Sentences with phrase «more dramatic territory»

, but he explored more dramatic territory with 2008's 21.

The actor is movingly effective as he explores more dramatic territory, and proving an ability to move an audience to tears as well as laughter.

The episode is fairly rife with humor, but it opens up into more dramatic territory near the end in an extended scene that reveals much about a brother and his insecurities and maturation.

Not exact matches

For the careful reader, foreshadowing creates a particularly effective form of engagement, ultimately moving into the territory of dramatic irony, where the reader knows more than the characters in the story.

Unlike their more recent roles, in which she played a delightful weirdo and he played a taciturn weirdo who also was capable of murdering you, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves will have to stretch their dramatic chops a bit for their next acting gigs, venturing into territory less in line with their actual personas.

As much as Robespierre infuses the dramatic material with her own comic sensibility — proudly vulgar at times, but always keyed to these particular characters — Landline doesn't always escape a sense that, for all the occasional well - observed details, we've explored this kind of familial territory many times before, and more insightfully.

The irony is that McDonagh isn't interested in anything as cut - and - dry as a David - versus - Goliath story or a feminist revenge yarn; the empowering version of this movie is the one the writer - director only appears to be making, before veering off into thornier, more ethically complicated dramatic territory.

With his fifth feature - staring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin - Reitman Junior tries something different, something initially more dramatic, but ends up back in comic territory anyway, albeit unintentionally.

While the script takes us into some dark territory concerning grief and tragedy, it often bends realistic protocol in order to show a more Hollywood style, falsely dramatic story.