Sentences with phrase «often unlikable»

But it's Frances McDormand's complete commitment to her often unlikable and sometimes unhinged character that lifts Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri to a higher moral plane.

In films such as «Inside Llewyn Davis» and «A Most Violent Year,» Oscar Isaac, the man with two first names, has shown an uncanny knack for playing quietly intense, often unlikable characters that nonetheless have an undeniable magnetism.

As a result, Carrey is often unlikable as Bruce, which is a definite liability when it comes to feeling sorry for him during the crucial moments of seriousness down the road.

It isn't simply that her voice comes out clear and her characters feel tailor made for her; there's a sweetness in both films that was absent from Baumbach's previous efforts — a desire not just to present flawed people who were often unlikable but show that these deeply flawed, often unlikable people can also be lovable.

His characters are often unlikable to the point of abrasiveness but Perry, a sensational writer as well as a director, expertly unveils the weaknesses in these people as much as their barbed wits.

Not exact matches

The characters were all dumb and unlikable, the dialogue was unbelievably clumsy and absurd quite often throughout, and of course, the ending deliberately left the door open for potential sequels to follow, go figure!

Of course, women have also historically found escape in cheery romances and weepy melodramas: The uncomplicated pleasures of the utopia often prove a stronger draw than the fraught ones of the unhappy or unlikable woman.

People suffering from depression often experience delusions such as beliefs that they are worthless, sinful, or too unlikable to engage productively in society.