Some of my favorite films, if you actually analyze what happens narratively, very little happens narratively. Okay.
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I'm wondering how we can tell truths in ways that make them more narratively viral, more narratively catchy.
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All we've done is represent kids meta-narratively, and social media democratizes that, so that kids themselves can represent themselves meta-narratively.
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How do you capture that not only narratively but visually?
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Her innocence is believable, but her passivity is narratively problematic.
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Very narratively driven, this video is full of style and humor.
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Narratively speaking, this is easily her most sophisticated and ambitious novel.
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They're not part of the scene, narratively; they're just set-dressing.
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Perhaps Magna's prison stint will come back in a narratively interesting way.
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But that doesn't change the fact that, narratively, this needs to happen.
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Narratively it's a mess, the stakes don't work & the villain isn't great.
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While they can be narratively interesting, the missions are almost universally boring.
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What's particularly interesting about these games is how they are deployed narratively.
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Narratively, that's Becky inside her, a ghost who is usurping her soul.
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There's no indication that it's narratively connected to Venom in any way.
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He is the narratively irrelevant queen to Simon's well-adjusted gay boy.
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Midweek in this shop, we cook narratively, with ideas rather than ratios.
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The online magazine Narratively has an entire vertical dedicated to Secret Lives.
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The primary between Clinton and Obama, the race itself, so narratively-focused.
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Narratively speaking, this turns into a neat visualization of the city's social order.
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The downside to Hereditary is that it feels cluttered, both thematically and narratively.
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Or are we just skipping it narratively because we already know it happened?
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They're visionary experiments that reject the neat parameters of yore—narratively, thematically, representationally.
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They may not always be narratively-warranted or cogent, but they are explosive.
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It's a game that refuses to engage with itself mechanically, thematically, or narratively.
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These Legions should be the stars of the show, both narratively and mechanically.
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Her reputation for managing technically and narratively complicated hours is borne out here.
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It was more economical, both logistically and narratively, to gather children in groups.
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It makes sense, narratively, for June to have made this drastic and selfish decision.
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And while there are only twelve missions in total, each one is narratively necessary.
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It concludes on a thought-provoking turn that feels both thematically and narratively satisfying.
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In a Shakespearean twist, Silicon Valley's success has narratively ensnared it on two levels.
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Sonically and narratively, the album is relentlessly immersed in Drake (the man, the artist).
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What the writers have tried to do narratively, it's a roller coaster this season.
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Narratively, it explores adult relationships and their complications: infidelity, lust, sexuality, and so on.
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Even though that would be narratively unsatisfying, death is often unsatisfying in real life.
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His death is significant, but neither narratively nor emotionally consequential enough in this context.
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The two-year disintegration of the group's high-pressure friendship is narratively that minute.
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VICE: What were you trying to capture, emotionally and narratively, going into the trip?
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The sense of being narratively cheated and manipulated completely undercuts any scares in a movie.
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They pushed themselves to make both versions of the story as narratively dynamic as possible.
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His work has appeared in the New York Times, TIME, Politico, Narratively, and other publications.
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Yet it's something that Epic has been building toward narratively for more than a year.
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Under that strategy, newer films might share continuity, but not be so slavishly linked narratively.
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For now, we're stuck with a visually arresting but narratively weak second-to-last chapter.
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If there's anyone who's been more narratively jerked around than Daenerys this season, it's Jaime.
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Narratively, it ends up feeling more like a lengthy interlude than a meaningful set piece.
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Not that Bee has no reason to kill, it's just that her reason is narratively irrelevant.
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A top-five film for any movie buff will always be genre defining—technically and narratively.
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And as Lynch withdrew from the show, it became narratively muddled, inconsistent, and sometimes downright silly.
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Narratively, we did everything we could to challenge the allure of getting sucked back into it.
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The opening stretch that introduces Cloud, Barret, and their allies doesn't feel much different, narratively speaking.
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After all, trying to figure out how to survive on Mars is narratively rich and compelling.
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With almost zero spoken story, and The Dark Zone's more narratively stable than the game's campaign.
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But mostly, the film is as visually and narratively off-putting as the increasingly hateful protagonists.
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How did you approach shooting a film that was visually interesting as well as narratively coherent?
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It may be a telling incident, but narratively it provides a bit of a metatextual stumble.
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"Black Panther," the year's biggest domestic grossing movie, features women in galvanizing, narratively crucial supporting roles.
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Nothing in particular, either narratively or structurally, seems to be accomplished by the change of voice.
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It was narratively awkward: an ellipsis of perhaps 30 years during which nothing big would happen.
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At least some of Hopper's worst decisions in season 2 are both narratively necessary and emotionally justified.
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It's a standout, not just because of Bigelow's big name involvement, but technically and narratively as well.
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Both narratively and stylistically, "Cloverfield" and "10 Cloverfield Lane" remain at a significant remove from one another.
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In moments like these, the Coens' directorial prowess is dizzying, at once cerebral, emotional, and narratively propulsive.
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No and no — I've just concluded that Game of Thrones is narratively bankrupt and spiritually burned out.
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Hypothetically, Handmaid's Tale could have allowed this narratively-necessary protest to be a general movement against Gilead.
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They cement American dominance in two industries that Americans have fallen behind in, at least narratively speaking.
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Or you could forgo a recipe entirely, as we generally do on Wednesdays, and cook narratively instead.
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The Mayans have business on both sides of the border, which figures narratively, visually and sometimes politically.
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Although the repeated questions are narratively obtrusive, the men's voices broaden this experience beyond its escapist trappings.
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But that undercut Scott's original intention to leave much about the film ambiguous, both philosophically and narratively.
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These accounts are separate yet also connected, visually and narratively, through spaces, camera movements and turning points.
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In terms of the wider story, Geillis's abrupt return — and even more abrupt departure — is narratively unsatisfying.
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"Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos," then silently read them before meetings begin, Mr. Bezos wrote.
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Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's The Gospel of Eureka takes an incredibly different approach, both formally and narratively.
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The footage of Hannaford's film is breathtaking, but it's also too narratively wispy to stand on its own.
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The series is also narratively connected to perennial favorite Tiger & Bunny, although how isn't entirely clear just yet.
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It's coming off the bad faith of last year's poorly received and narratively unrelated biopic Goodbye Christopher Robin.
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Suffused with a sentimentality that Wilde himself would have deplored, "The Happy Prince" is narratively mushy and meandering.
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It's narratively and creatively maximalist, full of subplots, conspiracies, directorial triple back flips and twist upon baffling twist.
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Kerby Jean-Raymond's political, narratively rich designs for Pyer Moss presaged today's gestures at activism on the runway.
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It's a narratively nimble show that's thematically about routine, emotional fidelity and the possibility, or impossibility, of reinvention.
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Additionally, it didn't fare well with critics who generally found it to be visually pleasing but narratively incomprehensible.
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I decide that the absence of female characters is acceptable or not too bad and maybe narratively justifiable.
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Amid a transition that's stylistically jarring but narratively compelling, Greenfield introduces Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippines's notorious current president.
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What results is a hypertext-heavy, narratively dispersed bricolage that lands somewhere between film essay and leftist manifesto.
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It's probably not as good as Unbreakable or Split, but I think it's well acted and narratively complex.
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Whether you want to deny the queer/romantic reading or not, the 'love' part is important narratively and thematically.
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Paul Bertone We needed to figure out a way to reinforce what Joe was doing narratively in the game.
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It's perhaps the most narratively disheartening series I've ever played, but that doesn't stop it from being wholly captivating.
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His work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Politico, Narratively, and other publications across North America.
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After the Marvel Cinematic Universe became a commercial juggernaut, branching out to TV seemed inevitable, both narratively and synergistically.
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Aside from the canonical evidence, there are also practical reasons for why something like this would be narratively likely.
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It's not narratively led, replete with explicit moments of player choice and determined to prove that decisions have consequences.
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There's nothing very narratively satisfying about almost all of these pieces of content — hence that recurring VR word 'experience'.
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Even the comedy Futurama, with its interplanetary delivery service Planet Express, is narratively centered on a commercial space enterprise.
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It wasn't quite right though, so we started to look at different dance forms that could hold water narratively.
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"Narratively I'd say I'm inspired by Taiwanese, or Asian American filmmakers and novelists," Han Tani told me via email.
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They morphed, becoming in a lot of ways, more "respectable" narratively, compared to their former cousins like Cannibal Holocaust .
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It's narratively compelling, subtle, and broaches some of the most existentially focused subject matter the series has ever attempted.
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And he approves of the movie's particular take on quantum entanglement, which is a stretch scientifically but narratively satisfying.
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And when I opened Eowyn Ivey's first novel, THE SNOW CHILD, I was completely transported, both narratively and geographically.
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For that, what we need is a fast no-recipe recipe, a prompt to cook narratively, as you like.
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In "Atlantics," Diop shows that the act of remaining is as profound, as narratively rich and urgent, as leaving.
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Visually austere and narratively clotted, "Ad Astra" tends to work best in isolated scenes rather than in the aggregate.
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Meetings require a six-page "narratively structured" memo that are read in silence at the start of any gathering.
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Mr. Mills does something similar narratively as he samples the era's music, signposts and shards, all while circling Dorothea.
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The result is a film that is narratively logical and cinematically inert, a funereal march to Katherine's inevitable conclusions.
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Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen Marlon James describes himself as "narratively promiscuous" on this week's podcast.
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His smaller films — in particular, the smartly satirical criminal-bodybuilders film Pain & Gain — tend to be more narratively coherent.
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In addition to the flashbacks and the narratively confusing cross-cuts, the editing also deliberately suspends our temporal location.
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Even in the realm of straight-up horror, cannibalism still offers a more narratively malleable concept for storytellers than zombieism.
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Instead, Clover suggested that slasher films make largely male audiences identify with the surviving "final girl," both narratively and cinematically.
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But narratively, that's about all there is to Café Society, which plays out as a series of largely disconnected vignettes.
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The hour-long album release was broken into 11 separate sections, each with its own theme, both narratively and visually.
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It makes zero sense narratively, and completely breaks the carefully crafted resource strain that had me sweating just hours before.
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His restlessness was impossible to miss in his late Nikkatsu movies, which are so narratively fractured, they verge on abstraction.
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The eight-episode show is a welcome relief — narratively and cinematically — from the convoluted Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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It is both aesthetically daring and narratively riveting, and the film maintains this feeling for the nearly three hours that follow.
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Antonio Campos's "Christine" is a straightforward biopic, narratively speaking, exploring the difficult professional and romantic period leading up to Chubbuck's death.
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Narratively, Runaways stands apart from other Marvel films and series, but it still benefits from the framework established by those projects.
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We will start season 2 in the incredibly fortunate (narratively speaking) position of a new day for the hosts of Westworld.
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But if you think like a showrunner, you're hungry for a conclusion that seems narratively satisfying to millions of casual fans.
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Ms. Bausch essentially invented Tanztheater, or dance theater, in which theatrical and physical elements are combined in unexpected, narratively unrelated ways.
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Given the luxury of having the time to wrap everything up, what are the must-hits, narratively, in this final season?
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Even at 14 years old, he was an intense, narratively-adept rapper, with skill far beyond most rappers a decade older.
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But it's never as narratively surprising or strong as when it's tackling the class strife at the heart this floating city.
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Or, that they ran into so many closed doors, narratively, that there was no other option than to not really bother.
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Say a viewer makes a series of narratively untenable choices that lead to an impasse—a failed ending, it's sometimes called.
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But readers should beware the false sense of security, as structurally, tonally, artistically, and narratively, the comic crumbles into controlled chaos.
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For reasons both cultural and narratively convenient, the two pretend to be a couple in order to appease his overbearing grandmother.
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But narratively, this was the best time to do it, even though some people might think it could have come earlier.
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Narratively, this seven-part documentary is kind of a mess, but everything it depicts is so outrageous that it barely matters.
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Architecture taken from other times that go in line with some sort of an ideological through line narratively is the pitch.
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The series blossomed narratively in Season 2, but it wasn't until Season 4 that the show became its fully actualized self.
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" She adds: "The movie sounds and narratively unwinds like the previous installments, but without the same easy snap or visual allure.
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Over the same period games became far more graphically and narratively complex, more social and, relative to other luxury items, more affordable.
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Remember, Ryn did just drag herself out of the sea roughly 20 minutes ago due to narratively-important, but spoiler-y, reasons.
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Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice: Reeves likes his stuff dark — visually, thematically, narratively — and now he's plunged us headlong into the gloom.
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Not only is it captivating narratively, but its controls are simple, and there's never any "real" threat—you cannot "fail" the game.
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Narratively, too, it diverges from the space sim—which is so often a genre about freeform exploration, pirate hunting, and commodity trading.
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This image sums up the state of mid-tier television drama: Like women in refrigerators, the unexpected car wreck is narratively shallow.
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In the wake of Infinity War, I wondered whether there was any narratively and emotionally satisfying way to walk back its ending.
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The result is a movie that's more effective visually than narratively, its threads woven so loosely that at times they almost disappear.
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Still, this season, the fifth part of the series, works as a standalone piece since it's narratively separate from the previous chapters.
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Sex would have ruined Salinger's girls, narratively speaking, since their purpose is to serve as moral housekeepers, the cleaners of men's souls.
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Narratively, it explains why Cunanan repeatedly said he easily could have been Versace or that Versace took his rightful future away from him.
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There were miles and miles to go, narratively speaking – plenty of runway for the show to absorb each disruption, regroup, and move on.
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Several people have unfavorably compared the game to last year's Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, an equally outlandish but more narratively incisive shooter.
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Only two writers from season 5 were hired back for season 6, hopefully resulting in a more narratively cohesive season than the last.
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Her music videos are all narratively driven, and portray the intensities of young love in ways I've never seen before in this medium.
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Her nonfiction memoir and journalism comics have been featured in various publications, including the Stranger, Seattle Weekly, Narratively, Bright, and the Huffington Post.
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Discovery will need to find something that defines the period in a narratively interesting way, something that makes it a time worth exploring.
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Annals and chronicles have typically been seen as less analytical than 'histories,' which more explicitly (and narratively) attempted to connect causes to effects.
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"Vox Lux" is an audacious story about a survivor who becomes a star, and a deeply satisfying, narratively ambitious jolt of a movie.
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" Janet Murray told me, "I'm all for empathy—I'm just not sure people will stay engaged for very long unless it's narratively compelling.
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But I sure didn't expect to be criticizing the show for suddenly developing a cinematic tic that makes it seem more narratively discombobulated.
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But they won't be narratively connected to Sony's latest reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, which kicks off this summer with Spider-Man: Homecoming.
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I can't just talk about psychedelia, I have to make my film itself somewhat narratively challenging, or formally inventive, in order to enact it.
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I'd argue that the best episodes (like "Fifteen Million Merits") earn that grimness thematically and narratively, and the worst (like "Arkangel") shoehorn it in.
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The narratively complicated mystery I See You plays with expectations and reality in the same way, but it's startlingly frank about its child disappearance.
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The developers, SIE Japan Studio and Project Siren, created an introduction that's doubly off-putting: narratively impenetrable to newcomers and aesthetically backwards to fans.
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Kobielski: It started with a call for pitches for Narratively , who was collaborating with the Vera Institute of Justice, looking for stories on jail.
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But the twist establishes two of New World Order's core themes: pointlessly convoluted political machinations and a plot built on narratively convenient dream logic.
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While it's still narrated by Hull, it's otherwise completely separate from the film, both narratively and aesthetically — and it's all the better for it.
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There's a theme throughout the film about how phone cameras are tools for citizen activists and body cameras are tools for the police, narratively.
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Warcraft's look and tone often falls somewhere between Avatar and John Carter, two other similarly CGI-heavy, narratively overstuffed would-be fantasy-franchise launchers.
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If Barack labors a bit to continue the date and maintain her interest, narratively speaking, Tanne faces a similar challenge in prolonging the movie.
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As far as I can tell, Krazy Kat never developed narratively or psychologically — it didn't need to for it was perfect from the start.
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Mr. Maitland put in time as an assistant director on the TV series "Law & Order" and he understands how to narratively string out violence.
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It pushed the boundaries of what rap could do, narratively, and challenged critics who felt that Eminem's popularity was couched exclusively in shock value.
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Narratively accessible, "Barry" is the kind of coming-of-age movie that should find love and an audience in the overpacked American theatrical market.
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Okay, let's acknowledge this: the Half-Life series was mechanically and narratively transformative for the first-person shooter genre and gaming as a whole.
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His narratively supple and inventive films chart the coordinates of desire among men and women who share and overshare, often during alcohol-soaked conversations.
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Narratively slight and at least a little nutty, this piece, created by the company Bucket Club, is deft in form and nifty in presentation.
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He focused on it again at the end of his life, always with conflicted feelings, evident in this fine, narratively paced, mood-swinging show.
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The inherent meta of the park is a deliberate remove; both stylistically and narratively, the show constantly reminds us we don't know the whole story.
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So, you can understand why Daenerys' sudden decision to follow in her father's footsteps, after eight seasons indicating the contrary, might feel a narratively confusing.
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I thought, I have enough now — maybe there's a story in here, or something I can do to make it a little more narratively driven.
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You broke down the long-term ramifications of Jon Snow's honesty, Tasha, and narratively, the present conflict here works out fine(ish) in the end.
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Finishing The Stone Sky left me utterly breathless by the scale and scope of what Jemisin accomplished in these three books — narratively, technically, and thematically.
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As a result, it feels like there's a widespread tendency to underestimate and underappreciate how narratively and aesthetically ambitious flatscreen video game worlds already are.
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Directed by longtime collaborator Ibra Ake, the film embodies Glover's typical patchwork: It's wonky, narratively indeterminate, and crammed with wit and the occasional inside joke.
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This gruesome practice is the cornerstone of Nebula's tortured persona, and her complicated relationship with her sister (which is narratively relevant; you'll understand why later).
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Amongst the franchise's fans, there are a number of folks upset that the TV show has narratively eclipsed the book series it is based on.
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Building on a narratively thin premise, it can't offer much more than the surreal novelty of Michael Shannon playing Elvis and Kevin Spacey playing Nixon.
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Production on the sixth and final season of "House of Cards" is currently on hold as producers figure how to narratively deal with Spacey's absence.
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For writers, it encourages writing tighter, more narratively coherent TV, which can be more creatively satisfying than keeping storylines spinning in order to fill episodes.
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Chronologically arranged but narratively discrete, Keene's collection of 13 stories and novellas examines lives marked by the tectonic historical pressures of its five-century scope.
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Ms. Dunye's loose, confident approach to characterizations makes the political issues play in a narratively organic way rather than as a series of contrived polemics.
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What connects the stories thematically, and eventually narratively, is Mr. Zimmerman's exploration of the contagion of culpability that spreads across communities and also through time.
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Take, for example, the film's protest scene, in which an instance of senseless (and narratively superfluous) violence occurs, further pitting Black folks against each other.
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The tension is only heightened by knowing that you might not make it to the end; that the danger, narratively at least, is genuine and present.
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While Netflix's shows were narratively inconsistent, they delivered phenomenal performances accompanied by gorgeous sets and genre-defining fight scenes that The CW's budget simply can't support.
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"The Hood Maker" The most cinematic and narratively ambitious of these first 10 episodes plays like a mash-up of Blade Runner and Minority Report. 5.
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Yet Jones's nuanced take is most fascinating when it deals not with the flashier evangelicals and their celebrity-studded megachurches, but with their narratively drabber cousins.
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It's narratively a slow burn, many animations are luxuriously played out in real-time, and simple actions often require lengthy sequences of button-presses to complete.
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" There are multiple ways to acquire Quirks—most of them fairly random—but only one that feels narratively substantial: When exploring dungeons, heroes come across "Curios.
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Narratively, it allows for something so striking that the first time I encountered it, I thought it was coincidence: Unexplored can create dungeons filled with foreshadowing.
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The idea of creating a sequel that was narratively linked to the original, and in a character-based way, really felt like the right creative approach.
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Narratively speaking, these stories evoke that famous line in Leonard Cohen's greatest song, 'Everybody knows that the war is over/Everybody knows the good guys lost.
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A narratively rich saga of life and love at the Japanese imperial court, it spurred innovation and was in many ways foundational to Japanese art itself.
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Narratively, Lil Yachty's two releases revolve around three characters: Uncle Darnell Boat – Yachty's middle-aged alter-ego – and his two nephews, Lil Yachty and Lil Boat.
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Too scattered narratively to cohere, and yet somehow still funny enough to justify its existence, "The Secret Life of Pets 2" makes for an entertaining trifle.
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I improvised the film directly in animation: pencils on paper, from the beginning to the end, following the tale's structure, but opening doors narratively when needed.
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A semiabstract evening-length work about Nijinsky by Marco Goecke proved repetitive and so narratively opaque that it required spoken text to clarify the stage action.
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On Sunday they stumbled onto their biggest score yet, as well as yet another car-based walker trick, this one less successful both narratively and aesthetically.
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These dramatically isolate him in the frame while creating an ambiguous, narratively untethered point of view, as if we were peering at him from a catwalk.
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Robin: I think it works narratively because it does titillate the audience in the same way having a sex scene does, but in a more dramatic way.
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Narratively, it's a little confusing as to how the elements of Wolfgang's rescue fall into place, but the events unfurl so swiftly they begin to feel inevitable.
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The approach can also feel narratively lumpy — the film takes significant detours for Vision's experiments with cooking and the inadequacies of Spider-Man's homemade crime-fighting costume.
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The film is very minimal, narratively speaking: it focuses on the final nights of Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience tour at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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The challenge the team faced wasn't small: it's a tall order to live up to what is arguably the most theatrical and narratively-driven trajectories in music.
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Let's explore: Narratively, there aren't a lot of sports that tell a clearer, more elegant story than a good ol' fashioned shoot-off at the archery range.
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Since the image crossed over to join the "floor is lava" concept, it's has morphed rapidly both visually and narratively to be about avoiding [insert x here].
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As with much in this hyper-aware movie, Mark fits the role he was created to play by motor-mouthing his way into a narratively justified demise.
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As for dinner tonight, let's keep with our Wednesday practice and cook narratively, without an actual recipe: Italian sausage subs with caramelized onions, melted peppers and mozzarella.
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And if you look a little closer, C-3PO's language lock is one of the realest, most narratively relevant pieces of tech in the Star Wars sequels.
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I like some of the box office behemoths — mostly, I like "Black Panther" — but too many of them were numbingly familiar in every way, narratively, tonally, whatever.
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It offers a narratively challenging "happy ending" — a story of beauty and goodness in defiance of evil — that, for Christians, is at the heart of their faith.
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This project started in 2015 when I got a call for pitches from Narratively seeking stories about jail for a collaborative piece with the Vera Institute of Justice.
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And Lucia Stanton, the protagonist of Jesse Ball's smart and narratively complicated new novel, "How to Set a Fire and Why," is having a worse time than most.
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This is true both strategically—Wright benefits in no small way from having an outfield that can run down most of the fly balls he surrenders—and narratively.
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"Jupiter's Lifeless Moons," which also features three guest musicians, is Mr. Terry's most narratively structured outing yet, with a plot inspired by his stay in Cleveland last winter.
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Manohla Dargis called the movie, inspired by the story of St. Anthony, "the single most delightful and narratively adventurous movie I saw at Toronto" during its film festival.
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He focused on it again at the end of his life, always with conflicted feelings, evident in this fine, narratively paced, mood-swinging show, which closes June 18.
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But Stewart-Ahn says that, narratively, the medium allows fans to do something they don't have a chance to do at the multiplex: imagine the scene for themselves.
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While Naomi's perspective is valuable as an insight into her family's (mis)fortunes, her character never quite progresses beyond a flattening, narratively stultifying fixation on her father's murder.
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What better and more narratively sensible way to get only a small number of people onto the surface of an unknown world than through a "cryptosleep" disaster in orbit?
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It was a narratively and visually disjointed pseudo-documentary shot on early 360-degree film equipment, and for the initial crop of VR fans, a bit of a letdown.
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Developed by BioWare, the title is supposed to be a narratively compelling cooperative game, but it hasn't really distinguished itself from shooters like Destiny, except for one thing: jetpacks.
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I love garbage TV and bad gay movies on Netflix because I think you can learn so much as a filmmaker watching things that are technically or narratively terrible.
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So it not only narratively makes sense, but it nicely serves to introduce the town to players who don't have that same connection to the place that Mae does.
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As he jumps between dreams, reflections, and action, some of the scenes are a bit jarring narratively, but they become comprehensible when viewed as metaphors for modern American discourse.
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For the two to die together, still in love, and as equals — with Cersei even sympathetically pleading for her life — feels like the wrong end for them, narratively speaking.
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Narratively, Malroth cannot create, he can only destroy, and from the outset there is both a loving alliance and a clear brooding weight between the player and the destroyer.
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"Bryan Fuller, Michael Green, and Neil Gaiman have evolved the art form of television narratively, structurally and graphically with American Gods," Carmi Zlotnik, Starz's president of programming, told Mashable.
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Narratively, though, the introduction of an assassination attempt also feels a little desperate and, potentially, like a bad omen for anyone waiting to witness the fall of Frank Underwood.
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Of the two, Biden is in the strongest position right now, following a string of wins on Super Tuesday and in the narratively important Michigan primary earlier this week.
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But they could only serve that purpose if they were dead — they knew too much — and they were also the most narratively expendable remaining members of the original crew.
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Beguiling and human describe the rest of "The Other Side," which is often as visually expressive and narratively engrossing as the faux art film is visually florid yet stultifying.
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"We had gotten to a point where something as narratively and thematically complex as this book could be addressed by the architecture-meets-projection elements we use," he said.
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Much like his wistful hit "Your Name," this movie centers on an adolescent boy and girl whose lives intersect, almost magically, and who mirror each other visually and narratively.
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But the playlist also suggests an aesthetic shift from the album, which in its platonic ideal form is narratively structured and contained, a creator's complete thought expressed in parts.
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It was decided by people who are specialists in these things, and it seemed incredibly natural: Narratively, we're both supporting the queen, so she's got to be the lead.
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"We're sitting down now, we're talking about the next 10 years of Star Wars stories and we're looking at narratively where that might go," she told The Star Wars Show.
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The Rain, thrilling and narratively complex, scoots past this detail in order to get on with the more interesting story: how Simone and Rasmus survive in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
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"Know Who You Are" It's a big pivotal moment here, narratively and musically, as Moana finds what she was looking for and the movie's themes of identity and independence converge.
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Narratively, it's nothing like Incredibles 2, but for fans of Pixar's emotional bravery, it's a perfect complement to Bird's film: it's less action-oriented and more about impressions and feelings.
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It gives her an obvious human motivation, a burning jealousy at being replaced by a newer model that is easy to understand narratively, even if Bermuda never acknowledges it herself.
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I know what Chloe is supposed to sound like, and though Before The Storm is set in the past, there's no way to narratively justify why she'd sound so different.
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Although the action lags a bit in this final section, narratively it is the inevitable (if surprising) endpoint of the story that began all those years ago when Dodge died.
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But also like a top, the first half of the new season, arriving in full Wednesday, covers a lot of ground while spinning back, narratively, to where it's already been.
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At Solax, she successfully made the transition to feature filmmaking, creating longer, more narratively complex titles that were well-received, though they also entailed higher production costs and longer preparations.
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A challenge game can be something difficult and new like God of War or Resident Evil 2, or it could be something that engages me narratively, like Night in the Woods.
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It had to be tied in seamlessly to everything that was happening narratively, and everything that's happening on-screen, so that it really only upheld the action rather than upstaging it.
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We had a basic rule of thumb: If you had to change something to be able to tell the story, narratively, then that was the only reason we could change it.
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The idea is that, while Riot focuses on the big, ongoing titles like the core League of Legends, indie studio will craft more narratively driven experiences within the same fictional world.
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Narratively, they land solidly where Ms. Walker has only lightly tread: the remorseless, racialized American present, which is suffused with the death rattle of white male domination and its multiple bigotries.
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When a movie ups the ante visually and narratively at every opportunity, it's no longer striving for coherence or scintillating social critique — it's trying to evoke something emotional in the audience.
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That time isn't reflected on-screen — narratively, it seems like Sansa waits about five seconds before spilling her sworn secret — but Weiss says she's already calculating the fallout of breaking the promise.
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But by narratively grounding the kids and forcing them to stick around at home, it also robbed the show of a lot of its momentum and left them running around in circles.
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Narratively, devoting some scenes to Caputo makes sense: He's the sole component of the MCC monolith who actually acknowledges the prisoners' humanity, who actively works to amplify the voices of the voiceless.
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Any of the games that "people call good" are pretty advanced either strategically or narratively, explained Castronova, and they offer players an interesting story and, more important, a series of interesting choices.
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In essence, once players make a commitment to a particular role that they see as narratively afforded, it becomes easier to continue the commitment instead of backing off and exploring other options.
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The single most delightful and narratively adventurous movie I saw at Toronto, "The Ornithologist" very loosely recasts the story of Anthony of Padua, a Portuguese saint who died in the 13th century.
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The level of animus feels as contrived as it is narratively useful, as is often the case in the bad-party movie, itself at times a subset of the confined-space flick.
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But I'd argue that even though The Walking Dead is intentionally and narratively full of despair, the problem is that its story in the last two seasons has been monotonous and bland.
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It's a visually and narratively disruptive moment that unsparingly reminds the viewer that evil calls the shots in this film, and that revenge and justice will ultimately have no place in it.
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"BoJack Horseman" creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg told Vulture it was Netflix's decision to cancel the series, though they gave him advance notice so the show would end in a narratively satisfying way.
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The expansion is called Shadowkeep, in line with a data mined leak revealed on Tuesday, and will bring players back to the Moon, a popular and narratively important destination from the original Destiny.
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Why it shocks: "Baelor" contains, narratively speaking, one of the most unexpected deaths in TV history (unless you read the A Song of Ice and Fire book series before watching Game of Thrones).
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But it's narratively more interesting to pick a lover, because in that choice lies one of the only stories where love and sex complicate the misthios's life in a way that feels impactful.
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I feel like a really good editor could have a field day turning a 16-episode season of this show into eight or nine really narratively powerful and action-packed hours of television.
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Narratively speaking, "The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears" is brilliant in the way it essentially turns Martha's absence into another character, lurking in the corner of every conversation.
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Ms. Bausch essentially invented the genre of dance-theater in these large-scale, ambitious pieces (since 1980, all designed by Peter Pabst), which offer physical and dramatic elements in fragmented, narratively unrelated form.
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"Narratively, it actually came out of an interest in gun violence in Chicago, and exploring those themes without doing a play about gun violence," said Mr. Allen, who wrote and directed the show.
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Whatever the ultimate explanation, it didn't really work, narratively, even if the visual expression of the idea that it is the commoners whose blood pays for the nobility's power struggles was horrifically dazzling.
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Atmospheric if narratively thin, "The Wind" (similarities to the 1928 silent film of the same name are coincidental) kicks up a competitive dynamic between the two women that further muddies the psychological waters.
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The fine Irish tradition of spinning a good yarn rattles with desperation in Enda Walsh's "Arlington," which has turned St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn into an electric shock ward for the narratively challenged.
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Break it down into a really sort of base iconic form and then stretch the limits of what it's capable of doing narratively by constantly remixing and re-juxtaposing them into new works.
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This narratively-driven single player game puts you in the role of a Jedi Padawan who narrowly escaped the purge of Order 66 following the events of Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith.
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The single room is high and airy, its design is thoughtful and inviting, and the clothes are as narratively mesmerizing and original as the sequence of Louise Bourgeois paintings on the back wall.
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As a player, you have to ultimately decide whether it's more of an act of over-the-top glorification than thoughtful commentary, even if it does narratively tie into Ellie's dark downward spiral.
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I've been happy that so far, Westworld's second season has felt much more stable, narratively speaking, with its twists feeling far more well-earned and contemplative than they did in the first round.
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An early quest about helping a friend that should take place, narratively speaking, over several hours, parallel to other tasks, can be wrapped in a quick 20 minutes without ever leaving a single port.
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And, like his superheroes, Mr. Bird is extraordinarily good at destruction, which is very much in evidence in the virtuosic, often delightful "Incredibles 2," which picks up narratively where the last movie left off.
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A Quiet Passion is a portrait (both visually and narratively) of the kind of saint most modern people can understand: one who is certain of her uncertainty, and longing to walk the right path.
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"For better or for worse (frequently the worse), the genre of conspiracy includes some of the most narratively ambitious, memetically successful, and potent oral traditions of modern American life," Hwang explains in a Medium post.
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Viewers would probably meet it with the kind of cult love and mass indifference that greeted similarly ambitious, effects-packed, narratively sprawling projects like Jupiter Ascending or Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
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But next to the much more visually and narratively elaborate entertainments that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or even compared with other snarky anti-superhero movies like "Deadpool" — "Venom" feels like pretty weak poison.
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Narratively, the show told 13 mini-stories within 13 episodes as Dylan Minnette's Clay listened to his deceased crush's voice for the last time — and vowed to get justice for the girl he secretly loved.
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A gritty VR sci-fi game might not have the light artistry of an animated short from Penrose or the similarly focused Oculus Story Studio, but it can be narratively complex in its own way.
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Lee's death in the first season might have seemed inevitable, but it was still daring, because even in a post-Game of Thrones world, it's commercially and narratively risky to leave behind beloved main characters.
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When John Marston rides into town in Rockstar's celebrated Western Red Dead Redemption, nobody talks about the hundreds—literally hundreds—of people he's killed: They ask only about his (narratively vital) hunt for Bill Williamson.
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There is no equivalent term for visual artists, however, and at any rate, the work they do can be less tangible, less narratively tidy, more difficult to define as complete — by both artist and audience.
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Coe: I really want readers to understand why it's significant that Washington was raised by a single mother, and then I want to proceed narratively as we would when that's treated like a foregone conclusion.
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You'd have thought that the narratively strong, imaginative version of "The Nutcracker" (2010) that Alexei Ratmansky made for the company would lure fans to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, yet too few made the trip.
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I knew that "Slow and Steady" would be first, "Never Leave a Job" second, and that the title track had to close out the record and I had the idea that narratively it all made sense.
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I have no idea why Matt Damon is in this (narratively, I mean — obviously he's just in this to sell the movie to American audiences), but it looks completely insane and at times kind of gorgeous.
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The full cycle of the seasons prove to be a smart through line: to understand both the repetition and the connectivity of Dunning's work, seeing it year round is narratively pragmatic as well as emotionally effective.
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In January and February of this year, through a series of More Art workshops in New York City, Mastrovito and his collaborators created new title cards, which were instrumental in retelling this story, both narratively and visually.
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At the same time, "The OA" narratively drifts a bit in its closing chapters, and those looking to be rewarded with anything resembling a blinding burst of clarity should be braced for disappointment before taking the plunge.
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And while it makes sense that the film would want to tie in narratively with the Soderbergh's Ocean's trilogy, it relies a little too heavily on our understanding of those movies' plot conventions for its own good.
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The last time Obsidian made a game like this, after all, it was Fallout: New Vegas, an inventive sequel to Bethesda's Fallout 3 that remains one of the deepest, most thematically and narratively satisfying RPGs ever made.
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At other times, White's stuntish approach — he vows at the outset that he won't "write about any period of camping history without living through it as much as possible" himself — comes off as a little narratively desperate.
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Or did they just remember the final heartbreaking ten minutes, get a pang at the thought of Hodor and his narratively satisfying story — forgetting the subpar Arya and Daenerys moments that take up the other 45 minutes?
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In the novels, Crichton presents Jurassic Park as a series of increasingly complex stories, which rely both narratively and thematically on Malcolm's perspective as a chaos theorist, even though the events unfold through multiple third person narrators.
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But the trick is actually more narratively justified in this inventive low-budget Japanese comedy, which quickly turns out to be an uproarious backstage farce about the perils of live television rather than a mere zombie spoof.
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And Snatcher, first released back in 1988, is one such game—and one that is painfully unavailable for contemporary systems, despite it holding up both visually and narratively as a pastiche-filled, lovingly fourth-wall-breaking graphic adventure.
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Even though the scenes illustrated with elaborate details are narratively fantastical, each marks a turning point in the stories as the characters confront the realities of their artistic paths — in heaven and in an alternative reality art installation.
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It's impossible to guess how narratively and tonally divided Legend is from the trailers, which present it as a standard-issue fantasy/historical epic, or maybe the latest "brand deposit" live-action version of an existing Disney movie.
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At first, you allot skill points across the usual spectrum of attributes, then you dive into towns brimming with quests and NPCs to banter with, enemy-laden wastelands, and plenty of branching paths to explore, physically and narratively.
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Even without the excellent voice acting and animation, Tangle Tower is still an interesting murder mystery full of complex characters and relationships, with an assortment of puzzles that are the right amount of challenging, varied, and narratively cohesive.
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This piece was published in partnership with The Human Toll of Jail, a storytelling project from the Vera Institute of Justice and Narratively that was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge.
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Ultimately, the feeling was, a bear works because it's got the right capabilities of movement that we need narratively, and also bears — particularly when they stand up — have that sort of strange, not-quite-human but slightly human quality.
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Strap in, suit up, and try to remember which briefcase was which — because, ranked from least to most narratively complex, here are 12 crime movies to help you feel like you're up to [gestures wildly] something while social distancing.
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It's one reason "Being Erica" fared the best, both narratively and in terms of longevity, of all these shows: Because it was the most focused on its own main character and her personal development, without an attached direct theology.
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That choice would be fine if Shannon wasn't the ultimate obsession of the show and wasn't played by one of comedy's most hysterical stars; but, Shannon is on both accounts, so, narratively, there needs to be more to that story.
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You can return to it pretty much whenever you'd like to, but narratively, it's dropped in favor of a series of one-off areas that are extremely linear and generally less interesting than what I'd been doing in the first half.
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The show gave us an arguably more narratively satisfying (if less emotionally resonant) ending by allowing Bonnie, Celeste, Jane, Madeline and Renata to keep the secret together, bonding them — and their kids — more closely in the aftermath of Perry's death.
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And that is ESSENCE, a collection of especially beautiful and weird places to poke around in, with just enough there to play with, mechanically and narratively, to keep it from feeling like I'm just running around on elaborate sound stages.
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It also does some very, very cool things narratively, with an ending that plays on the idea of forgiveness, and what it really means to forgive in a genuinely fucked up, upside down world with magical powers that are always paid for, steeply.
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It's a narratively deep role-playing game set in a cutthroat world where people change their bodies radically according to the whims of employers and cultural fads, trying to survive in an economic system that objectifies and exploits them in surreal ways.
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It also seems like a reasonable combination of mechanically feasible yet narratively ambitious — among other things, the developers hope players will feel drawn to replay the game once they fully understand the story, watching for how their actions can shape the plot.
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I don't just mean that I could tell that the story was going to get a little heavy, I mean that it became clear that Gravity Rush 2 was going to actually do surprising things—both narratively and mechanically—with verticality and scale.
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And its framework is more or less intact in this murky (narratively, visually) adaptation, which stars Ewan McGregor, as Perry, a professor of poetics whose dreary life perks up after he's swept up in a scheme involving a charismatic gangster, Dima (Stellan Skarsgard).
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"It is a bridge too far to narratively urge sympathy for someone who would crush those under her and actively participate in their imprisonment, their rape, and their suffering, simply because she eventually suffered a fraction of that suffering herself," Holmes argues.
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Narratively, Astral Chain draws openly and often from sci-fi anime staples like Neon Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, but (despite trying) can summon neither the former's sense of psycho-mythic dread nor the latter's sharp procedural storytelling.
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So far, the only thing to assuage my fears is that there doesn't seem to be more content in this expansion than in the past, but it's being deployed more strategically and strung together narratively in a way that is new to Destiny.
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The show seems to implicitly appeal for that patience right off the bat, with a brutal (and narratively vital) opening sequence set during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, an actual event in our real world as well as the fictional timeline.
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It's not as narratively interesting as Origins and it isn't as mechanically solid than even the original Assassin's Creed, which I replayed again earlier this year and found a lot more fresh and interesting than many people seem to give it credit for.
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A remake of the 1964 series of the same name (which itself didn't exactly scream "straight"), the film exudes bisexual energy at every turn, both narratively and in the chemistry, between not only its three protagonists but virtually everyone they come into contact with.
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The X-factor is, Wellick is also not entirely right in the head — that's where the "possibly insane" dimension comes in, though it's not clear if his is of the DSM-recognized variety, like Elliot's, or some vaguer flavor of narratively useful TV crazy.
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The Captain films, starring Chris Evans as the spangled hero, may not be the most giddily self-enthralled modern Marvel series (that'd be the Iron Man movies), nor the most narratively epochal (that honor, as occasionally dubious as it might seem, belongs to the Avengers films).
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But 20 years later, the score and soundtrack are still compelling (although half of the villain number "Be Prepared" apparently got stuck in a warehouse somewhere), and given that the script is still mostly unchanged, everything that worked narratively the first time around works again here.
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There's a tremendously repetitive, unfunny, and narratively pointless scene between Bobby and a prostitute calling herself Candy (Anna Camp); he hires her to come to his LA hotel room, but instantly loses interest when he finds out she's Jewish, a first-timer, and prone to weeping.
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OK, I'm not exactly counting, but Clinton has tried to do this over and over: In the fall, when she was leading Sanders by double-digits, after winning big in South Carolina, after Super Tuesday, and again tonight, after big and narratively important wins in Ohio and Florida.
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" Mancini didn't love that he had to follow the mythology added to the first film — in order to return to human form, Chucky can only transfer his soul to Andy, the first person he revealed his true self to — but he admitted that the "contrivance" was "very narratively useful.
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This narratively tight episode, which takes place over the course of three days, showcases the personalities, complexes, hangups, and aspirations of main characters in all their glory, without much screen time given to new (and only semi-welcome) characters like Jock Jeffcoat (Clancy Brown) and Grigor Andolov (John Malkovich).
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If Dark Souls III is narratively all about the past haunting the present, and the gameplay of the game is about finding allies and avoiding enemies from across vast scales on your way to an ending, then our real-world experience of play is a strange doppelganger reflection.
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But the HDR mode also causes a barely perceptible flicker when a movie or TV show jumps from shot to shot and the lighting changes (for my tests I watched House of Cards on Netflix, which tends to have a lot of dark scenes, both technically and narratively).
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It's a lot to shoulder narratively, but the story works because the focus on the relationship between the human Kenichi (Kei Kobayashi) and the robot Tima (Yuka Imoto) is so carefully cultivated and sustained, and because there's more to it than a simple dichotomy of good and evil.
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In "Toy Story 3" (2010), the boy who owned Woody (gently voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and their colorful playtime cohort, is headed to college and gives his toys to a new child, milestones that seemed to bring the series to a decisive, narratively rounded end.
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Narratively, the movie follows a strategy introduced in "Seven Men From Now," having Scott's character team up with a natural enemy (the gold-chasing Lee Marvin in "Seven Men"; Pernell Roberts and James Coburn as amnesty-seeking outlaws in "Ride Lonesome") for a common cause, postponing an inevitable showdown.
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Similarly, I suspect both the predominance of Negan thus far this season — both in the story and in the marketing — and the emphasis on separating the main characters — both narratively and by using narrowly focused episodes — was meant to instill in viewers a sense of helplessness and isolation.
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For another, not only does Michonne not come with an awkward (and narratively tedious) love triangle, but she's also arguably the most purely appealing "Walking Dead" character — a loyal, reliable comrade and warrior with both the coolest signature weapon and a slightly wounded quality, making her all the more relatable.
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The Pixar "brain trust" — a core group of insiders who push the studio's chosen writers and directors toward high-quality and immense risks — has a knack for emotional insight and a track record that speaks for the value of pushing the limits of what animation can do, visually and narratively.
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In one of the most stressful weeks of the year, TBS runs a marathon of A Christmas Story, a film so narratively disjointed, you can watch it as 10-minute chunks in a random order as it reruns through the day, and still have a great, if not superior, experience.
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She renders Kossola's story as he told it, not only linguistically, in his dialect, but narratively, in his own wandering way—sending readers into sad silences and on distracted errands of the sort she'd shared with him, closing the garden gate on them the way he'd closed it on her.
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They are advertisements for a dusty collection of middle American sentimentalities in general and occasionally for actual gaudy baubles made by Hallmark; those tend to be both the most narratively overdetermined and most determinedly sentimental efforts, the ones so gentle and grandma-safe that nothing actually happens in them, strictly speaking.
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But the important thing is the political storytelling and the sociological invention — the machinations of statesmen and soldiers and queens and cutthroats, under the weight of particular institutions and traditions, in a world more violent and extreme and death-shadowed and therefore (let's be honest) more narratively interesting than our own.
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"Bryan Fuller, Michael Green and Neil Gaiman have evolved the art form of television narratively, structurally and graphically with American Gods, and we're thrilled to be working again with these artists as they continue to build the worlds and wars of the gods," Starz programming president Carmi Zlotnik said in a statement.
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Peter Rubin, Senior Editor: The meeting between the Seivarden and the high priest on Shis'urna in Chapter 2, while narratively opaque (and thus setting the tone for the "keep up, dummy" tenor of the world-building), was also the first glimmer of the true obfuscation in the book: not gender, but subtext.
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This overhead shot and others suggest that there's a divine aspect to the priests' mission, an idea that Mr. Scorsese visually and narratively underlines in the Lazarus-like cave in which Rodrigues and Garupe first take shelter in Japan; in Rodrigues's self-aggrandizing identification with Jesus; and, crucially, through the figure of Judas.
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You will need the largest size of over-priced movie soda in order to attempt to combat the extreme thirst one may experience during this movie, but also, because narratively and directorially, the film is just so damn compelling, you will be loathed to miss a second of it due to multiple bathroom breaks.
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You need to look to indie movies for more complex, narratively pivotal representations of women, like those in "Support the Girls," in which Regina Hall plays den mother to a group of waitresses, and "Leave No Trace," about a teenage girl who, while living off the grid with her damaged dad, becomes its hero.
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Retirement-age women actors get almost no screen time to begin with, but when they do, they're typically cast as the butts of jokes (as is the case in Book Club) or zen masters dispensing their accumulated wisdom to younger, more narratively central people (see General — neé Princess — Leia in the latest Star Wars trilogy).
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" Top executives from Disney, which owns ABC, declined to give comment to The Hollywood Reporter, though this summer ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey told them, "Things are cyclical and Kenya is at a point in his career where he wants to explore some different things narratively that he didn't feel he could do in broadcast.
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Among the episode's less successful gambits, both narratively and creatively, was Darlene's ploy to to use Agent Dom's badge to gain access to the F.B.I. The most effective lies being mostly true, Darlene outlined the stressers that have legitimately plagued her all season — the deception, the isolation — as part of a duplicitous seduction attempt.
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At the time of former NFL great's infamous slow-speed Bronco pursuit, Travolta was in France at the Cannes Film Festival, where upstart writer/director Quentin Tarantino's second, narratively revolutionary film Pulp Fiction had just won the prestigious Palm d'Or award, signaling what was to become one of the most celebrated career resurgences in Hollywood history.
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Watching them together is the greatest pleasure of The Old Man & the Gun, especially because Lowery chooses to settle the film in the 1970s visually as well as narratively, with the kinds of long, slow takes and zooms and the sort of film grade and coloration you'd see in a film from that much earlier era.
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The season premiere accidentally aired four hours early on DirecTV; the second episode leaked online before its premiere; and photos from the third episode appeared online before it droppedHowever, rampant piracy has seemingly not blunted too much of the show's momentum, with Game of Thrones continually breaking ratings records (even as it has arguably become somewhat of a huge mess, narratively speaking).
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But the game is so visually breathtaking and narratively impactful that it's worth revisiting, especially if you have a PS4 Pro and a proper 4K / HDR TV. Shadow of the Colossus Sony's God of War reboot, which took home the top prize at this year's Game Awards, is a downright system seller — one of the few reasons to pick up a PS4 this late in the console's life cycle.
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This duality—that of absolute power and total insecurity—is one that is always evident in Olivia Colman's performance as Anne, and one that feels particularly relevant in a film so concerned with both artifice (formally, we're constantly reminded that we're being told a story by both Lanthimos's high stylization and the chapter structure; narratively, the film is all about the power that lying and manipulation can yield) and womanhood.
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While modern man has brought the world tales of Jesus as bizarre and violent as 2001's Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter (watch at your peril), not even this irreverent and experimental age has come up with stories quite as theologically dense, narratively amusing, and morally disconcerting as the early Christians' views of the young Jesus, asleep in his crib, but ready to unleash his blessings and wrath on the world as soon as he wakes up.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I wrote the following capsule review of Depraved, a new film by Larry Fessenden, just after viewing it, in part to spur on ideas for a fuller review: Immediately ensnaring and narratively circuitous on levels literal, mesmerizingly visual, and metaphorical alike, Depraved is not a mashup, rather a pastiche of essentially all you might hope for it to layer, paste, stick, piece, and yes, oh yes, stitch together — from film and literary references to production values, chronologies, political critiques, and philosophies.
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Baelish wants to endlessly complicate the story and draw it out unreasonably with alliances that make no sense; Varys, on the other hand, wants order and resolution, justice for the innocent, a vile end for the guilty This matches the twin desires of anyone who's been tuning in: On one hand there's the desire for twists and shocking moments of death and/or nudity, and on the other there's a yearning for a show that stays faithful to the books, weaves a plot that's narratively and philosophically coherent, and comes to a timely end.
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