Sentences with phrase «tale than genre»

Critic Consensus: The Transfiguration tells a quieter, more deliberately paced tale than genre fans might expect, but for those with the patience to let it sink in, it offers its own rewards.

Critics Consensus: The Transfiguration tells a quieter, more deliberately paced tale than genre fans might expect, but for those with the patience to let it sink in, it offers its own rewards.

Not exact matches

A meandering, overindulgent tale of revenge that plays like an homage to a genre that never existed, Django Unchained ironically feels more bound - up than any Tarantino movie before it.

Indeed, relaying the tale with a standard narrative approach would have relegated the film to the realms of yet another superhero movie, rather than a spirited take on the tried and tested genre.

Call it a haunted house / high school romp / demon killer / surreal fairy tale: a stylized candy - colored bomb of a ghost story more jaw - droppingly unreal than scary, an experimental piece of pop - art genre filmmaking with a cartoonish flair to its art direction, special effects and graphic expressionism.

Language: Japanese Genre: Anime / Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: Isao Takahata Actors: Chloë Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen Plot: Based on the oldest surviving, and one of the most famous, Japanese folklore tales - an old man who makes a living selling bamboo comes across a princess, no bigger than his finger, in one of the plants.

Still, this tale of a high school boy whose party to woo the girl of his dreams is ruined by a zombie invasion is smarter and more fun than most micro-budget genre fare.

For a start, for large chunks of A Knight's Tale, the period seems less important than the genre.

No simple morality tale and far more than a legal thriller, The 57 Bus is a genre - bending book that reveals the tangled complexities of gender, race, crime and justice in modern - day America.

The genre is an offshoot of an old example — point and click adventure games — which featured gameplay seldom more complex than a jigsaw puzzle, and which lived or died on their ability to tell tales and create worlds.

After all, the genre just feels right on a portable system as there's nothing better than enjoying a tale of romance in your own bed or on the go.

Tales of Vesperia — I am already having a fairly tough time managing the abundance of JRPGs available on the Xbox One today, but I am a glutton for punishment and I enjoy the genre, so I think I can handle more than the 1 solitary title available.

People unfamiliar with the genre may take twice than that to beat it, but I thought it was shorter than telltalle adventures like Tales of Monkey Island or whatever.