Sentences with phrase «sometimes evince»

Not exact matches

Most tantalizing, though, is Kylo Ren, whose history is a slow reveal, and whose turmoil, in the cold, counter-intuitive brand of intensity evinced by Adam Driver, is a wonderfully subtle thing in a story full of big explosions and a sometimes scenery - chewing, but always delightful, performance from Domhnall Gleeson, as General Hux of the First Order, which is the evil the successor to the evil Empire.

The films he made between these animated efforts — Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)-- were among his better works, as the former evinced a real sense of poignant feeling that sometimes gets lost in his penchant for irony and pastiche, while the latter was a marvelous screwball farce with a fantastic central performance by Ralph Fiennes.

The Techniscope format was a cheap way to get a widescreen image by only using half as much film as true CinemaScope (i.e., anamorphic) requires, and this presentation seems to reflect the reduced effective resolution of the material, evincing a softness around the edges that's sometimes exacerbated by missed focus.