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«An exciting tale that combines twisting investigative and legal subplots with a character seeking redemption.

Midwest Book Review's MBR Bookwatch features a fantastic review of Saving Grace in its February 2013 issue: ``... an exciting tale that combines twisting investigative and legal subplots with a character seeking redemption... an exhilarating mystery with a touch of voodoo.»

Director Dexter Fletcher keeps the audience fully engages by subplots with Eddie's hilariously loving parents, Oscar winner Jim Broadbent as the Olympic announcer, and even Oscar winner Christopher Walken as Peary's former mentor.

There are subplots with Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle and Laurence Fishbourne that all could have been intriguing, but we get the glossy outline version, rather than an actual story.

Harry Potter 2 is a picture that allows its narrative to dictate its special effects and juggles an extraordinary multiplicity of grave subplots with grace and humility.

Baby Driver has enough subplots with adopted blind fathers, nightmarish flashbacks and dark character motivations, without the need for Lily James (Cinderella) flirting around a diner.

Some of the subplots with an unclear relationship to the main plot were removed or replaced.

There are subplots with Martha's roommate, whom hates this «Mr. Right» guy, which never get's resolved, and I felt it needed to be, as they were best friends after all.

We get a subplot with Cal and Emily's 13 - year - old son, Robbie, who is madly in love with the 17 - year - old baby sitter (Robbie has a younger sister, whom we don't learn that much about) named Jessica.

This is further epitomized through the romantic subplot with Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley), a liberal firebrand, photographer, and exotic exercise instructor.

I onl wish The subplot with Marion and the wild kids in the end battle had been explained more thoroughly.

Though the movie has more than its share of memorable scenes (from the brainwashing flashbacks, to Frank Sinatra doing karate, to Angela Lansbury's third - act soliloquy), there's too much dead space in between, including a superfluous subplot with Janet Leigh (who curiously gets third billing) that could have been cut entirely.

A subplot with Dean Cain as the professor's wife's brother brings the film's one big surprise and packs the the strongest emotional impact.

Thankfully, screenwriters Matt Lopez and Mark Bomback don't trip over themselves trying to awkwardly add in a romantic subplot with Jack and Alex.

While Ferrell is excellent once again as the mustachioed anchorman, Paul Rudd and David Koechner are pushed to the sidelines for much of the film, while Steve Carell's simple - minded weatherman is given a romantic subplot with Kristen Wiig's similarly awkward secretary that isn't as funny as intended.

Gleeson's character could come across as a real jackass, but he doesn't — he's a deeply flawed and mistake - making human being, but ultimately one with a really good heart, as evidenced by the not - quite - throwaway brief subplot with his dying mother.

Then a subplot with Natalie Portman arises before quickly vanishing.

The remake, for example, cuts out the entirety of the subplot with Oskar's neighbors as well as the scenes with Oskar's dad.

Adonis» romantic subplot with the self - styled FKA twigs - lite chanteuse downstairs (Tessa Thompson), such a frequent stumbling block with sports movies, unfolds believably without eating up too much of the film's somewhat unwieldy two - plus hours.

On the opposite side of the coin, there is a subplot with psychic characters that isn't nearly as engrossing as the succubus business.

A subplot with a potential girlfriend doesn't fade away out of bad storytelling — Chazelle just understands that it stops mattering.

If a few tonal lurches make BlacKkKlansman a touch uneven, and a romantic subplot with Laura Harrier's student radical doesn't quite land, its comic beats give a flavor of what a Spike Lee Naked Gun might look like (awesome, by the way) and that welcome impassioned, earnest side of the director is never far from the surface.

And he winds up being convinced to go for a ride on the Spatterbox, the yacht of a well - to - do blowhard, with Danny, where they endure a number of close calls (depicted unconvincingly with rear projection scenery) before getting lost at sea, a subplot with all the drama of an «ALF» episode.

There's a shaky subplot with a kitchen worker played by Martin Compston and a much better one with Gillian Anderson's wealthy resort guest, but the primary focus of the picture remains on Simon and his relationship with his sister Louise.

Barry Fitzgerald is terrific as the aged priest who gets gently pushed aside by Crosby, and there's a moving subplot with an aspiring singer and the landlord's son she falls in love with.

It's certainly not unfunny, just mildly amusing at best (though a running subplot with Murray as a neighborly uncle, or something, to a group of local black kids is completely out of place), with Allen still able to hold his own onscreen and deliver one liners, even making the most of the slightly worn and familiar zingers he throws out here.

As for the subplot with the nurse (Charlie Day) and John's ex-girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), it's built up to for far too long, considering how anticlimactic the sole encounter between all three of them actually is.

Dinklage gets a charming but empty subplot with a fellow train enthusiast, middle schooler Raven Goodwin.

With comedy that trumpets stupidity, made up of shouty non-sequiturs, Brick is also shoehorned into a romantic subplot with an equally air - headed Kristen Wiig, who manages to show Carrell up at his own game.

The problem is that Glaeken is ultimately supposed to be the hero of the story, and although Glenn's travelling watchman appears throughout the film, his importance remains a mystery until the very end — he's a cipher and his romantic subplot with Eva seems especially tacked on.

Hardy's rogue agent, Ricki Tarr, delivers a romantic subplot with a jaw - smacking tenderness, while Cumberbatch almost steals the film from under Oldman's nose with a superb heist scene.

I mean, there's a whole subplot with the cops on the monster's trail.

Rabbit's the biggest victim of this: he's still the film's «rookie,» but he's a gormless innocent who, despite his visible middle age, gets a sexy subplot with French - Canadian ingenue Genevieve Aubois (Emmanuelle Chriqui), whose character mostly exists as eye candy and a half - hearted conduit for more jokes about French accents.

Pratt is also stuck in a half - baked romantic subplot with Bryce Dallas Howard, who co-stars as Claire, an all - business operations executive.

Early comments from TJ Miller implied that Weasel was going to have his own subplot with Dopinder but that's nothing in Deadpool 2, so what happened?

Its Chinese stars are given little time to shine, save for Tian, and her storyline is cluttered with a stiff romantic subplot with William that feels more afterthought that earned.

There's also a romantic subplot with a couple of other soldiers, and frequent musical interludes from The Andrews Sisters to keep things lively.

A subplot with a holographic AI / companion (Ana de Armas: Overdrive, War Dogs) plays like a straight - up rerun of 2014's Her (only it embraces the associated clichés instead of upending them).

While he should be warming up to Mason and Cummings, Dreyfuss is busy in the play from hell subplot with Paul Benedict as a misguided but insistent director.

It doesn't help that he gets caught in a ridiculous «we're in love after a day» romance subplot with Makenzie Leigh's Faison, a cheerleader who takes a liking to him.

He's a nasty son of a bitch and his twisted romantic subplot with Harley Quinn is the most compelling.

The entire romantic subplot with Nikki and the ticking clock device of Beachum's new job are filler material that only adds to Beachum's pride and lack of attention, traits that are clear even without these subplots.

The romantic subplot with Shailene Woodley is misguided and flat, but the story of Edward Snowden is an important one and Stone is the right filmmaker to tell it.

Then there are the fan - vexing elements of his supposed half - human heritage and a strong romantic subplot with his companion Grace (a doctor who performs heart surgery right after going to the opera).

Jeff's subplot with his long lost love Liz is more promising and works out exactly how it would in real life, so here is a big kudos for first time screenwriter Derek Connolly for that.

A romantic subplot with Ann - Margret and Arkin simply reminds us that she's been playing love interest to aged cranks since 1993's Grumpy Old Men, while he's been moonlighting as dying granddad since 2006's Little Miss Sunshine.

Cemiria Dawn, the creator of the petition, then goes on to provide a bulleted list of itemized complaints about the film, ranging everywhere from Luke Sykwalker's characterization to the «Cheap, sometimes childish humor» to the entire Canto Bight subplot with Rose and Finn.

I'll find funny if the reason Samus looks so angry in Samus Returns is because of that romantic subplot with Sylux.

Not exact matches

Seeing a long - labored - over novel with a terrorism subplot rendered instantly unpublishable by September 11.

Their subplot was melodramatic and didn't feel like it worked with the rest of the film.