Sentences with phrase «rich character studies»

For director David Gordon Green, who cut his teeth on rich character studies like George Washington, Undertow, All the Real Girls and Mud, this moves closer to those films than his recent forays into flops like Our Brand is Crisis or wild comedy like Pineapple Express and Eastbound and Down.

Certainly the subject iself is compelling enough: A few years back, Russian master Alexander Sokurov examined the same transitional moment from the perspective of Hirohito himself in «The Sun,» resulting in one of the decade's most psychologically rich character studies.

Of the 30 - odd movies Allen has made as a writer or director all have shown off his effortless flair for storytelling, formulating rich character studies with subtle (and sometimes not - so - subtle) subtexts, and playing with plot structures.

The Civil War movie doubles as a rich character study for Tony Stark, allowing Robert Downey Jr. the chance to showcase a wide range of emotions in what may be the actor's overall most nuanced and multi-faceted performance as the beloved snarky tech genius yet.

There's no rich character study or meditations on issues, it just goes straight for fisticuffs and feet and loses all semblance of story and reality by the time the film turns for home.

This is a rich character study, and Plummer — very fine as J. Paul Getty III in last year's All the Money in the World — is excellent, inhabiting the heartbreaking world of this kid as if he lived it himself.

Not exact matches

«In a Lonely Place» is a strong and insightful character study into the volitile central character, though, and the supporting characters and performances are all rich.

The miniseries format shoehorns Strout's collection of 13 linked narratives into its strange, slack rhythms, neither the concise character study of a made - for - TV movie nor the rich group portrait of a full - length anthology.

The feature directorial debut of Aaron Sorkin, Molly's Game is a slight biography, a rambling exposé of an underground poker game featuring plenty of rich and / or famous people, and a shallow psychological study of its main character.

The film mostly succeeds on all fronts, crafting a rich and thoughtful character study of a man going through a real identity crisis, unsure of which world he truly belongs to, if any.

«McDonagh's latest work is simply exceptional; a film so rich with narrative fluidity, profane laughs, standout performances and complex character studies that its tremendous emotional hits — often arriving when you least expect them — might just leave you agog.»

FIRST REFORMED is not only a rich and detailed character study, but it also serves as a timely and scathing critique of politics, the church, and society's middle finger to the environment.

Woody is often sharp with character study and Jasmine is something else, but his portrait of San Francisco working class folk is less convincing and carried only by the strength of a typically excellent cast (it also co-stars Louis C. K., Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg) and an honesty and commitment that the socially poised rich of the film lack.

This burnished gem from Chile is a rich and poetic character study of a woman on the look out for love.

Instead, he arrives at a state of profound indifference, as «Winter Sleep» shifts from a restrained character study on the darker ramifications of affluence as its solitary protagonist eventually finds himself too rich to care.

But on top of that, the film is meticulously crafted by one of my favorite young filmmakers, Xavier Dolan, who gives us an incredibly rich, intimate Quebecois character study of mother and son.