Sentences with phrase «wrenching drama»

Or poignant and heart - wrenching drama?

Maybe its heart - wrenching drama.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» is a powder keg of rage and raw emotion that deftly dances on the line between dark comedy and wrenching drama.

Whether or not it is designed as an allegory of modern Russia, no film in recent memory has examined the growing emptiness of human relationships with such expressive force as Andrey Zvyagintsev's («Leviathan») Loveless, a heart wrenching drama about a couple on the brink of divorce whose emotional neglect of their son leads to devastating...

An incredibly intimate and authentic story about a broken man forced to confront his demons, «Manchester by the Sea» is the most devastating, heart - wrenching drama of 2016.

With War, as with the previous two, it found a perfect balance between blockbuster action and heart wrenching drama.

Angelina Jolie's wrenching drama, «First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers,» is her most accomplished directing to date and was well received at both festivals.

Manchester by the Sea: This wrenching drama runs well over two hours and yet remains riveting throughout, with the movie's engrossing atmosphere perpetuated by a career - best performance by Casey Affleck.

Yan England's debut feature is an emotionally wrenching drama about the impact of bullying in high school.

Compared to something like A Fantastic Woman, Lelio's intimate, wrenching drama about a trans woman in Chile that is also screening at this festival, Disobedience is a distant chamber piece, a story about hidden passions without much of its own.

Despite the solid acting and wrenching drama, this over-slick film never connects emotionally.

The Grand Prix prize went to the much talked - about «120 BPM (Beats Per Minute)», director Robin Campillo's heart - wrenching drama about the 1990s war on AIDS and the French gay rights movement.

Meanwhile, Sam Mendes switches gears from the heart - wrenching drama of «Revolutionary Road» to the lighter fare of «Away We Go,» a comedy starring «The Office» «s John Krasinski and «Saturday Night Live» alumn Maya Rudolph.

Here's a little blurb on Animal Kingdom from the Sundance film guide: «Wielding a formidable cinematic lexicon, writer / director David Michôd shows complete command of every frame as he shifts between simmering intensity and gut - wrenching drama.

This may not be the cheeriest movie of the season, but it's so skilfully written, directed and acted that it's impossible not to be pulled into its powerfully wrenching drama.

It's a heart - wrenching drama, more than about a mother dying of cancer, or a man coming to terms with his family and his sexuality.

She's known for all this comedy on Community, and yet I didn't know her from Community first, I knew her from a movie called Gardens of the Night, which is one of the most wrenching dramas, and she's excellent.

Not exact matches

Kenyon's life story is fascinating and wrenching, the stuff of both highbrow and middlebrow drama, She was a college student who married her much older professor, retreated with him from university life to a family farmhouse in New Hampshire, rediscovered her faith (without turning into a wild - eyed zealot), bravely battled depression, came into her own as a poet and loyally nursed her husband through two difficult bouts with cancer.

You're neck deep in some sort of drama over a work obstacle, a dysfunctional member of your community, or some other wrench in your organization.

Part sci - fi, part medical thriller, part romantic drama, «I Origins» has a pleasing way of working expansive ideas into a suspenseful, twisting story line, even if it occasionally has to wrench the story around tight turns.

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

I spent much of the movie thinking about her Oscar - nominated turn as an intrepid Boston Globe reporter in «Spotlight» and her wrenching performance as an Orthodox Jewish woman in the upcoming drama «Disobedience,» and wondering why the studios can't give this brilliant actress something comparably rewarding to do.

45 minutes of outrageous situation comedy with hilarious consequences, 45 minutes of gut wrenching and heart felt emotional drama, 45 minutes of impeccable acting from its two leads, who's on - screen chemistry (excuse the pun) has garnered them with a total of 4 Emmy's, and 45 minutes (im about to come back full circle here) of impossible to predict story lines that make the twists and turns in shows like Lost and Fringe genuinely feel like amateur hour.

A gripping drama, Detachment offers a gut - wrenching look at the school system, as told by the unsung heroes — the teachers.

A wrenching, heartfelt drama with an unfussy social commentary that again seeks a new definition of womanhood.

All or Nothing has some appealing performances, several scenes of absolutely shattering domestic drama and an uncanny aura of gut - wrenching, documentarylike authenticity.

The Globes might not throw a wrench into the Best Actress race, but if Jessica Chastain wins in Drama or if Margot Robbie wins in Comedy, well, things are going to shift really quickly.

The wrenching, racially - charged drama received 10 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for Hutton.

Meanwhile, this summer Mikkelsen will lead the wrenching Danish drama «The Hunt,» (we gave it an A --RRB- which comes from Thomas Vinterberg, director of Cannes Jury Prize - winner «Festen.»

But for all its gut - wrenching horror, Son Of Saul is the rare Holocaust drama to locate actual drama, and not just despair, in the living hell of a concentration camp.

Unfortunately, Another Earth operates under the guise of a science - fiction film with the heart - wrenching plot of a drama.

It marks «a mature and heart - wrenching return to his socially - conscious dramas,» according to Variety reviewer Maggie Lee.

Throughout writer - director Farhadi's wrenching, relentlessly intelligent drama, characters shield their feelings with unspoken motives and actions.

The bold concept behind Cate Shortland's wrenching Nazi downfall drama is sold short by its overblown style.

In this modern - day drama, Oscar ® - winner Melissa Leo beautifully conveys the heart - wrenching struggle that comes with loving an addict.

It's an apt illustration of the movie's analytic power: Throughout writer - director Farhadi's wrenching, relentlessly intelligent drama, characters shield their feelings with unspoken motives and actions.

BPM, which draws on filmmaker Robin Campillo's own years as an activist, is a sprawling drama centered by the emotionally wrenching performance of newcomer Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, playing an ACT UP organizer in Paris.

Room: A stellar adaptation of a stellar book, Room is undoubtedly the most wrenching and hard - to - watch drama to see release in 2014.

Fine acting, stunning photography, and music by Alexandre Desplat support the heart - wrenching emotion at the heart of this skillfully - told medical drama about organ donation.

This actor is on fire right now after his heart - wrenching turn in the weepy ABC drama This Is Us and for playing prosecutor Christopher Darden in The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

His coming - of - age drama «The Scouting Book For Boys» is something of a Playlist favorite; wrenching and dark and beautifully made, it sadly never got a U.S. release, despite being one of the better recent British films, but it's led to a lot more movie work.

Other recipients include Jean - Paul Rappeneau for his project Belles familles; Louis Garrel, whose Les Deux amis will team the writer - director with Vincent Macaigne; and Christophe Honoré... Michael Caine will star in Paolo Sorrentino's In the Future, a drama about «friendship between two old people»... Abdellatif Kechiche is contemplating another helping of wrenching romantic anguish with a movie version of Héloïse et Abélard... Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are currently shooting an adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's novel Ten Thousand Saints, with Ethan Hawke and Hailee Steinfeld, about a young man (played by Hugo star Asa Butterfield) who moves in with his estranged father in Manhattan in 1987 at the height of the East Village punk scene...

His fourth feature Snow Angels should at least bring everyone back to agreement; it's not his best, but it's an accomplished, wrenching, satisfying drama of the highest order.

Hiko Mitsuzuka takes on the haunting and heart - wrenching coming - of - age drama «Moonlight» from writer - director Barry Jenkins.

The Box, an infamous and intense slab located 500 yards across the channel of the main site, was added in 2014 and has injected high drama, gut - wrenching wipeouts and perfect scores to the equation.

For those of you who expect a Hollywood style gut wrenching sweat - inducing drama to unfold every time a legal action is started, I'm sorry to disappoint you but you're better off sticking to your television fantasies.