As members of that clan, Kris Kristofferson, Val Kilmer and Dwight Yoakam are compelling in beautifully lived-in, vanity-free performances, but the drama's escalating dread fizzles in a farcical pileup of disaster.
It's never entirely clear and mostly feels like a distracting reach for artiness when Tipping's already assured handling of the escalating dread of Brandon's misadventure shows visual punch — he's clearly a burgeoning talent with material that's both grimly naturalistic and pulse-pounding.
The present study offers a first step by exploring the link between mother and father tendencies to view potentially threatening situations as rapidly escalating toward dreaded outcomes (i.e., looming cognitive style) and the emotional disturbances and looming cognitive styles of their adult offspring.
A relentless and escalating sense of dread prevails over the film, as the horror keeps closing in.
But once Chuck is aboard a FedEx plane flying over the Pacific, an escalating sense of dread takes over as the aircraft gives a warning shudder.
When my parents were alive and elderly, their health crises escalating, there was, for years, the dread of the phone ringing late — at the wrong time.
It's a little like "Monolith" in how it escalates, albeit without the same degree of dread attached.
In filmmaking, the director must perform a kind of seduction of dread, leading viewers through an escalating series of psychological states.
Victimized by the market and their previous hesitancy in the Williams negotiations, the Yankees ultimately pulled out of escalating negotiations with the dreaded Albert Belle and opted to match Boston's seven-year offer to Williams, closing the deal at $87.5 million, more than a 50% increase from their previous offers over the course of a year.
For months, listeners had been waiting in dread for Rob's violence to escalate, so O'Connor's decision to have Helen wield the knife came as a surprise.
Of course, the level of violence and chaos escalates as the book nears its conclusion, and the sort of disaster that we anticipate and dread in all of Bainbridge's fiction inevitably occurs.
