It's at once restless and meditative; and, true to the entire work, engrossingly ambiguous.
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Engrossingly voyeuristic, the loungers made the onlookers participate in the absurdity, as half their figure disappears into the player.
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If VR continues to grow, that prospect may at some point become old hat, but right now it's engrossingly unique.
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"Gloria" is a tribute to Fargo's Gloria Bugle, and it's one of the most engrossingly plaintive rock songs of this year so far.
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It came engrossingly to life in the second act with up-to-date metamorphosing projections for the opera's (often tedious) trials by fire and water.
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New York-based experimentalist, Lesley Flanigan, has shared an engrossingly understated video capturing a 20-minute live performance of the title track of her new album, Hedera.
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The movie is ultimately less about the players or even the engrossingly shot games than the idea of basketball as a tradition, one that imbues lives with meaning and bonds a community.
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" Glacial Industries' last release was the engrossingly cinematic Becoming N(one) EP by v1984, featuring the standout track "Crying Beneath The Surface Of The Ocean As The Sunset's Rays Flicker Into The Indefinite Horizon.
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Between their shifts, each was eager to meet the man who built an engrossingly realistic four-foot-high model of a bombed-out apartment building, one seemingly airlifted from the civil war engulfing Damascus, Syria.
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Ms. Mumford's voice has filled the Metropolitan Opera House with ease and penetrated through the New York Philharmonic playing Wagner, yet she was engrossingly intimate in Bolcom: sometimes even eschewing vibrato and delivering quiet, seductive Sprechstimme.
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But as writer Linda Kay Klein engrossingly details in her recently released book, Pure: Inside the Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, the psychological effects don't stop there; they can follow women into their adult lives, leading to mental and physical side effects similar to symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Whether it's with cars, motorcycles, airplanes, speedboats, motorcycles, or monster trucks, The Crew 2018 is an endless stream of competitive events against AI that, while fun for a while, grows a bit tiresome as it becomes clear that this is the only thing there is to do aside from roam around aimlessly and do ill-advised things like this: In many other racing games, this would be perfectly fine, because the racing is exciting and fun enough on its own – whether because it's thrilling and over the top (like Burnout or Need for Speed) or engrossingly realistic (like Dirt or Forza).
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Critical reception for the first film was mostly positive. The Hollywood Reporter praised Yasser Arafat as being "[an] engrossingly edited, celebratory view of PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s personal sacrifices during his political career".
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Fowler also enjoyed the frightening portrayal of the fourth floor, which he said helps establish Pawnee as "a place where both the engrossingly real and the entertainingly surreal can co-exist". GQ writer Dan Fierman praised the episode, particularly Ron's character and the singing telegram "divorce horse".
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The New York Times. C10. Variety wrote that it "comes very close to being quite a good film. For its first two-thirds an engrossingly tense suspenser about teen vigilantes run amok, pic becomes distressingly conventional in its final act, its unusual qualities virtually dissolving before one's eyes.""Film Reviews: Dangerously Close". Variety.
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Sam Moskowitz saw the influence of Mark Twain in the story. Calling de Camp "the funniest writer in science fiction," he noted that "[t]hough the writing was choppy in spots, the details of an utterly unique social set-up, complete with its own slang, was engrossingly worked out and chuckle-provoking."Moskowitz, Sam. Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction (New York : Ballantine Books, 1967), p. 160.
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"No-One Understands" is a "satirical lament" according to Johnny Cigarettes of NME, which features "overly mixed guitars" which make the song "maddeningly and engrossingly repetitive", whilst "Voodoo Roller" takes inspiration from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects. "Drop Dead" is a funk rock track sung from the point of view of a celebrity stalker, whilst "Dark Clouds" is an ironic "holiday siesta" featuring a trumpet solo." "Major Pager" concerns then-Prime Minister John Major "selling E's to the Russians", a lyric that made musical journalist Colin Larkin surprised that the band didn't end up receiving litigation." "Charlie M." is a "Charles Manson fantasy" which features "Mickey Mouse screwing Minnie".
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The emotional center of the book, Arvin writes, is the relation between Taji and Yillah, the "I" and the mysterious blonde who disappears as suddenly as she appeared. Taji begins a quest for her throughout the islands without finding her. Though Arvin finds the allegory of Yillah "too tenuous and too pretty to be anything but an artistic miscarriage" in the poetic sense, he also finds it "extremely revealing" in connection with the whole Melville canon. Yillah, associated with the lily in the language of flowers, is "an embodiment of the pure, innocent, essentially sexless happiness", and Hautia, "symbolized by the dahlia", embodies "the sensual, the carnal, the engrossingly sexual".
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Levillain’s work focuses primarily on the history of Anglo-Franco-Dutch relations under the late Stuarts, with special interest in the figure of Stadholder-King William III (1650-1702). His first book, Vaincre Louis XIV (2010), about the emergence of the Anglo-Dutch alliance against Louis XIV, was awarded the Prix Guizot by the French Academy (2011). His second book, Un glaive pour un royaume (2014), tells the story of militia debates in Stuart England, explaining that the distinction between standing armies and militias has been exaggerated since the seventeenth century for reasons of political convenience. It was praised as a “clear- headed and engrossingly heretical” contribution to historians' knowledge of standing army debates.
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The better numbers (like the title track) incorporate Celtic rock with Hungarian, Middle Eastern and other interesting worldbeat influences." Parisien found the album's integration with the novel unsuccessful, in that the novel's 17 chapters were presented as "scrollable text only, which also intersperse some 80 song lyric excerpts that you can play from hot buttons. Annoyingly, you must flip back to a main menu index to move from one chapter to the next." Parisien concluded, "Despite Brust's engrossingly poetic, impressionist story inspired by Hungarian folk tales and revolving around three Gypsy brothers, the project does not overcome the primary limitation of bringing literature to the computer screen, that being that the computer offers an inhospitable environment for viewing literature-length text.
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Yet it's constantly, engrossingly active, spinning and sparking and exploding in cycles like a Fourth of July Catherine wheel." Eric Kohn of Indiewire was enthusiastic, writing that American Honey "proves Andrea Arnold is one of the best working filmmakers and finds a breakout star in Sasha Lane," and that "It's the closest thing to a magnum opus in Arnold's blossoming career." David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "A road movie without a map that nonetheless arrives at a worthwhile destination," and wrote, "The film works best as a poignant character study, observing Star as she settles into her independence and figures out who she wants to be, framed by a vast physical landscape that stretches socioeconomically from privileged wealth to squalid poverty.
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In May 1964 Walter Reade-Sterling released a 126-minute version of the film; according to Bosley Crowther, that version is a "simple social drama [that] turns out to be engrossingly human, compassionate and humorous....Marcello Mastroianni ... plays the title role with a delightful blend of ardor, ingenuousness and whimsicality. He excels as the shaggy-haired, near-sighted, idealistic intellectual who leads a handful of downtrodden workers ... in a revolt. But the whole thing is done with such veracity and the other roles are so strongly played or, at least, so graphically represented--that one feels right in the middle of one of those classic demonstrations in which the labor movement was born." In 1964 the National Board of Review placed the film on its "Year's Five Best Foreign Films".
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Critic Philip French of The Observer stated: > "The calculated sadism of the film would be offensive were it not for the > neutralising laughter aroused by the ludicrousness of the whole exercise. If > one didn't know the actual provenance of the film, one would guess that it > was a private movie made by a group of rich European Western fans at a dude > ranch... A Fistful of Dollars looks awful, has a flat dead soundtrack, and > is totally devoid of human feeling." Bosley Crowther of The New York Times treated the film not as pastiche, but as camp-parody, stating that nearly every Western cliche could be found in this "egregiously synthetic but engrossingly morbid, violent film". He went on to patronize Eastwood's performance, stating: "He is simply another fabrication of a personality, half cowboy and half gangster, going through the ritualistic postures and exercises of each... He is a morbid, amusing, campy fraud".
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" Varietys Justin Chang called the film "a superbly controlled and engrossingly detailed account of the Boston Globes Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the widespread pedophilia scandals and subsequent cover-ups within the Catholic Church." Joe Morgenstern from Wall Street Journal wrote in his review " To turn a spotlight fittingly on “Spotlight,” it's the year's best movie so far, and a rarity among countless dramatizations that claim to be based on actual events. " Mark Kermode from Guardian gave 4 out of 5 stars for this movie and praise the performance of Mark Ruffalo saying, " As for Mark Ruffalo, he's the closest thing this ensemble cast has to a star turn, a long- suppressed outburst of emotion providing one of the film's few grandstanding showstoppers. " Helen O'Hara from Empire gave the movie 4 out of 5 stars and called the movie " A grown-up film about serious people that mercifully escapes any awards-grabbing platitudes, this is more thrilling than most action movies.
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