Sentences with phrase «raising emotional stakes»

Even the first creatures Rose encounters — small, childlike things shrieking like infants — have an obvious connection to her immediate, personal fears, which raises the emotional stakes considerably.

There is no central conflict, past or present, to raise the emotional stakes.

But in this sequel, star Ryan Reynolds (co-writing with the first movie's scribes, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) and director David Leitch («Atomic Blonde») raise the emotional stakes — and the level of potential wink - wink satire — by deploying one of the nastiest tropes in the comics canon.

This updated version appears to not only revamp his armor but it also replaces his cop partner with an increased role for his wife (played by Abbie Cornish) perhaps to raise the emotional stakes when the mechanical crime - fighter regains a conscious and rebels against the puppet - masters of OmniCorp (Michael Keaton being the ruthless face of).

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

It's a film about empathy, forgiveness and parental bonds, and another sublime low - key drama from a director who never fails to raise the emotional stakes in a subtle and sensitive manner.

Sure there are bits of narrative here and there, but nothing to glue them together and raise the emotional stakes of the character's journey.

Rape and sexual assault are also frequently used as a sort of narrative currency to try and raise the emotional stakes and heighten the dramatic tension for gamers.

Not exact matches

He may be sicker than Hank Moody or Larry David, but he's also a far richer figure, and in his own strange way, just as universal, thanks to the transcendent performance of Michael C. Hall, who deepens every sick joke and raises the stakes on every emotional twist.

Nichols is in full control of the emotional beats, the raising of the stakes, and the deepening investment by the audience.

The relationship that ensues between them raises the picture's emotional stakes to devastating heights (or lows, depending on your perspective on romance).

I didn't check out Resident Evil 6, but overacting and pointlessly «raising the stakes» through weak emotional contrivances is pretty much a staple of the series.

I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).