Sentences with phrase «lacks poignancy»

Not exact matches

The family dynamics lack nuance, but real - life husband and wife Krasinski and Blunt bring poignancy, the CG beasties are striking and the film pulses with ideas.

Instead of giving audiences something meaningful and eerily timely to reflect upon, the film is plagued with incoherence and a shocking lack of poignancy.

Love Ranch is to brothels and prostitution what Boogie Nights was to pornography, but it lacks the latter's depth, edge, poignancy, and sly humor.

Its failures are remarkably similar to those of Clockwatchers in that no matter the polish of the cast nor the professionalism of the narrative, there's a decided lack of spontaneity in its execution and a dearth of real poignancy in its epiphanies.

Blame it on the lack of a follow - up setting that could match the timely poignancy of taking over a bank building that was built but never used, and then slotted for demolition — all in the context of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.