Sentences with phrase «than a character study»

Only occasionally does a master director implode it from within (Martin Scorsese with Raging Bull, less a conventional underdog tale than a character study that puts us in the ring with a defiantly confrontational and horribly fascinating central figure).

Your main complaint seems to be that Howard likes, and focuses on, the admittedly more likable but, in your view, less interesting racer more than the racer you think the movie should have focused on, ultimately rendering the film a star vehicle rather than the character study in obsession you wish it were.

In the end, A Teacher is more of captivating mood piece than a character study.

Attempting to infuse the torture with off - kilter humor that frequently misses its mark, the film ultimately comes off as a pseudo-intellectual torture - flick rather than a character study with a solid narrative.

Not exact matches

More than that, the Bible is a character study of God.

It is studied and examined as a stratagem rather than as a hallmark of character.

(One partial exception to the commission's study results may be the popular program «Golden Girls,» in which the major characters are all women — who are generally portrayed with less egregious exaggeration than some other shows» characters.)

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

In the study of theology proper the whole - church orientation of the schools may be less evident, yet differences are less of a denominational or national than of a party character.

More a beautiful character study than a plot - driven novel, Shine On is worth reading simply for hours spent with Colwin's exquisite descriptions of the physical and emotional world.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

Video games that pit players against human - looking characters may be more likely to provoke violent thoughts and words than games where monstrous creatures are the enemy, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Wake Forest University.

However, a new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business titled «Less Evil Than You: Bounded Self - Righteousness in Character Inferences, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Extremes,» to be published in the forthcoming Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Nadav Klein ask whether the extensive research on self - righteousness overlooks an important ambiguity: When people say they are more moral than others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinThan You: Bounded Self - Righteousness in Character Inferences, Emotional Reactions, and Behavioral Extremes,» to be published in the forthcoming Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Nicholas Epley and Nadav Klein ask whether the extensive research on self - righteousness overlooks an important ambiguity: When people say they are more moral than others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinthan others, do they mean they are more like a saint than others or lesslike a sinthan others or lesslike a sinner?

Called the anterior insula, this structure — which fires up in response to the face of an unsavory character — is less active in older people, possibly making them less cagey than younger folks, a new study finds.

A recent study determined that the most effective online dating messages were fewer than 100 characters.

What's the Deal: More character study than action movie, this adaptation of Martin Booth's 1990 novel «A Very Private Gentleman» is instead concerned with the inner workings of its amoral antihero, whom we witness do very bad things at film's start that haunt him until the very end.

The film is limiting potential enough by conceptually simply studying on Oscar Wilde's sexual revelations and their subsequent consequences, rather than the whole of his brilliant life and tragic downfall, but when it comes to the execution, not enough studying is done in this often inspired, and just as often undercooked character drama which at least finds superficiality in its resonance.

An impeccably written character study from Israel that is at times exhilarating, angry, passionate, funny, provocative, and is never less than absolutely absorbing.

The film is a moving and elusive blend of naturalism and melodrama, less a character study than an analysis of a community.

A moving and elusive blend of naturalism and melodrama, less a character study than an analysis of a community.

With his hard - bitten squint and studied air of scowling detachment, Bale seems to be channeling Clint Eastwood at his most enigmatic and reserved; like Eastwood and his characters, Bale allows both the camera and his fellow characters to come to him, rather than proving his bona fides through more obvious and eager means.

What they do, almost better than anyone else in Indiewood, are character studies steeped in regionalism and neo-neorealism: the mix of Brooklyn hipsters and inner city youth in Half Nelson, the corn - belt small town playing host to a Dominican minor - league baseball player in Sugar.

Click for showtimes and tickets — KU Prince Avalanche David Gordon Green's intimate indie about two guys (Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch) repairing roads in the Texas backwoods is more than just a return to poetic - ruralist form; the Pineapple Express filmmaker has finally found the perfect middle ground between his earlier introspective character studies and his recent stoner comedies.

I see it more as a social study, a kind of fictional ethnographic profile of the corporate culture, with characters more suggested than fully fleshed out.

One of the curious aspects of the film is that even though it's more of a character study than an outright comedy, that character is a legendary comic who's not really that funny.

That Jackie feels deeply personal and lacks that perfunctory sheen of «historical importance» — that it is a character study rather than a history lesson — speaks to Larraín's humanist approach to the material.

The pacing is good, but the film also comes with many obvious markers of rough editing and recuts, which makes the middle section feel muddled and disjointed; it's hard to see certain scenes as sequential and purposed, rather than stitched together from parts of what was seemingly a deeper (and longer) character study.

As a romantic comedy, it obeys none of the traditional edicts of the genre; as a character study, it brings delirious depth to its subject; and as an Adam Sandler movie, it shows more intelligence and snap than we could have ever imagined.

These are shabby aims when an in - depth character study of Frida has much more than that to be mined.

Given the film - maker's background as a purveyor of spiky, larger - than - life character studies, it's hard to believe Anderson won't add some much - needed depth and menace to the tale of the mischievous self - animated puppet.

But I was so inspired to study how it is that when I'm looking at the character models, I'm still able to feel like I'm in their shoes so much more than when I am the character [in a first - person game].

More character study than thriller (the title means «revenge»), this slow - burning Austrian film effectively holds our interest with its unpredictable plot, even though it's not easy to care where it's going.Tamara (Potapenko) is a Ukrainian...

There Will Be Blood confidently struck out for new territory and transformed itself into something truly unique, becoming much more of an unflinching character study than a righteous polemic.

Excessive length can be fine: In the case of «Toni Erdmann,» I thought it gave the film's character studies room to breathe, and the film felt far shorter than its running time.

This was more of a characters study and intimate portrait than a caricature that she often played.

Rather than concentrating on what the characters have to say, the camera nonchalantly follows its subjects around and studies the expressions on their faces.

The film comes off more as a character study of a woman thrown into emotional chaos over personal loss than riveting thriller.

Romero's understated film is more of a character study than any of his other works, and Amplas is up to the task.

It's a solid performance, and that helps to make American Made more a study of this character than an events - based biography.

Director Jason Reitman so seamlessly infuses these almost satirical moments into the context of the character study surrounding them they are more another facet of Ryan than a jab at some type he represents.

As envisioned by Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, The End of the Affair), the con game is mixed with a rather somber drama, making this more of a character study than an ensemble pastiche of humorous twists.

I don't think this was ever meant to be anything other than a lighthearted comedic character study of a sweetly neurotic rising t.v. producer.

American indie debuts don't come much more accomplished than Krisha, in which writer - director Trey Edward Shults casts a bunch of family members (including his aunt, Krisha Fairchild, who's like a rawer Gena Rowlands) in a disquieting character study about an absentee mother coming home for a supremely awkward Thanksgiving.

The movie is more of a character study rather than suspenseful thriller.

Tyrannosaur is a grim tell - it - how - it - is kind film that is more of a character study than plot based.

Corbijn is best known for Depeche Mode and U2 videos as well as directing The American and Control, but Gavin reckons he's more than capable of handling the complex plot and character study of «A Most Wanted Man».

What really stands out about «Maggie» is its cast, as the ex-governor continues his return to acting with something different for him: a low - budget horror drama that's more of a character study than an action picture.

Effortlessly shifting between genres (a musical with Jersey Boys earlier this year, now a war movie) and producing work at a pace more prolific than filmmakers half his age, American Sniper is his latest entry in a series of character studies that examine the shifting psychosis of America and its War On Terror.

The film has more in common with The Fighter than either of the movies mentioned in the first paragraph, but it's even more character study than boxing movie.

I'd almost rather this have been a shallow character study than what it wound up becoming.