Sentences with phrase «restless camerawork»

And though there are some touching moments in the film — Shannon's mix of positivity and encroaching grief is especially heartbreaking — vast swaths of it don't work: The restless camerawork is unmotivated and showy (Gomez - Rejon was once Martin Scorsese's personal assistant), the lunchroom cliques in Greg's high school are ancient teen - movie anthropology, and the short films are the sort of one - joke gimmick that Wes Anderson would compress into a single montage.

The one major misstep is in the restless camerawork, which bobs and weaves and zooms and zags with nausea - inducing regularity.

Singer has also distanced himself from the stylistic curlicues (restless camerawork, showy editing) that define his own previous work, bringing X-Men's characters and concept basic — that America is a never - ending cycle of oppression — to the fore.

Not exact matches

Such unforgettable specifics — which range from Jo's half - shut right eye to an opening - night run - in with sketchy cops — bring this crazy milieu to life, while the restless handheld camerawork and giddy jump - cut style give things the renegade twist van Groeningen is looking for.