Sentences with phrase «visual flourish»

Meanwhile, that 3D Glass back is more than just a visual flourish - it ensures that the phone sits nicely in the curve of your hand.

As a purely visual flourish, it works well.

Enter then Road to Gehenna, an expansion pack for The Talos Principle which proves that last year's game was no fluke, Road to Gehenna once more brings those same philosophical musings and brutally clever puzzles to the forefront, doing so with the levels of flair and visual flourish that were so evident in its parent title.

Rolling out alongside the excellent Rochard and the highly - anticipated PAYDAY: The Heist, Sideway: New York brings an impressive visual flourish to 2D platformers.

Enter then Road to Gehenna, an expansion pack for The Talos Principle which proves that last year's game was no fluke, Road to Gehenna once more brings those same philosophical musings and brutally clever puzzles to the forefront and does so with the levels of flair and visual flourish that were so evident in its parent title.

Light Slate Gray stitching provides a visual flourish to the chairs, instrument panels, center console lid, and door panels.

And while Little Accidents is no great shakes formally — its sole visual flourish is Colangelo's penchant for shooting emotionally charged scenes from a distance, which is likely motivated by a desire to avoid histrionics — it does create a clear picture of a community in which even the relatively affluent, like Bill and Diane, are essentially just middle - class.

The film has enough visual flourish to appreciate how great it looks here.

There's a significant visual flourish at the epilogue I'm not sure I buy.

Special effects are used sparingly and tastefully, with the Holms» replacement for their donkey, a load - carrying robot with four long metal legs, being the most pervading visual flourish.

There is an intriguing visual flourish at the start of Sparrow.

That's not to say that Tarantino eschews any visual flourish or frenzy, he just hems it in, packing perceptible cues and visible info in an interior space that heightens the girdled feel and the instilled panic of claustrophobia and cabin fever.

Even for Haneke this is astringent stuff, light on visual flourish or narrative surprise, but driving it all are magnificent performances that cut right to the quick.

The dramatic planes of his face can distract when playing everyday cynics, but here they add a delicious and amusing visual flourish.

... full of flashy visual flourishes % u2026 in fact, too full.

Fortunately, Spielberg picks up the pace as the vote nears, though there are relatively few of his trademark visual flourishes (not entirely a bad thing after the overwhelming artifice of «The War Horse»).

It's rarely dull and confidently guided by the cast, but it offers little in the way of overall impact, despite creative visual flourishes and a screenplay rooted in the devastating game of personal reflection.

The hallmarks of a Hawley show are wonderfully offbeat yet endlessly intriguing characters, boldly innovative visual flourishes, a somewhat antic sense of humor, marvelously textured universes, compelling performances and whip - smart writing.

There's an obsession with quirky transitions and visual flourishes (which comes to a head in an over-bearing closing credits sequence) that Stone can't seem to relinquish.

Amid all this materialistic excess, Fassbinder directs with a matter - of - fact detachment, mostly forgoing the visual flourishes of his more outwardly stylish earlier films.

Some stylish visual flourishes elevate an otherwise muddled murder mystery in this grisly and evocative period piece that takes place in Victorian - era London.

The blasé and flippant depiction of the violence and sexual violence used against the women is an almost titillating detail used to assist the faux gothic visual flourishes.

Mills adds just a few visual flourishes, letting a couple of scenes fade out into smudged rainbow light, like a Polaroid left in the rain.

The visual flourishes are not only unnecessary, but nonsensical — who wants a gritty drama to look pretty?

Much like the original Black and White, these games also have a lot of nice visual flourishes with the camera, panning around as you cross bridges or changing its angle dynamically.

Adding to the crazy shenanigans are randomly triggered buff attacks called Ad - Libs and finishing moves called Special Performances, both of which come with plenty of visual flourishes.

The moments of greatness — little visual flourishes, or in the relationships between the three central characters — are wonderful.

His auteur status has always felt like it was more a result of his technical and visual flourishes than any embedded (non-twist) fixations in his work.

If I Am Love and A Bigger Splash rely on dynamic visual flourishes, Call Me by Your Name is a supreme distillation of the intense feelings desire generates, stripped of all artifice.

There's some admirable visual flourishes beyond the texture, too.

The elegance and pervasiveness of such visual flourishes gloriously evoke Cold War tensions.

Despite a handful of memorable visual flourishes and some decent performances, it fails to determine whose story it's interested in unfolding.

«Submarine» I liked with reservations — it's a sweet - natured teen romance with a delicate sense of heartbreak and some striking visual flourishes, plus terrific performances by the young leads and Sally Hawkins, but it dawdles in the middle stretch, wants for big laughs, and wears its Wes Anderson - isms a little too plainly on its sleeve.

The movie does have some pretty impressive production design considering its presumably small budget, so it's a shame to see all that hard work wasted on a director more interested in unnecessary visual flourishes (like a POV shot from a water bucket) than focusing on important things like character and story.

But an intense focus on extra sensory visual flourishes meant to channel all the right vibes tends to distract from more important necessary developments, mainly the creation of empathetic characters.

It may not have the rich visual flourishes that a David Fincher or a Danny Boyle might have brought to the table, but Sorkin, in a solid directing debut, knows instinctively how to shuffle images, dialogue and music together for maximum narrative drive.

Both movies also played at Sundance, with The A.V. Club's A.A. Dowd giving a mutedly positive review to Experimenter, praising Almereyda's visual flourishes while criticizing the film's sometimes - rote tone.

Boyle thrills his audiences with visual flourishes that make even his lesser films (that DiCaprio flick, for example) highly entertaining.

When the Hughes brothers do sequences with visual flourishes, well... it doesn't exactly work.

On the other hand, even though the series can seem uneven, most everybody else will be able to find something to satisfy them in Electric Dreams as it winds its way through varied storytelling styles, littered with intriguing actors and exploding with creative (and expensive - looking) visual flourishes.

The film takes a brief and mildly creepy detour into rom - com's tepid waters, and here at least a few surreal splashes and visual flourishes courtesy of cinematographer James Liston's keen lensing, distract us for a little while.

Zhao Liang's new documentary offers an arresting exploration of labour, through wordless portraiture and surreal visual flourishes.

Steiger's ridiculously over-the-top performance doesn't help matters, nor does Smight's relentless use of circa - 1960's visual flourishes (to call the film dated is an understatement of epic proportions).

Veteran direct - to - DVD action director Isaac Florentine attempts to energize the proceedings with exotic visual flourishes, but his efforts are defeated by the endlessly talky, convoluted script which aspires to psychological depth.

He also seems a little too in love with bullet - time and other visual flourishes.

Unlike anything you've seen in recent memory, this rare bird (written by Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan) is certainly inimitable, but a grounding touchstone might be the energy and spirit of Richard Ayoade's «Submarine,» but minus the stylistic visual flourishes.

What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.

They deploy slow motion, fast motion, freeze - frames and other visual flourishes not to highlight pivotal narrative moments, but to italicize feelings — some sorrowful or profound, others fleeting, playful, sensual.

-LSB-...] Danny Boyle employs his usual visual flourishes that made his original film so appealing but there's a maturity to this sequel that makes it a fitting and nostalgic companion piece.

Danny Boyle employs his usual visual flourishes but he's more restrained and that's what the material demands.