Sentences with phrase «than a functioning plot»

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If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

Martin Freeman makes a welcome appearance in the third tale, as a man whose house is invaded by a poltergeist at the same time that his wife is at the hospital giving birth (minus his presence or support), but he ultimately functions more as a hoary plot device than as a terrified witness to vengeful spirits.

Although the story mode in Injustice 2 functions as little more than a gauntlet of brawls between set characters, the unifying plot is remarkably well - written and serves each character that appears.

If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

Earlier than you make stronger your tool on Android O 7.1.2, you will need to know one of the indispensable crucial devoted functions that Google's most contemporary running plot has to provide.