Word: emotionalize
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Using the music and the cramped theater to maximum advantage, Matteau explores her themes--voyeurism and violation--with startling power, and at several moments creates enough real emotion to justify all the risks she takes.
Priest, directed by Antonia Bird, is sensational only in its content. At heart it is a TV drama with a one-track mind; Jimmy McGovern's script has no fewer than four scenes in which someone intrudes on a couple's sexual intimacy. Bird cues every emotion with spell-it...
Why can't a movie be more like a woman? How is it that Hollywood films are usually built like Arnold Schwarzenegger--big and burly, with way more muscle power than is needed? Much rarer is the notion that a film can address the subtleties of emotion, that it can...
The whole scene is overtly sentimental, but Grady's emotion is described unselfconsciously so that we don't resist it: "I was seized with a powerful longing to put my arms around [Irv], to brush his rough cheek against mine, to sit down and eat the bread of affliction with...
The second act, dealing with more serious topics, is not so joke-filled as the first, but its satire of the Eighties is bitingly funny. Mendel most openly condemns the new decade: "half my patients/yuppie pagans/modeled on this/Ronald Reagan" Yet he and Trina seem to be living quite the yuppified...