Sentences with phrase «story at its core»

Instead, it weaves them into the story at a core thematic level.

Critics Consensus: Well - acted and fiendishly frightening with an emotionally affecting story at its core, It amplifies the horror in Stephen King's classic story without losing touch with its heart.

Stardust plays like The Princess Bride as if directed by Terry GIlliam (a la The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits) on a more subdued day, with eccentric characters and a meandering storyline that entertain more through visual confections, artistic flourishes, and deep character quirks galore that it does through the gist of the story at its core.

The problem is that these moments are rather few in what might have worked better as a character study, as the story at its core is not particularly new or interesting, and plods along to a predictable beat to its ultimate conclusion that feels too long in coming.

It is a love story at its core with intelligent characters and writing.

Hotel Transylvania 2 review: A perfectly harmless monster movie with a great story at its core.

From the perfect production design and washed out look, to the cast and lead performance by Oscar Isaac (who I will be rooting for to get the Oscar) as folk musician Llewyn Davis, to the amusing but tragic story at its core, everything about this film is near perfect.

A Wes Anderson movie with a blossoming love story at its core!

Not only is there a heartfelt love story at its core, but the movie intelligently deals with issues surrounding race, religion, family and even illness.

David Frankel's «The Big Year» is as harmless as comedies come; it's not particularly funny or memorable, but it has a surprisingly sweet story at its core that makes up for the fact that, no matter how hard the film tries, the sport of birding just isn't a very exciting subject to base a movie around.

And the haunting story at its core speaks loudly.

«La La Land» captured some hearts last year, including mine, with its way of making a musical number both over-the-top and intimate — of finding the tiny, personal story at its core.

But its characters are also wrought with angst and loss and longing and tears in the rain — and there's a proper, adult love story at its core.

Apatow has made another lengthy (too long) comedy that is filled up with an outstanding casting of supporting players, and a sweet story at its core, but in my opinion it isn't as memorable as his previous movies.

I was very impressed by what the Russo Brothers have delivered, it's an exciting action movie with some incredible set pieces (the car chase scene alone is fantastic, along with everything else) and a compelling story at its core that progresses the characters.

Too many kooky supporting characters are given the spotlight for reasons unknown, and while they might be funny at times, the constant asides do detract from the dramatic momentum of the emotional story at its core.

Dramatic and thrillingly written with an uncanny eye for glimpses of beauty in a ravaged landscape, Fallen Land is a love story at its core, and an unusually assured first novel by award - winning young author Taylor Brown.

«Need for Speed Payback is a game with a brilliant story at its core.

With story at the core of everything that Marvel creates, who better to team with than master storytellers Telltale Games.

Not exact matches

Relationships with customers and its employees, says Trinity president Anthony Magaraci, are at the core of its story.

You have set a goal of becoming an entrepreneur and at your core believe that you can become one of the success stories.

Not everyone has friends (or family) in high places, but it is important to look at the back - story and social proof of the core team, and make any interesting differences obvious to journalists.

But at its core, it's a story that he's told his whole career — someone seeking acceptance.

Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).

This isn't a «distraction,» but gets right at core concerns about Trump and his ability to govern — the Daniels story is one of many warnings that suggest Trump believes that laws and policies that limit the behavior of ordinary humans simply don't apply to him.

This community has as its core a mystery to the human experience, and a sense that story and imagery can persuade at least as well as logical, more strictly factual arguments.

At its core, this story is another installment of the HR - ification of society.

I'm a lot more interested in the humanity that's at the core of these stories.

But beyond all of its memorable visuals, huge set pieces and bold creative choices (it's four hours long and takes some liberties with the text), The Ten Commandments is at its core a compelling story about a man's calling from God and his struggles with his own humanity.

The show is about the Doctor and his companions and their adventures in time and space, sure, but really at the core, it's a story about hope and goodness, life and the sacredness of our stories.

And it's not as if that message is tacked onto the movie in an arbitrary way; it's really placed at the core of the story, and it bleeds through every scene, almost to the point of overkill.

At its core, Pixar's newest film Coco is about remembering our loved ones long after they've passed and sharing their stories for years to come.

At its core, however, there's a powerful story being told about how extreme, religious dogma can both shape and ruin us.

At its core, The Great Gatsby is a story of entropy.

Choice quote from Universal co-chairman Donna Langley, «At its core, Fifty Shades of Grey is a complex love story, requiring a delicate and sophisticated hand to bring it to the big screen.»

calling a story a myth is not the same as saying that story isn't true; to the contrary, it is testifying that an essential Truth rests at its very core.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

As a pregnant mama of twins and with three kids already at home, these stories cut me to the core.

There are interesting stories about Common Core and standardized testing all over the country, but if you want real entertainment, you have to look closely at Florida.

Our current story for the origin of the heavy elements has at its core a recycling program on the grandest of scales.

Carver, like Dubus, shies not away from difficult situations, but his open - eyed starkness is not to be confused with indifference; at the core of his stories is a softness akin to the coziest of reading nooks.

After listening to dozens of stories shared by «mainstream» people who explored BDSM with partners, a new definition emerged for me: BDSM is, at its core, just fantasy.

At its core, «Girlboss» is a feminist story of a woman who had nothing and created everything she wanted.

At its core, the story is about recognizing the value of a person, despite their size, as Horton, an enormous elephant, becomes aware of a voice coming from a small speck of matter, and comes to learn there's an entire city of Whos on that speck, led by the Mayor, who's never had much to do, as nothing bad has ever happened.

At its core, there's a surprisingly sweet love story here.

Boyle takes his wildly high - energy visual aesthetic and applies it to a story that, at its core, is rather sweet and traditionally crowdpleasing.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

Credit goes to the writers for ensuring that the constant wisecracks, digs at other superheroes or pop culture references, don't distract a viewer from the story's emotional core and it's protagonist's moral ambiguity.

A few core story beats aren't fully realized and there are some awkward moments of truth and fiction balancing but, nevertheless, the movie delivers a brutal and exceptionally honest look at the Bondurant Boys and their fascinating (not to mention dangerous) bootlegging days.

Based on the true story of college - student Nancy Walsh, this above - average TV - movie focuses on the family dynamic issues often found at the core of the eating disorder known as anorexia.