Sentences with phrase «story veers»

Chastain has much better chemistry with co-stars Viola Davis and Isabelle Huppert than with her on - screen husband (played by McAvoy), while the thrown - together love story veers between life - affirming artificiality and self - serious melodrama

Although the story veers from the original tale, this adaptation by Andrew Kevin Walker (writer of Seven and Fight Club) manages to pay homage to Irving while modernizing it.

Using archival footage of the riots, the King beating, the corrupt cops, and the riots, one would assume Erguven is sympathetic, but then her story veers in the opposite direction.

There is an eventual confrontation between the forces of reason and those of madness, but the story veers a little too much away from Brad's point of view to remain entirely engaging.

Surely, then, there must be a reason that the story veers away from that subject on a seeming whim and mostly ignores the characters who turn out to be central to the movie's final lesson.

This could have been such a tonal disaster if one considers how wildly the story veers from Hollywood production meetings to CIA offices to an embassy in Iran.

But then the story veers away from Saul and the tragic events in Jerusalem to follow Philip to Samaria and on to Gaza.

With four main characters, caught up in a melodrama about divorce, the risk of this story veering into one dimensional histrionics is high, but Farhadi navigates it thanks to an almost novelistic drawing of his characters and narrative.

In my initial forays into 100 - word stories, my stories veered toward 150 words or more.

Not exact matches

It's nice to see Pixar veering away from sequels and heading back to the crazy creative concepts that made movies like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc so much fun.

For Colin Kaepernick, who will turn 30 on Nov. 3, having already passed for more than 12,000 yards and run for more than 2,300 yards since arriving in the NFL in 2011, the story of his football career seems to have veered into one about what athletes can say, or not say, or do, or not do.

For a while, as the story and the Black Panther veer here and there, jumping from Wakanda to Busan, South Korea, the filmmakers seem as if they're simply going to deliver a remix of James Bond with a touch of Spidey shenanigans.

It feels like there's so much more to this story that's missing, either from the interview subjects» reticence to share too much or the filmmakers reluctance to embrace more of the Cold War paranoia thriller trappings the story can veer into.

Though the film's offbeat tone veers a little too far into absurdity at times, particularly the scenes involving House's cartoonish social worker, it helps to freshen up an otherwise familiar story.

Ambiguous or open - ended stories are fine, but Summer of Love veered towards frustration once or twice.

It introduces itself as a noir murder mystery, but seamlessly veers into a story of man in love with a dancer, looking for redemption in his twilight.

Contrived, glib and cheerfully formulaic, David Dobkin's film veers between a rather plodding murder case and a much more interesting underlying family saga, and takes its time to tell a story that could have been trotted out in 90 minutes.

The Quiet Ones leaps off from that premise — and markets itself with a «based on true events» pitch line — but after several screenwriters took their turns at the story, it ultimately veers far afield: University professor Joseph Coupland (played with a perfect blend intellectual arrogance and charismatic follow - me guruism by Jared Harris of Mad Men), brilliant but bristling at the restrictive old - school attitudes toward his groundbreaking case study, removes his star subject Jane Harper (Bates Motel's Olivia Cooke) to a deserted, dilapidated country estate to be studied by his collegiate team, including a randy post-Mod couple (Erin Richards and Rory Fleck - Byrne) and soft - spoken cameraman Brian (Sam Clafin of The Hunger Games).

Regarding Lady Bird, her first solo writing credit, Gerwig is careful to issue the story's «semiautobiographical» disclaimer, lest any of the characters or circumstances veer off the «truth,» which has a tendency to morph, depending on who's owning it that day, Mercury's retrograde status, and the air temperature atop Kilimanjaro at noon on Tuesdays.

Like the title suggests, the film provides a good return to the story of Michael Myers after the side step that was Halloween III: Season of the Witch which veered terribly off track.

It is a story that starts off with untold promise, only to veer off ever so slightly into the grotesque, like a string arrangement that starts out gorgeous only to veer off - key.

The story of Eilis Lacey isn't suffused with the kind of impoverished anguish one might associate with stories of postwar immigration, but it still doesn't lack for emotion and quiet wit, rendered sensitively by Crowley and the screenwriter Nick Hornby and anchored by a confident lead performance from Saoirse Ronan as Eilis, who saves the film whenever it threatens to veer into formulaic territory.

Some will complain that the quirkiness is overdone and that the film veers a bit towards sentimentality in the third act, but it's mostly all acceptable in service to a story of incredibly interesting people.

In the long line of romance on the big screen, films usually tend to veer in one of two directions: straight - up romantic comedies, or dramatic, sometimes tragic, love stories.

Hence, all the marketing for Love Happens, from the trailer to the ads to the title itself, veer steeply away from the very real premise of the movie into the romance that happens amidst the movie's core story of a man coming to grips with the death of his beloved wife.

The most anticipated of the three by far, True Detective resets itself from the first season, beginning with a whole new story that has nothing to do with yellow royalty and that veers nowhere near the supernatural.

The irony is that McDonagh isn't interested in anything as cut - and - dry as a David - versus - Goliath story or a feminist revenge yarn; the empowering version of this movie is the one the writer - director only appears to be making, before veering off into thornier, more ethically complicated dramatic territory.

At the very least, the thrills come thick and fast, as the story proves to be one that can veer down any avenue at any given moment.

It seemed out of place in this story, that never veers too far away from the genre but that still doesn't take itself too seriously.

Though at times it threatens to veer off into wistfulness, the film succeeds in dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust from a child's perspective because the story - telling is direct and forthright.

Things are never exactly what they seem here — but there's a deeper, more authentic story Reitman and Cody are interested in telling, even when — maybe especially when — the film veers toward fantasy.

The first Deadpool was mostly very good, but veered perhaps a bit too close to the superhero conventions it was parodying by boiling the plot down to an archetypical hero origin story, except with more dick jokes.

Anyone who has ever watched TV has probably caught a showing of Step Brothers, Adam McKay's 2008 comedy starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly as a pair of frustratingly immature step - siblings who veer wildly between being best friends and mortal enemies, and now Ferrell has shared a story pitch for where a possible...

Wilderpeople is an unconventional spin on the tried - and - true old mentor meeting his younger match that manages to be action packed, unpredictable and heartfelt without veering into the saccharine territory oft trod by coming of age stories.

Italian cinema has recently veered into cinéma - vérité films that, while being raw and emotional, tend to highlight stories from disadvantaged communities and lend voices to those whose stories stay far away from the news.

It's a strange dichotomy considering just how bleak the material can be at times, measuring the weight of moral sin versus one's survival, but while it veers dangerously close to melodrama in the final act, it's a fascinating story that finally makes good on the potential that Gray showcased so many years ago with «The Yards.»

Still, what actually matters are the central characters, all of whom bring the necessary charm and pathos to keep the story from veering into the sort of reductive children's films that can not relate to anyone above the age of seven.

That's not this story, of course, and Muschietti veers wildly in his depiction of the demon and its methods.

There may be moments that veer this picture off course but in its entirety, Joe features a great story where characters put their pain on the line in their pursuit of survival.

Set in New York City in the early 1900s, The Museum of Extraordinary Things veers from the extravagant mansions dotting the Upper West Side to the foul conditions of the overcrowded tenements on the Lower East Side to the seaside apartments stretched across Coney Island to tell the interwoven stories of Coralie Sardie and Eddie Cohen.

Halfway through the book, it seemed like the story lost steam and veered off into a completely different direction than it originally intended... leaving me wondering what the heck was going on.

Talking cockroach butlers, a Russian colonel who takes orders from his digestive tract, and a villain called the Belgian Prankster, who wants to either destroy the world or tell the worst joke in history, are just a few of the blatantly weird characters that veer the story into the ludicrous at nearly every turn.

Before writing Kaufman's Hill, it was my meditative essays that often veered toward the personal; my fiction was about stories I made up.

And in a practical sense, Colleen Hoover's initial post on this issue of trigger warnings was good: Much of storytelling craft involves surprise, stories that go a direction you hadn't seen coming as a reader, stories that veer into something a reader may not know or might not have experienced.

Behaviorally, people may ignore these potentially profitable, yet also perhaps more boring companies, and instead veer toward potentially more exciting, yet also less stable, growth and lottery - like stocks (for example, because the more exciting stocks tend to be featured in colorful news stories).

While each new level does come with a pretty hefty difficulty increase, there's no veering from the path when it comes to the «story» behind each scenario.

I constantly find my self veering away from the main objective marker while forgetting all about the main story; yes the exploring in this game is almost on par with the main stuff, its that good and rewarding (and hard as F * sometimes).

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Quantic Dream are notorious for allowing their stories to get away from them, with proceedings often veering into complete lunacy and plot threads simply being left in the wind.

Art in this era has veered dramatically toward an approach that hasn't been seen in the West for more than 1,000 years: a concerted urge, almost a rage, to be totally communicative to the largest possible audiences, addressing cognoscenti, novices, and newcomers in the same register, telling stories of social, political, and philosophical conditions.