Sentences with phrase «standard period drama»

Not exact matches

In the wrong hands, Indignation might have become a standard exercise in genre conventions, mixing period drama with a dash of Jewish neuroticism and a pinch of manic pixie dream girl.

A period drama that stands apart from the sumptuous love affairs, corsets, and scandals of your standard Hollywood Jane Austen fare, Babette's feast is more about potential romance, unspoken desires, and unfulfilled dreams — and is all the more affecting for it.

A nifty twist on the standard ghost story, this British period drama starts extremely well and then slips into overwrought melodrama.

A strong sense of style, an observant screenplay, and the sort of performances that elevate standard fare into the realm of memorable buoy the picture over many of its rough patches and redundancies, but Lin needs to squeeze out his narrative with greater urgency and balance: long periods of high school drama and exposition separated by badly justified epiphanies undermine the picture's coherence and flow.

While this biopic has the standard sumptuous production values of a British period drama, it's also a lot more complex than expected.

It's your standard issue Wong romantic drama dressed up, not as a period piece or gangster picture, but instead as a martial - arts epic.