Sentences with phrase «most of its running time»

While my endurance has become very good, I am not getting any faster, which is incredibly frustrating (when I'm at 155 BPM, which is where I've been spending most of my running time, I average about 9 mins / mile).

Though it drifts off into the ozone at the end, for most of its running time, «Never Here» is a low - key but effective psychological thriller which flirts with that looming issue of the social - media age: privacy, and the invasion thereof.

Those who haven't read the novel — or any reviews — may take most of the running time to discover just what the hell is going on, and even then the conclusion is unclear.

As the missing husband - to - be Doug Justin Bartha doesn't have a whole lot to do because for most of the running time he's uh missing.

In the film production - within - the - film, the recycled story, during most of its running time, goes according to plan: the virgin's friends die, leaving Dana alone to kill the redneck zombies.

In closing, L.A. Noire's ambitions far outstrip its abilities, and it's a frustrating failure most of the running time.

For most of its running time, it's an enjoyably unpretentious celebration of the guilty pleasure we can take from a stupid - as - all - get - out car chase or from watching things blow up real good.

Adopting a confessional, direct - to - camera interview style for most of its running time, this unvarnished vérité documentary about teenage prostitutes in New York City resolutely resists the urge to dramatize.

It has its harrowing moments, but the psychological thriller Jasmine is an impenetrable mystery for most of its running time, and deliberately so.

She's not very good here and her lack of depth is expertly matched by Kate Hudson, who is in full bitch mode for most of the running time.

A movie that must spend most of its running time explaining its hopelessly complicated premises, which leaves very little room for anything much to happen.

Merely tiresome for most of its running time, the film teeters into vileness with the late (and very real) threat of female genital mutilation.

The film leaves you uncomfortable and disappointed throughout most of its running time, right up until its cathartic finale.

Most of the running time is dedicated to Samantha alone in the Ulman house, being spooked by sudden noises.

In a movie that's acoustically muted for most of its running time — a movie that infuses its hushed status into its very premise — all of the above couldn't be more crucial.

There's also a making - of featurette which spends most of its running time to Edward Norton playing dual roles.

The video bitrate is pegged at about 36 Mbps for most of the running time, dipping lower occasionally, during exceptionally dark scenes.

Though most of its running time is confined to a massive shopping mall, Dawn's first third effectively hits home the widespread nature of the zombie outbreak, with scenes like the apartment raid by an overzealous SWAT team visually establishing the reach of the outbreak.

When a new director casts himself as the lead in his own film, everyone kind of assumes that a fair piece of arrogance and selfishness is at play, especially when that lead role happens to have him making out with attractive ladies for most of the running time.

«Planetarium» is so bereft of narrative direction and bewildering in establishing dynamics between characters that it's impossible to know what is ever happening and why for most of its running time.

For most of its running time, John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's short - story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men consists of little more than a series of monologues, and plays like some abstract theater exercise, hosted by a college coffeehouse.

For most of the running time, the Jewish struggles are given as much emotional consideration as Antonina's terrified caregiving, the scattered focus still coherent thanks to richly composed feeling.

There is a confrontation between Maguire and Banks at the climax of the film that is more emotionally charged than one would expect from a film that has kept its tone so light throughout most of its running time.

There's a whole subplot about a Vietnamese priest that purposefully refuses to make any kind of sense for most of the run time.

Unlike the day - long adventures of «Tangerine,» this scrappy companion piece spends most of its running time foregrounding its extraordinary performances.

Despite these comparisons, it's a very individual and uncompromising film — for most of its running time, at least.

But the stern tone he sustains most of the running time leeches the film of the pitch - black humor that, for me, remains Letts most valuable asset.

If that's the only amusement to be had for most of the run time, you know that the film must be a snooze.

But, the movie never really takes flight and lies quite flat for most of its running time.

While the performances are mostly great and there are some very funny scenes in the movie, most of the run time consists of Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann fighting.

Good Kill, for most of its run time, is as morally pragmatic as a film like this — with such an obvious message — needs to be.

It's also an opportunity for Ferdinand to end with a little dignity, which is more than the movie displays for most of its running time.

A wickedly funny high school comedy for most of its running time, Rushmore is a bracingly fresh and original outing.

«Most of the running time is occupied by action sequences, chase sequences, motorcycle sequences, plow - truck sequences, helicopter sequences, fighter - plane sequences, towering android sequences and fistfights.

Sure, it turns into a video game boss battle by the end, but for most of its running time it's just an actual movie.

Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer sustains something like that creepiness for most of its running time.

Johnston's old - fashioned modus operandi proves effective at carrying the proceedings through its few underwhelming stretches, and it's finally clear that Captain America: The First Avenger remains a cut above its lackluster Marvel brethren for most of its running time (if only because it primarily resembles an actual movie more than it does a collection of special effects sequences).

This is not to say that the film as a whole is a failure by any means — however, it will be up to the individual viewer to figure out for themselves whether it is an okay movie containing a few too many hiccups to keep it from completely pulling together or a not - so - good movie with enough strong individual elements to hold one's interest for at least most of its running time.

Peoples is more of an outrageous comic character for most of the running time, and Wright is insanely funny during these stages.

For most of the running time, the adaptation is faithful to a fault — with huge chunks of narration lifted from the book, and even lines of McCarthy's prose written out on screen.

Aside from brief appearances by 12 - year - old Luke's parents, played by the hilarious ad - libbing Virgina Madsen and Patrick Warburton, most of the run time is carried by its young cast.

Anyway, «Cartel Land» spends most of its running time with Mireles and the Autodefensas, if for no other reason than that they're the better story.

When a director's filmography includes «big» action movies like Edge of Tomorrow, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and The Bourne Identity (the original), the last thing we expect is a stripped - down war movie whose camera focuses on a single character for most of the run time.

The film spends most of its running time inside the car, and is quite episodic in nature.

Yet, for most of the running time, Edwards refuses to make good of this winning situational comedy.

For most of the running time, it's hard to understand or care about what's going on, and some of the ideas thought up in the 11th hour — such as the addition of a second zero - gravity sex scene, with James Spader and Angela Bassett's heads digitally attached to the bodies of the principals in the film's other weightless shag, Facinelli and Robin Tunney — just add to the confusion.

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Effective time management involves planning the amount of time spent you spend on all of the tasks of running a business — and your personal life — to get things done in the most effective and productive manner.

Social media is free to use for most businesses and is a gateway into promoting the type of services or products you have to offer at any time without waiting for a print ad to run or a new marketing quarter.

Nike has built its success on celebrity and athlete - endorsement deals, starting with running prodigy Steve Prefontaine in 1973 and continuing with one of the most successful shoe marketers of all time in Michael Jordan.

Most strangers aren't out to harm our children with the possible exception of those times when we have our small children running amuck on a long and crowded flight.