Sentences with phrase «muddled narrative»

This tale of an imprisoned journalist suffers from a muddled narrative, though Gael García Bernal is a fine actor

76 The telling of a significant (but failed) Nigerian military coup in the 1970s, the acting here more than compensates for the occasionally muddled narrative.

Even with a male host, for the first time, it felt like women were controlling the somewhat muddled narrative.

It's a mediocre movie with a muddled narrative and an incredible sense of constant confusion due to its similar - looking supporting characters, poor exposition, and overly convoluted plot.

But this movie seems like a huge muddled narrative mess with ugly effects.

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The USDMYR landscape is a bit muddled, and this air of uncertainty could extend, more so if opinion on the soft dollar narrative become less reliable.

Structurally, the film is a mess: on screen, the novel's digressive, anecdotal narrative seems directionless and muddled.

Unfortunately, he decided to cram most of those narrative threads together in Wish I Was Here, a muddled comedy that feels more like a vanity project than a profound examination of upper - middle class family dynamics.

Though there are some clear seams showing (in terms of construction and sequencing), to Dracula Untold's credit the condensed narrative (90 minutes of runtime) does result in efficient movement - with action sequences coming steady and regularly to break up any lulls or muddled moments of development.

The distinctly fractured narrative - coupled with an exceedingly deliberate pace - does ensure that one's initial impression of the film is that of an art - house mess, yet there reaches a point at which Egoyan's muddled modus operandi comes into focus and one is subsequently drawn into the proceedings.

There are times when Infinity War feels more like a patchwork quilt of moments to tickle the nerd bone than it does a coherent feature, particularly in a first half that is a muddled selection of vignettes and episodes, barely connected by narrative sinews that are doing an awful lot of heavy lifting and often crack under the exertion.

This, along with the cast's charisma, helps to carry the narrative forward even when it feels a tad muddled.

Too earnest to ironically indulge in the narrative's familiar pulpy beats and too uncertain about the strength of this material to play it straight, Fleischer aims for a muddled middle, jazzing up Beall's faux - hardboiled dialogue with slow - motion shootouts and shaky HD - cam pursuits that only remind us of how much better Public Enemies turned out.

The result is a bit of a narrative muddle, but the kind that makes tidier movies look overly timid by comparison.

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It starts as an intriguing enough mystery, evolves into a suitable second - act quest; however, some third - act «twists» just derail whatever narrative momentum the story manages to build, and muddles both the mythology and character relationships developed up to that point, leaving us with an awkward ending that doesn't feel much like an ending so much as a chapter break.

KH: BbS struck me as a muddled mess of storytelling and stylistic incongruities - a narrative filled with characters for whom I felt no attachment.

Says Zuckerman - Hartung, «the problem with narratives is that they imply a beginning, a middle and end... I'm trying to denarrativize — to stay stuck in the middle of the muddle.»

The distilled «choose your own adventure» - style structure of the printed text allows the viewer to muddle the distance between a hardboiled mystery and a narrative riddled with prankster wordplay — a simple substitution can turn Henry's «quips» into «hips», or send him into the depths of the «quarry.»