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While the story can be a little slow and melodramatic at times, Yakuza 0 never takes itself too seriously.

As thousands of families throughout Chicago watched anxiously, the process of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement turned melodramatic at a Chicago Teachers Union Labor Day rally.

The mystery is interesting, so is the law, but the movie gets a little overblown and melodramatic at parts (especially the subplot about Dershowitz fighting to keep two poor guys from getting executed.

Though overly melodramatic at times and absent the full details of the toll CTE really takes, Concussion is at its best when operating as an underdog story.

First Reformed is made in a refined style but it's shamelessly melodramatic at its core; like a preacher trying to win over a skeptical congregation, Schrader keeps piling on reasons that a man of peace would potentially resort to terrorism.

It actually becomes an interesting movie, even though it does get a bit melodramatic at points.

Not exact matches

«Without sounding overly melodramatic, and I want to apologize if it does, the last victim of John Muhammad sits at the defense table today.»

Back in print to coincide with the show's fourth season, the book offers a look at the era's ad business that's unencumbered by the TV show's melodramatics and attempted profundity.

The truth is that Tolstoy, as an epic writer, is majestically brilliant at his craft, while Dostoevsky, as a dramatic writer, has his many moments of genius (Mitya and Grushenka's night together just before Mitya's arrest, for instance), but all too often falls into the worst conventions of nineteenth century melodramatic theatre.

Despite that rather melodramatic beginning, marathon running developed into a comparatively low - risk event, or at least it was until England's Chris Stewart, the third - place finisher in both the 1976 and»77 New York Marathons, turned the ancient Greek legend on its head and began running relief supplies across sniper - infested battle lines and into the broken heart of Croatia and Bosnia - Herzegovinia.

Perhaps slightly over-the-top and melodramatic, Barca's 4 - 0 defeat to Paris Saint - Germain in the Champions League this week was seen by some as a clear sign that it's an end of an era at the club and a rebuild is required.

For something a little more soap opera / melodramatic try BLACKBERRY DAZE at the Robeson, for zany comedy try the Kavinoky's THE FOREIGNER, and for a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of Youth.

These numbers appear at the beginning of Tony Scott's latest melodramatic thriller, aptly unnerving as they set up just such an event: a young man is taken from his wedding celebration.

And the loss of faith at the end seemed unnecessarily melodramatic.

These unnerving numbers, appearing at the start of Tony Scott's melodramatic thriller, set up just such an event: a young man is taken from his wedding celebration.

With dogged determination, the producers continued onward with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), at which point fans finally flocked to the series, rallying behind the film's crisp space battles and the melodramatic tête - à - tête between Shatner and Ricardo Montalban.Shatner had to wrestle with his advancing age and the deaths of several characters in Star Trek II and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but by Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the actor got to indulge in his more whimsical side, which has since characterized his career.

In any case, these people's melodramatic issues can not compare to those suffering under the heel of Apartheid at the same time.

Mark Pellington's latest is a melodramatic look at how we assign value to the objects that take up space in our existence.

«A Royal Affair,» which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, unfolds in ribbons of traditional, melodramatic plotting, and is certainly a bit too long.

I already mentioned the melodramatic sequence at the beginning.

I didn't particularly mind it myself; it's about as melodramatic, formulaic, and uninteresting as most films of its kind that I've seen, but at the same time, not as bad as, say, half of the lot.

«Emotionally raw though a dash melodramatic, Hannah Fidell's 6 Years is a bittersweet look at love and sacrifice at the ripe young age of 21.

Although Red Sparrow succeeds at being the sort of routinely paranoid, melodramatic secret - agent yarn that used to drop back in the Reagan era, it overdoes it in the brutality department.

Come on people, I know that melodramatic comedies seem to be in, but its best if you can succeed in, at least, either the drama or the comedy.

The screenplay Bryan Sipe actually skips over the scene of Gabby revealing her affair to Ryan, which might at least have provided a bit of melodramatic heft to the story.

The man who co-founded the naturalism - loving Dogme 95 manifesto with Lars von Trier is at his best when putting ordinary people into low - key situations that slowly become melodramatic.

The melodramatic plot revolves around Dr. Wren Petersen (Theron), the uptight daughter of the famous humanitarian founder of Medecins du Monde, who meets roguish surgeon Miguel Leon (Bardem) at a Monrovian refugee camp.

Even attempts at slapstick come off subdued in a film that, without Sarandon, could have failed miserably but which appears to be holding back from more melodramatic actions as though trying too hard to cater to an arty audience.

The men's jealousy over who should «have» Nicola hints at some kind of massive, melodramatic blood bath.

I mean really: Hawke at his best, amazing cinematography, just the right amount of melodramatic spunk.

His subversive sense of humor and convoluted plots, which often circle back through time, keep his films from being merely melodramatic, but at their worst they can seem frenetic, all color - saturated surface and no substance.

Trying to look at the film objectively, I can honestly say that, even if it falls short of the greatness of a Shakespeare play, as a straightforward film, Nelson's opus is overly melodramatic to a fault, with unconvincing character touches and a climax that borders on idiotic.

Instead of seizing the opportunity to tell a compelling story about how these African - Americans attempt to deal with the stresses of racism at the mercy of authority figures, they're mostly ignored in favor of an unfocused, undisciplined, melodramatic mess.

What Lelio has crafted here within a slow - burning melodramatic structure is a three - hander, a love triangle that threatens to blow up at any minute.

As a result, while the portrayal is campy and, at times, melodramatic, most audience members will likely be rooting for Poe as the film stumbles into the closing act.

Director Nat Faxon as waterworks employee Roddy, and Director Jim Rash as a nerdy concessionaire at a booth «nobody goes to,» join in with the spirit of the occasion, the big melodramatic scene occurring when Duncan accuses his mom's boyfriend of sleeping with the much younger Joan (Amanda Peet).

Where a melodramatic family drama might establish an image of unity only to gradually crack away at it, Baumbach eschews any such illusions right off the bat.

In truth, all five are first rate, so I chose the one I enjoyed the most, a romantic drama directed and performed at a melodramatic pitch.

At face value, Twilight waters down the vampire genre to tell a story about a deeply melodramatic love triangle.

In an equally somber film filled with melodramatics, Peter Landesman, directing the film with an adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi's book «Four Days in November,» the screen is taken up largely at Parkland hospital where almost ironically both Kennedy and his assailant Lee Harvey Oswald, were taken — the latter after being shot by Jack Ruby, whose name does not come up at all in the movie.

There inevitably does reach a point, however, at which the movie becomes bogged down with oppressively familiar elements, with the egregiously melodramatic bent of the third act - ie multiple fake break - ups - obliterating the mildly positive impact of everything that preceded it.

It's an audacious 15 minute segment that instantly establishes itself as the highlight of the film and unfortunately ensures that what comes after feels awfully anti-climactic, with the eye - rollingly melodramatic and sentimental third act certainly exacerbating this feeling (it also doesn't help that there reaches a point at which the movie could logically end but chugs along for another 20 minutes or so).

It's excusable at this point, part of the narrative; it isn't until later the melodramatic syrup clogs the whole film down.

Too, Pick - Up moves along at a good pace under the direction of Marion Gering, and though its wind - up is melodramatic, the entire piece is well to the «light» side.

Once the gears of Potter's melodramatic plot start into motion, though, it becomes little more than an over-the-top soap opera, in which current affairs and past sexual trysts are revealed, relationships falls apart, a terminal diagnosis comes to light, and the gun goes through a series of motions to wind up in the hands that held it at the movie's start.

Unlike similar offerings that are targeted at love - struck teenagers and twenty - somethings, this movie is well - aware of its goofiness and instead of melodramatic romance, Warm Bodies actually uses that absurdity to tackle a larger topic: the power of living.

Reynolds never, not for a moment, took the film seriously, playing to the crowd that likes to cheer for the hero and hiss at the villain in true melodramatic fashion.

The moment, so weakly melodramatic that Violet would likely roll her eyes at it, lacks the fluid self - awareness that Wells does an able job of capturing in the more tightly confined scenes (especially in the play's infamous dinner scene).

The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, where our critic called it a «slow - ass» movie that never «cracks a joke and potentially melodramatic moments (a fairground ride collapse, the initial accident, a suicide attempt) are so painstakingly crafted to avoid splashiness that any momentum is killed.»

At times it seems as if they attempted to humanize him, which leads the film into bouts of melodramatic mush, but it is essential to move the story along and creates the swells needed for the many crescendos of action and conflict throughout.