Sentences with phrase «stabs at dramatic»

There it was a stab at dramatic respectability that worked beyond anyone's expectations.

Wiig's already gotten a head - start with Hateship Loveship and Bridesmaids (to a lesser extent), but Hader is taking his first stab at dramatic acting with The Skeleton Twins.

Not exact matches

Film noir for physics geeks, The Big Bang... is a clever, if relentlessly dramatic (despite stabs at levity), existential detective story.

The extended monologues and the mounting dramatic twists feel like awkward stabs at profundity that hit and miss the mark in roughly equal proportion.

An exhilarating mix of dark comedy, white - knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides into Mexico, where mild - mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his back - stabbing business colleagues (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron), local drug lords and a morally conflicted black - ops mercenary (Sharlto Copley).

Coppola's second - guessing of her treatment turns the end of this otherwise breathtaking pastel wonderland into a shockingly uninvolved dramatic stab at insincere integrity, and it becomes almost impossible to give into the featherbed that Coppola lays out for us.

Discovery takes a dramatic, eight - episode stab at telling the story of hermit and domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski (Paul Bettany) and the FBI profiler, Jim Fitzgerald («Avatar's» Sam Worthington), who tracked him down in 1996.