Sentences with phrase «less noirish»

Krantz has a penchant for stylization that quickly slides into a velvet - painting cheesiness, which - along with the script's pseudoprofound Philosophy 101 maxims - renders the atmosphere less noirish than ridiculously cartoonish.

Not exact matches

Elements of noirish mystery persist throughout A Fantastic Woman, but the filmmakers prove less interested in their protagonist's psyche than the intolerance she's made to endure at every turn.
Absent any need for Sirkian quote marks, the less brightly stylized images in «Carol» more closely resemble those of «Mildred Pierce,» but the palette here seems even more deliberately muted — all dingy greens and nicotine browns, bathed in noirish shadows that seem to provide a cover under which the characters can at last reveal their true selves.
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