchestrating sequences of tightly wound tension is in full bloom here, as is his complementary knack for quieter grace notes.

Popping up throughout is a piquant group of slugs who act as surreal grace notes by way of impromptu doo - wop, sound effects, or oddly evocative emotional outbursts that are as much commentary on the action as a glimpse into what seems to be their complex inner lives.

His is a crowd - pleaser of a role and performance, with plenty of stirring moments on the House floor to raise hairs, and a sweet if heavily speculative grace note of sentiment toward the film's end.

It's not often you see two people relishing sparring together and pulling off such expertly - executed grace notes.

The preposterousness of this plot marks Fading Gigolo as a vanity project, but it's hard to take Turturro too much to task when he hits so many other grace notes in between blowing his own horn.

It's just all so sad, but never actually rings true, a movie about grace in defeat that showcases few discernible grace notes.

«Landline» might not bring back Dustbusters or revive Lorena Bobbitt as a go - to reference for stand - ups, but it leaves behind a lingering grace note about family matters that befits any era.

Slant notes the film is a «canny balance of nostalgia with hindsight» and «ends on a beautifully melancholic grace note.»

It's brimming with imaginative grace notes — a horse that curtsies when it's introduced; a francophile who doesn't know any French — and freewheeling performances, not to mention a killer soundtrack that, like the movie itself, blends retro with modern.

That Chase felt the need to literalize his thesis with a surreal dance sequence near the end is a shame, but the abundance of grace notes everywhere else is more than enough to compensate for the discordant fade - out.

Pan's Labyrinth's protracted fascist metaphors and its ghoulish grace notes are nearly as blunt and horrifying as anything in Crash, and the film may even register as realism to the same group of voters who actually bought Sandra Bullock embracing her Hispanic maid.

Hopkins directs with warmth, affection and a simple respect for all the characters, and he adds touching grace notes to their story.

Unfolding over a single week, Paterson follows its titular New Jerseyan (Adam Driver, locating grace notes in extreme understatement) as he goes to work, hangs out with his loopy artist girlfriend (Golshifteh Farahani), makes nightly visits to a local watering hole, and finds the spare time to scrawl out the odd stanza.

And Fleischer's imagery is punctuated with grotesque grace notes in the otherwise elegant imagery, from bank patrons doubling up in death throes when the trigger - happy robbers fire on the bystanders to the Amish family trussed and taped and lined up like victims of some perverse torture.

But there are some saving grace notes throughout.

He's among the finest explanations we've had thus far of why the Left can't seem to muster a compelling resistance: in the face of all this outrage and insult, under the weight of almost four decades of poisoned passion, the voices of our best intentions find themselves tongue - tied and thunderstruck, sick on smack with their heads against a toilet — as slow in coming to our defense as the punchline that serves as this picture's surprisingly understated grace note.

One of the comic grace notes in this feud involves Max's friendship with Dirk Calloway (Mason Gamble), a much younger classmate at Rushmore, who spies Herman emerging from Rosemary's house, blocks his car when he's leaving, announces, «I know about you and the teacher,» and spits with fury on the hood of Herman's car.

In Manchester By The Sea, he makes emotional numbness compelling, revealing grace notes of humor and compassion in a character who hides his heart behind a wall.

Nevertheless, he created a film full of the sorts of recognition - shocks and unsentimental grace notes that are possible only within his brand of artful clutter.

Whatever potential grace notes these opening developments contain are quickly thwarted once Osman is befriended by Lindsay (James Franco), a knuckleheaded handyman whose only proficiency seems to be his delinquency in paying his debts to local crime rings.

That Nolan wrenches grace notes out of such fleeting bits of horror is a testament to his intermittent skills as an image - maker.