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Some credit has to go to S. Craig Zahler's excellent screenplay, which gradually reveals a more complex character underneath Chicory's buffoonish surface, although Jenkins» ability to create such a genuine and sympathetic character from the page is what helps elevate Bone Tomahawk from a low - budget genre pic to a future cult classic.

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In those shows, she evolved from a bitchy cheerleader into one of the most sympathetic and well - rounded characters in the cast.

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As the multiple narrative strands move from character to character — a sympathetic insurance assessor (John Ortiz), a curmudgeonly pack rat (Bruce Dern), a widow (Burstyn) picking through the remnants after a house fire — the would - be medley quickly devolves into a series of actorly monologues on a thesis.

A Most Wanted Man, like such other le Carré adaptations as The Tailor of Panama and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, has been hard - wired with an impenetrable narrative that holds the viewer at arms length from start to finish, with the convoluted, confusing atmosphere compounded by a total absence of interesting or sympathetic characters.

Considering how his most potentially sympathetic character handled her real estate interests, we are forced to the understanding that she's a flake prone to withdrawing from responsibility.

The film's most memorable moments belong to Streep's sometimes awkwardly sympathetic character as she enters yet another boardroom populated by men or, later in the story, when she emerges from the Supreme Court to find a sea of upturned faces of young women there to cheer her on.

It's a seemingly foolproof premise that's employed to distinctly (and consistently) underwhelming effect by director Johannes Roberts, as the filmmaker, working from a screenplay cowritten with Noel Clarke, Dave Fairbanks, and Marc Small, offers up a narrative that's been jam - packed with generic, hackneyed elements that slowly - but - surely drain one's interest - with, for example, the movie's absence of sympathetic characters growing more and more problematic as time progresses.

Far from the stilted caricatures of the Johns Wayne and Ford, these days Native Americans are more likely to be represented on screen as sympathetic characters, which is refreshing, because after decades of dehumanization at the hands of Hollywood, they finally have gotten a chance to shine by occasionally telling stories that feature them if not as heroes, at least as human.

It casts McCandless in a saintly light - likely a pretty big stretch - but necessarily makes him a sympathetic character and strongly underscores the powerful message we're meant to take from the movie.

There are some telling moments when they discuss material that was excised from the final cut, such as scenes that might have made other characters in the film more sympathetic, but unfortunately none of this footage has been preserved on this disc.

The not - entirely - sympathetic central character aside, the movie also deserves recognition for its unexpectedly intimate focus on Vinny's close - knit Rhode Island brood (whose outrageousness Younger claims to have toned down for the movie), from his devout Catholic mother Louise (Katey Sagal) who can't bear to watch his fights to his fiancé - berating sister.

Scott B. Smith (The Ruins) adapts this screenplay from his book, and features very sympathetic characters and realistic motivations.

Though not a reprisal of the Fisher character, Schwartzman's performance in Moonrise Kingdom as a sympathetic, older Khaki Scout helping out a couple of love - struck kids brings an inevitable warmth to the heart of any Wes Anderson fan, for it's as if an old friend from the past has reemerged to help out new, familiar companions.

Similarly, the lead performers who inhabit the characters in their somewhat hermetically sealed environs generally deliver competent performances: In particular Cooke, looking somewhat like a hybrid of Christina Ricci and Chloe Grace Moretz concocted in a Tim Burton lab experiment, fares well shifting gears effectively between the vulnerable, victimized Jane and the menacing, malevolent Evey; Richards gives her otherwise = underdeveloped role real pop, as smartly sex - kittenish as they come; and Harris utterly dominates the proceedings with his intuitive ability to shift Coupland from sympathetic to suspicion on a dime.

What separates «Ex Machina» from all those other movies about the potential dangers of sentient A.I., however, is the addition of Gleeson's character to the equation, because it uses Caleb's humanity / moral compass against the audience to make you sympathetic towards Ava even though virtually every film about robots has taught us not to trust them.

The narrative, then, becomes «even bad cops can be good if you dig deep enough,» and the movie bends toward this narrative from the moment when Willoughby — perhaps the movie's only truly sympathetic character — enters the room and forgives Dixon's racism after the «nigger torturing» gag.

And so just as Leno's crossdressing burlesques are actually rather sympathetic to the unfairness of being a woman in the world, so is Golem the movie too, via Lizzie's backstory; other characters have secrets, as well, that narrowminded societal bigotry prevents them from revealing.

There are some solid performances, notably from Rosamund Pike, who gives a subtly sympathetic performance as Miriam, Wife Number Three; while Paul Giamatti is wholly believable as Barney, who sheds the television producer cliché as the movie progresses and becomes a fully three dimensional, likeably - flawed character, although I did feel that some of the later, present day scenes could have done with some judicious editing.

Much of the film's novelty derives from its characters, the sort one almost never finds in «commercial» films — both flawed and sympathetic — and it keeps them vivid, ambiguous, and three - dimensional throughout.

Sicario: With Sicario, Denis Villeneuve finally stumbles after an impressive run of stellar films - as the movie suffers from an often incoherent storyline that's compounded by an absence of sympathetic characters.

Fiennes is both menacing and surprisingly sympathetic in the more fleshed - out role of Francis Dolarhyde (even if he's far from «ugly,» as the character is often called); Philip Seymour Hoffman is amusingly schlubby as skeevy tabloid reporter Freddy Lounds.

Nichols invests in his characters and he gets uniformly excellent performances from his cast, especially the cautiously reserved Edgerton and the charismatic, sympathetic Driver.

It's a vibe that's perpetuated by everything from Roy Webb's lush score to Ted Tetzlaff's gorgeous cinematography to the uniformly effective performances, with, in terms of the latter, Grant and Bergman's chemistry together ensuring that one can't help but root for their characters» triumph over Rains» nefarious (yet somewhat sympathetic) Sebastian.

The film runs at a very Bollywood - lean 104 minutes, and while this is in many ways a good thing, the film could have used more screen time to properly cap off that concern, which as it stands is more or less tied up by a less than satisfying voiceover, which prevents Sameer from ever truly redeeming himself as any sort of sympathetic character.

The sympathetic side is in treating its characters as people who want to go back to their ordinary lives, realize that they need help, and want to protect the people they love from the encroaching reality that an ordinary life seems impossible, because help seems unlikely to ever come to them.

It's been noted that none of the characters from this movie are that sympathetic, mostly because they seem to occupy the roles of noir stereotypes; yet at least for me, this didn't make their story any less intriguing.

Do Aidan's flaws prevent him from being a sympathetic character?

I would have appreciated hearing more from the less sympathetic characters such as Gloria & Maura.

Well, yes, but I'm as sympathetic a reader as there is, and I didn't get any sense of individuality from these characters.

Edward might choose the worst imaginable moment to reveal the secret from his past to his wife, Holly, but he remains a sympathetic character, even when his failings are most obvious.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

The main character is a relatable and sympathetic young man who takes the reader through various stages of his life, beginning from birth to adulthood and beyond.

The Nico Dauphiné that emerges is a far cry from the sympathetic character portrayed in «Cat Fight» — where, for example, writer John Carey laments: «Unfortunately, the strange case of the accused cat poisoner didn't end well.»

He comes off as a stern, militaristic jerk, but discovering his true motives turn him from Videogame Bad Guy into a sympathetic, tragic character.

By changing the tempo from an adventure to a disaster scenario, Lara is a more identifiable and sympathetic character.

At the center of every Rockstar experience is a sympathetic protagonist whose bad deeds can't stop the audience from rooting for them, but prior to Grand Theft Auto V, these leading characters lacked a certain level of complexity.

Heck, even the main character from Detention was sympathetic enough for me to care about her and make me want to help her overcome her troubles.

Journalists clearly are not doing their jobs when it comes to checking the basic veracity of the accusation, but now a bigger question needs to be asked: How worried were the «IPCC affiliated or sympathetic scientists» about the soundness of their science assessments, if some in their midst felt a need to use baseless character assassination in order to persuade their fellow scientists to ignore material from scientist critics?