Sentences with phrase «little character study»

Paterson: A seriously moving little character study, Paterson features one of Adam Driver's very best performances.

The American is actually an arty little character study about a lonely assassin for hire who has become a target and hides out in a picturesque Italian village.

Yet Wright has found an untapped wellspring, using Anthony McCarten's sometimes overweeningly clever script to beat a propulsive path through familiar material, giving us both a compelling process movie, full of speech and spittle, and an arresting little character study.

Not exact matches

In this obscure indie film, two little read - comic books come together in a subtle, dialogue - heavy character study that plays out like a slow - burning portrait of good and evil in the modern world.

More troubling still, it's a character study that does little in the way of character development.

Is it a nasty little B - movie thriller or a somber and arty character study?

This film is pretty much a character study, since there's little to no actual plot to follow.

With strong performances by a very intriguing cast, particularly by Kate Winslet, Little Children manages to overcome the obstacles of the artificiality of the characters and situations to deliver ultimate truths about the human condition, particularly in the lives of people who normally wouldn't make for interesting study.

If Albert Nobbs is meant to be a tender character study of a little girl lost (take your pick), there's a big, giant hollow in the middle of it where motivation should be.

Hepburn's dominance all but crowds out a fine cast, the film is a little too sweet and can't capture the complex character studies and scope of the book.

You may walk into this modest little indie character study feeling like this seventysomething sex symbol is the ultimate oh - it's - that - guy from decades of supporting roles and TV guest appearances.

There's little doubt that Think of Me, for the most part, comes off as a typically subdued character study, with Ambrose's gritty, consistently captivating performance initially compensating for the expected lack of plot and narrative thrust.

The sadly little seen Four Friends (aka Georgia's Friends, 1981), though it doesn't feel like an Arthur Penn film, is nonetheless a very tender and poignant character (and era) study reminiscent in tone and style of John Sayles» The Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) or Lawrence Kasdan's later The Big Chill (1983).

Through a deeply introspective character study Brooklyn proposes that one little step can form an entire bridge.

Wartime stars Paul Reubens, in sickly make - up, the swell Allison Janney, a dour - looking Ally Sheedy, and Little Boston's Paul Dano, and finds Solondz revisiting and reimagining several characters from his controversial pedophile study Happiness, in addition to ones from Dollhouse.

Created by the New York animators the Fleischer Brothers (Max, the eldest of the three, produced; Lou animated and later supervised the music; their little brother, Dave, directed), she was, as the animation historian Donald Crafton puts it in his recent study, «Shadow of a Mouse» (University of California Press), «one of the earliest cartoon characters to be a fully fleshed - out human being and the only classic» toon star generated as female (neither Minnie nor Daisy were leading ladies).»

It is a movie which is a skin - peelingly intimate character study and a brilliantly nihilist, feminist parable: what happens when smart progressive career women give birth to boys: the smirking, back - talking, weapon - loving competitive little beasts that they have feared and despised since their own schooldays?

There Will Be Blood is one of only two nominees that have the seemingly required nominations in the director and editing category to pick up the top award, but almost an three - hour character study stands little chance.

It starts off as a slow - burn character study, offering little exposition as we track a bedraggled homeless guy with mental health issues.

The project started as a study of simplicity and character design — keeping it clean and minimal and using as little and as simplistic shapes as possible.