Sentences with phrase «piece of storytelling»

One of the best pieces of storytelling from any medium this year is happening on a podcast.

I am talking about a powerful piece of storytelling that is the best film so far this year.

This is actually quite an impressive piece of storytelling.

Its very nature as a controversial piece of storytelling enhances its weight.

This is a brilliant piece of storytelling that any fantasy or action / adventure lover should go and read this.

It can't be judged as a stand - alone work since it doesn't stand alone and isn't — objectively speaking — even a very good piece of storytelling.

The point behind the song, however, is a strong one: None of Coco's few flaws can fatally undermine the film because it is, most of all, a smart and enduring piece of storytelling with a satisfyingly twisting narrative and richly complex theme.

It comes together like a well - oiled machine, creating an eminently satisfying piece of storytelling that doesn't have to pander to get our attention.

Holyfield's acrylic paintings, full of life, color, and movement, make music a visible presence in the book, which is an evocative piece of storytelling suffused with music.

To The Moon is a masterful piece of storytelling, which not only features a huge plot twist, but is both heart - breaking and bittersweet.

It was a relatively simple piece of storytelling that cast Triple H and Stephanie in typical cheating heel roles, while Rousey and Angle pleaded with the referee for fairness.

Envisioned as a surrealistic painting come to life, it is a delight to behold, yet it fails miserably as a compelling piece of storytelling.

Emerges as an overproduced novelty pic that looks and feels more like a company promo reel than an engaging piece of storytelling.

It's tainted by a fair amount of middlebrow stuffiness, but it's a fleet piece of storytelling and serves to enshrine one of the great ham performances of all time, Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.

It's just an incredible piece of storytelling.

It's hard to imagine a more subtle version of such an extreme story, but the film starts to feel a bit like a carefully calculated lesson more than an organic piece of storytelling.

The opening minutes of «Fugue» not only suggest that we're in for another grim and off - kilter portrait of femininity, but that Smoczynska is again twisting a very familiar setup into a ruthless piece of storytelling that plays by its own rules.

But the trailer itself is also an expert piece of storytelling with a beginning, middle, and end — one that takes its time to set a mood, introduces both its world and its cast of characters, and highlights imagery that gets lodged immediately in the audience's nightmare - generating subconscious.

In reality it's a deceptively complex piece of storytelling, one that takes a straightforward and compelling narrative and finds visual ways to translate Northup's irony - laced prose so that we're in the moment with him as he experiences the frontline reality of an institution he's been opposed to, but distanced from, all his life.

Demetri Martin's directorial debut may be named after his late father, but Martin has dedicated the film to both of his parents, and rightfully so, because it's an incredibly personal piece of storytelling that will resonate with anyone who's ever dealt with the devastating loss of a parent.

An animated robot love story with an environmental theme and a slapstick delivery, WALL • E is a charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.

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Not Fade Away succeeds as compelling atmosphere and distant reflections, but not as a fulfilling, coherent piece of storytelling.

Nearly 10 years to the day after Iron Man cemented Robert Downey Jr.'s comeback and the arrival of Marvel Studios as a major new industry power, Infinity War will begin the conclusion of what's arguably the most ambitious longform piece of storytelling in film history.

This first act is a tight piece of storytelling about the way Briony's flights of fancy become the fodder for harmful gossip mongering and a concise look at class structure and the prejudices that arise from it.

But, those niggles aside, «Killing Them Softly» is a cracking piece of storytelling with a restrained balance of laid - back chat and canny visual outbursts — and it has a delicious thread of gallows humour running through it.

From Another Earth to District 9 to Monsters, sci - fi buffs have been able to savour some truly fantastic pieces of storytelling, even if the mass - market stuff such as John Carter seems to have failed to capture the public's imagination.

Of course, love can make you feel loyal, and at the end of this movie, and I think it's a double - edged sword because you see his response of finally having a human response is he makes a big mistake, which is interesting, and I thought was a really deft piece of storytelling.

Abi Morgan's script has plenty of fatalistic Dickensian nods for the literary set, but still works as a clean piece of storytelling.

The biggest reason for that (surprise surprise) is because the writers took enough time to fine - tune the script, whittling it down to a pitch - perfect piece of storytelling that feels both fresh and classic at the same time.

For all the dazzle of the mechanical dance, Levy commits himself to the human drama and delivers an old - fashioned piece of storytelling.

Matt Whiteley's screenplay finds something of a groove, spending the better part of an hour as a solid, linear piece of storytelling, while the progressively more rebellious Jobs suffers a falling out with his own company.

An evocative piece of storytelling whose homespun words evoke the sublime.

Even if this is not the most sophisticated piece of storytelling, it is still substantially more nuanced than any plot previously offered by a Zelda game, and really does focus on Princess Zelda — her failures, and ultimately her successes, as she ceases to feel trapped by her duty and instead accepts her fate and goes on to successfully seal away Calamity Ganon forever.

The award - winning American epic Long Day's Journey Into Night has finally arrived on our stage and audiences are raving about this epic piece of storytelling.

It was a creepy and unnerving piece of storytelling that put participants at the center of their own personal horror movie whose story could branch and respond to their choices in real - time.

A solid piece of storytelling that doesn't pander, skips the usual POW stereotypes and allows the film to work reasonably well as an epic of war, a survival story, a prison thriller, a murder mystery and a courtroom drama.

Other critics called the film Bigelow's «most harrowing piece of filmmaking» and a «powerful piece of storytelling.»

What Remains of Edith Finch is a masterful piece of storytelling: gorgeous, skillfully told, uplifting in places, and devastating in others.

Judging it as a film and a piece of storytelling, I thought Miral was quite all right.

Ultimately, Barrymore impresses much more as a showcase for a bravado performance than as a piece of storytelling or as a film improving upon a play.

Bigger, bolder, richer, and better than the original, while adding its own unique elements that make it stand out and grow as a piece of storytelling.

As a piece of storytelling, well, it manages to pull off its ludicrous plot fairly nicely, mostly avoiding mawkishness and cloyingness.

As a formal exercise in the look and feel of cinema, «Wonderstruck» is dazzling, particularly in the way it brings a silent world to life; as a piece of storytelling, it struggles to find balance, and then relies on a string of coincidences to tie things together.

Though the film fails to sustain interest as a piece of storytelling or source for steady laughs, one remains invested if only to figure out how Evan will get itself out of an amply - anticipated apocalyptic flood without making God look bad.