Sentences with phrase «surprisingly poignant»

Defying their analytic origin, the images are surprisingly poignant.

Instead, the primary way to interact with your fellow players is by drawing and sharing heavily moderated art and messages in communal spaces, which can range from Spongebob Squarepants and 50 Shades of Grey jokes to to surprisingly poignant messages in a bottle.

A surprisingly poignant story of a family's love.

It's also funny and hell and surprisingly poignant.

Somewhere between Dawson's Creek and Welcome to the Doll House is this sharp, funny, and surprisingly poignant high school dram - edy (for lack of a better word).

Kung Fu Panda Year: 2008 Directors: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson Like Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, DreamWorks» Kung Fu Panda punctuates its light - hearted, comedic tone with surprisingly poignant moments along with nonstop homages to a giant list of truly classic Kung Fu films, often scene by scene.

It may be wishful thinking, but the global nihilism of his earlier projects now seems mere prelude to a surprisingly poignant meditation on fame and its lingering aftereffects.

With a surprisingly poignant and sad ending, this one is a keeper.

British writer and actor Phoebe Waller - Bridge plays the title role in this funny, highly profane but surprisingly poignant dramedy (originally a stage play) about a sexually compulsive woman in London.

Surprisingly poignant for a movie that turns America's pastime into a card - counting experiment — and filled with crackling dialogue from Oscar winners Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian — Moneyball focuses on the essential issue of baseball and of life: How do you measure human value?

The result is unconventional, funny and surprisingly poignant.

Like all Takahata's best work, it's weird and funny and almost surprisingly poignant.

Surprisingly poignant, and it proves Marilyn Monroe's point about aging: «Gravity gets us all in the end.»

Following in the footsteps of Studio Ghibli (which co-produced the film), Michael Dudok de Wit's «The Red Turtle» is a surprisingly poignant feature - length debut that proves animation can be just as effective as live action when done right.

Writer / director Mike White recognizes that innate contradiction and reconciles it in the biting satire «Brad's Status,» giving Stiller a juicy role that's sharply funny and surprisingly poignant.

Whether turning the spotlight on Jon's porn, his girlfriend's storybook romances, his dad's rabid sports fanaticism, or his sister's pervasive cell phone obsession, Don Jon is a witty, and surprisingly poignant, indictment on the addictive and often obstructive nature of seemingly harmless escapism.

Former indie wunderkind turned big budget comedy king, David Gordon Green returns to his roots with his sweetly eccentric, surprisingly poignant new film, Prince Avalanche.

Instead, it's a deliciously amusing and sometimes surprisingly poignant look at the difficulties of being a 15 - year old outsider whose chief goals in life are getting laid and making sure his parents don't split up.

The Disaster Artist is an endearing tale of friendship and chasing your dreams that packs a surprisingly poignant punch.

Despite its medically and romantically improbable beginning, the film becomes surprisingly poignant as the relationship and the epidemic progress.

Not exact matches

The inventors of slowcore make this already slow and rhythmic (and surprisingly spiritual) carol even more poignant

«I, Tonya» is funny when it wants to be, poignant when it needs to be and surprisingly effective in harnessing these deeper themes to a character who might otherwise be dismissed as a lightweight laughingstock.

It's a dizzyingly reflexive concept that could be too self - involved to really connect, but as our reviewer discovered, the fragmentary, impressionistic «Cameraperson» (often employing off - cuts of films she worked on) actually builds to «a surprisingly emotional and heartfelt film... Humanity permeates [the film], so as experimental as it is, it's also stirring and poignant, with a tangible sense of empathy intact in every frame...» [A]

But those flaws are easy enough to forgive in such an engaging, entertaining, and ultimately (surprisingly) poignant stance on the broken and dismissed.

Being Flynn does pick up the pieces in the final act to deliver a poignant tale of survival for both father and son and ends on a surprisingly positive note with both men coming to an amicable relationship.

As both a true crime diehard and a spiritual supporter of the high school genre, I found American Vandal to be the most surprisingly enjoyable, ticklingly clever, and ultimately poignant offering to come from Netflix's seemingly random lineup.

An endearing and diverting tale of friendship, creativity, and pursuing one's dreams, The Disaster Artist isn't just one of 2017's funniest films, it's also surprisingly one of the most poignant.

But I was blown away by how surprisingly powerful and poignant it was.

Moments both humorous and poignant characterize this surprisingly human account... but I'll leave you to discover them yourself.

Performed for the first time in its entirety by Los Angeles artists in 2017, the resulting audio is a surprisingly entertaining conversation both absurdist and poignant.