Sentences with phrase «unlikable at»

Even if her actions make her unlikable at times, it's impossible not to sympathize with her.

He's not likable in the novel's first pages, when he's a scholarship student at a posh boys» school in Australia, and he remains unlikable at the end, when he's a 30 - something who doesn't know what to do with his life.

The film does not hold back even in making its main subject unlikable at times, showing the toll this kind of traumatic injury can take on not just the victim but the people who love him.

Not exact matches

While Brown may not appear popular in opinion polls, we only need look at opinion polls in France to see that a leader (Sarkozy) can be unlikable but still perceived as strong and effective.

Andrew Matthews» script is kind of limp, but with decent bits, at least in humor, as well as intriguing elements in the mostly undercooked, maybe even somewhat unlikable characterization, whose distancing attributes are challenged by, at the very least, decent performances.

There's so little to say in this film, and if there was a little more heart here, then the final product would have stood as genuinely decent, but as things stand, this effort is not only forgettable, but mean -, if at all spirited, with unlikable characters behind a meandering narrative that mediocrity goes secured.

While it doesn't do anything to make «Abby» (Darby Stanchfield) any less unlikable, it at least makes the rest of the cast's sub-plots more entertaining.

Yes, do note that I said that the underdevelopment makes it «hard [u] er [/ u]» to get invested in the characters, because as if it's not bad enough that the characters are so undercooked and, well, kind of bland, they're unlikable, or at least the lead is, for although Sam Eidman's portrayal of the Scott Weidemeyer character is engaging convincing, the character himself is just too much of a manchild - concerned with the superficial and his own self - esteem over the concerns of others and growing up - for you to feel for him all that much.

It has an amoral vixen at the heart of its story, and the rest of the characters are perhaps even more unlikable.

Where I think the film makers made a mistake here is that he is instantly unlikable, showing little emotion at his brothers funeral and not helped by the glazed over half smirk Josh Wiggins employs throughout half of this film.

He's not afraid to subvert mainstream tastes, to test the boundaries of movie stars» appeal, to serve up realistically unlikable characters, or to disappoint at the box office again and again.

As dinosaur fans, we've been looking forward to Disney and Pixar's «The Good Dinosaur,» and while it had plenty of feel - good moments, the movie itself was too familiar and at its center was a disappointingly unlikable character: Arlo.

Edgerton never makes the character come off as too unlikable but at the same time, you never stop asking the question, «what the heck is with that guy?»

The cons the guys play aren't particularly believable, and the characters at first come off very unlikable in general.

At first, Cusack over-does the tortured genius angle and actually makes the Poe «character» pretty unlikable (especially compared to a similar schtick from Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes); however, as the film's murder plot takes hold, the actor backs - off from showcasing his practiced version of Poe and locks into a less ambitious, but more likable, approach — simply reacting to the various in - moment happenings.

It's not until Jeff and Anne make a pact to change their public personas in an effort to be «cool» and more attractive to the opposite sex that the film takes kind of a nasty — well at least unlikable — turn.

In Rock the Kasbah he is at his most unlikable since «Kingpin,» but at least that picture was hilarious and Murray's delightful bastard, Ernie McCrakin, fits right in with the rest of the silliness.

Of course, like practically all comedies centering on a boorish and unlikable individual, this wraps up with a few insincere moments of character maturity and empathy, but here such bits are no harder to take than the desperate gags flailing and falling flat at a rapid clip.

Although the film presents both as victims, both men appear sympathetic and unlikable in equal measures, allowing audiences to decide their own beliefs on the topic at hand and creating thrilling moments of terrific drama.

The pair's first collaboration, 2012's «Frances Ha,» was a painfully obtuse look at self - entitled millennials living in New York City, and although «Mistress America» isn't as bad, it covers a lot of the same ground while forcing yet another group of mostly unlikable characters down the audience's throat.

For one brief moment, that return is visible but all potential is obliterated almost instantly by James Franco at his most extremely unlikable as Cranston's future foul - mouthed son - in - law.

Laird's inability to restrain himself from his excessive use of profanity and sharing inappropriate details that might be considered «faux pas» at best makes him extremely unlikable.

MacMurray, in a daring departure from the family - friendly image he was beginning to cultivate at the Disney studio and in then - upcoming «My Three Sons», provides an interesting character study with his portrayal of a rather unlikable fellow whose sense of decency is considerably more deplorable than that of Walter Neff in Indemnity.

But she's been at her best when she's had the opportunity to play complicated, flawed and sometimes unlikable women, as she has as the star of the indie drama «Trucker» and in her recent turn as Woody Harrelson's frustrated wife on HBO's «True Detective.»

With two incredibly unlikable lead characters (the worse being Darry, thanks to Long's feature - length impersonation of Freddie Prinze Jr.'s mouth - agape stare), one is left to hope for at least some decent scares, but outside of the opening sequence, there aren't any.

Aunt Brenda was presented sympathetically at first, but as the book progressed, she became more and more unlikable.

They compare it to yet another title, «Quick - witted and fast - paced, this debut mystery should be a hit with Gone Girl fans,» as does the Associated Press reviewer, «The unlikable protagonist with a biting personality and outrageous actions, but who is fascinating at the same time, has never been more popular.

COLBERT: «Unlikable» female characters are at the top of my list when choosing books, and two of my recent favorites are Nina, from Elana K. Arnold's What Girls Are Made Of (2017), and Julia, from Erika L. Sánchez's I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (2017).

- Publishers Weekly»... [T] hough by novel's end, the characters prove unlikable and their motives murky, Silver definitely delivers a thought - provoking examination of the criminal - justice system, providing a clear - eyed view of the artificial theatrics that dominate criminal trials and a heartfelt look at both grief and remorse.

But then the writers make a few more terrible jokes, including one scene where Bryce checks out Arcadia's lingerie in her apartment, that start to drag poor Bryce back into the realms of being unlikable, and that leaves me at a bit of an impasse: I could argue that Bryce is perhaps an interesting study on human nature, questioning what someone would actually become after 500 - years of watching friends and family die around them without being able to die themselves, always having to live on the outer fringes of society.

This is a concept that only works if the villain is truly irredeemable, and Ground Zeroes does an excellent job at making Skull Face unlikable without making him a bad character.

The first time the cases were tried, defense counsel were highly effective at showing the father as an unlikable, arrogant, difficult, powerful, and abusive man whom the brothers feared.