On the other hand, she noted that it "gets a little exposition-heavy in spots" and older readers may have seen the ending coming.
Events move at bewildering speed – a little more exposition would have helped with the breathless feeling of tearing, like Buster Keaton, after a train that one can never quite catch – ending in a spectacular finale with James Bond-esque levels of chaos and destruction.
There is little exposition about how the system works; the viewer becomes a fly on the wall during their journey, at times, by design, as disoriented as the characters.
Accomplishing these ends with very little exposition makes "Something Big" quite unusual, and like its illustrations, very artful indeed.
There is no incidental music and little exposition, and Mr. Denis's clinical realism might in itself become oppressive if not for Ms. Testud's ferocious, frightening performance as Christine Papin, whose fanatical devotion to her younger sister Léa made her the primary actor in a bloody social tragedy (Scott).
I'm not sure that's the best way to play it, but I can see Turner's point: she has to accentuate Young Woman's innocence in order to cook up some kind of dramatic tension; in Treadwell's script, things happen, and rather quickly, but there's little exposition.
With minimal dialogue and little exposition, Hulsing manages to elevate the more banal actions with vibrant, revealing animation to create something almost more real than a simple live-action narrative.
First, a short exposition on "narcissism".
Yet "Intimate Apparel" lags; there's a little too much exposition in the first act, and there are some overlong scenes in the second.
There's a little too much exposition and angst when Charlie fears the kinky boots may not be ready in time for a Milan fashion show and a Whitney Houston-inspired torch song that Lola sings in a nursing home seems a tad overblown.
