'Coherence' was produced on a shoestring. You can tell. It's shot with multiple video cameras, often wildly, and while much of the overlapping dialogue is comprehensible, some sinks into audio muck. A lot of the action in this night-set film is confined to the interior of the house. When the characters venture outdoors, it's hard to tell what's going on because you can barely see the actors. That the comet has allegedly wrought havoc with electricity only partly excuses this. Even on a moonless night in a forest, your eyes adjust.

/ kəʊˈhɪə.r ə ns / C2 the situation when the parts of something fit together in a natural or reasonable way: There was no coherence between the first and the second half of the movie.

• The paragraph shows coherence. There is a flow of thoughts and ideas among the sentences in this paragraph. There are good transitions employed in the paragraph. The writer also presents her sub-topics in an orderly fashion that the reader can follow easily. The paragraph is developed. The writer gives herself enough space to develop the topic.
• Coherence. Coherence refers to the overall sense of unity in a passage, including both the main point of sentences and the main point of each paragraph. Coherence focuses the reader’s attention on the specific people, things, and events you are writing about To Improve Cohesion For Cohesion in Sentence Beginnings. Put the OLD FIRST.

Amazingly, though, none of the movie's technical or artistic shortcomings prove to be deal breakers. Once 'Coherence' delves into its premise, the viewer is bound to come down with a bad case of the creeps. This is a less-is-more science fiction-horror tale, indebted to the original 'The Twilight Zone' (particularly 'The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street') as well Luis Bunuel's 'The Exterminating Angel,' as well as certain recent science fiction indies that I won't name here because I did, you'd immediately deduce the film's first big twist. (Spoilers start in the next paragraph.) And it's genuinely more of a horror film than a suspense or 'terror' film because, while there's some violence, the source of unease is philosophical. The characters are frightened by what they don't know, then by the implications of what they've been able to figure out. What's being threatened in 'Coherence' is who they are, or what they think they are; not just the integrity of their bodies (though that's at risk, too) but their identities.

This is an ensemble movie, but its closest thing to a protagonist is Em (Emily Foxler, who has a great reactive face), a dancer whose career has suffered an unspecified setback. Em shows up at the party with her boyfriend Kevin (Maury Sterling of “Homeland”) who proceeds to add tension to the evening by offering up an anecdote involving his ex-girlfriend Laurie (Lauren Maher), who's also a guest. Also on hand is Mike (Nicholas Brendon of 'Buffy') whose greatest performance might be as a guy who isn't depressed and irritated that nobody remembers that he starred on 'Roswell.' There's a pagan cleric type named Beth (Elizabeth Gracen), and a tall, volatile, bearded guy named Hugh (Hugo Armstrong) who keeps trying to contact a friend who seems to have inside knowledge of all the strange goings-on (disrupted cell phone service, power outages and the like).

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Noun	1.	coherence - the state of cohering or sticking together coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness connectedness, connection, link - the state of being connected; 'the connection between church and state is inescapable' consistency - logical coherence and accordance with the facts; 'a rambling argument that lacked any consistency' incoherence, incoherency - lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
2.	coherence - logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts comprehensibility, understandability - the quality of comprehensible language or thought

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