Sentences with phrase «poignant than funny»

(for some reason she is made up to look precisely like JonBenet Ramsey, a bit creepy), it's meant to be more poignant than funny.

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More compelling than the general run of fictional drama, and often funnier, sadder and more poignant, Cops at first seems to be an unassembled jigsaw puzzle... This is a documentary being pieced together before our eyes.
The film, which features the extraordinary cast of Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Marvel, and Adam Sandler (exercising welcomed restraint, i.e., more «Punch Drunk Love» than «You Don't Mess with the Zohan») is a poignant, funny reflection on the stories that get told (over and over and over again) and how they sculpt who we are.
Much more than just «the iPhone movie,» Sean Baker's in - the - moment look at life «on the block» is brash and daring, funny, subversive, insightful and poignant.
In a funny yet poignant film, Michael Fassbender's turn as cult character Frank Sidebottom proves liberating rather than limiting, writes Mark Kermode
The film — a character study about two road workers who bicker and banter with each other as they tediously paint road lines in a burned down Texas state park — is a notably weightier comedy than most Rudd vehicles (this isn't one), striking some beautiful, poignant notes along with the funny dialogue.
His relationship with a fire - extinguishing robot is funnier and more poignant than the central relationship between humans in most movies, and there's nothing arbitrary about love interest / long - suffering assistant Gwyneth Paltrow.
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