Sentences with phrase «american movie of the year»

It also happens to be the most compelling American movie of the year so far.

No other American movie of this year (or the past several years) filled a screen more elegantly, or with more constant assurance that every witty, ironic, or erotic movement would carry us deeper into a most civilized argument.

Frederik Lyons points out that James Gray's Two Lovers is being called the best American movie of the year.

one of the best American movies of the year and a great double bill with NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.

One of the great American movies of the year, Jordan Peele's directorial debut has a lot on its mind: It's a blistering attack on latent white racism among America's wealthy one percent, and the story merges the interracial dynamics of «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» with a B - movie premise worthy of George Romero.

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In recent years, the statuette has gone home with lesser - seen movies, often from off the mainstream radar — offbeat or «prestige» titles that captured the imagination of Academy voters if not the American public — to the near - total exclusion of big budget Hollywood blockbusters.

The American arm of the movie - rental chain filed for bankruptcy a year ago, but Blockbuster Canada hung on.

Those funds went to American purchases like luxury homes in Manhattan and Los Angeles, to help finance the Hollywood movie «The Wolf of Wall Street» and to acquire paintings by Picasso and Monet, they said in a civil suit last year.

After interviewing some former Irish terrorists and seeing the carnage they wrought, Burleigh can not understand why so many clergymen came to their aid, why so many Irish Americans toasted and financed their activities for years, and why movie scriptwriters continue to mislead the public: «Hollywood contributes its quotient of surreal movies about nobly moody Irish terrorists allegedly facing agonizing moral dilemmas, rather than the reality of intimidating drunks cutting people's throats....

The fact that this movie arrives a year, almost to the day, after the massacre carried out by Dylann Roof against nine African - American churchgoers in Charleston, SC only adds to the intense emotions that Free State of Jones evokes.

For years people have asked whether the amount of violence portrayed on American movie and TV screens has anything to do with the growing violence on our streets and in our homes.

Brown won an Emmy last year as best supporting actor in a limited series / movie for his work in The People V. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story and has taken his talents to NBC for the pilot season of This Is Us.

In their analysis, the researchers found the number of times a movie 25 years or older is referenced by other movies best predicts inclusion in this registry of American films deemed «culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.»

When an ABC News Poll asked 1028 Americans earlier this year which movie should win the 2003 Academy Awards, 42 % named the eventual winner, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, compared to only 16 % who voted for the runner - up, Seabiscuit.

I haven't been in the movies the last five years because I was giving the audience a break, the legendary and enigmatic Eddie Murphy tells me as we sit Eddie Murphy is the most commercially successful African - American actor in the history of the motion picture business and is one of the industry's top

The year's other teenage - girl - goes - to - Europe - falls - in - love - finds - herself movie couldn't be more of a reflection of the unneeded simplicity and hug - worthy déjà vu of American centrism found in What a Girl Wants.

Ultimately, good intentions aside, the only point that You Don't Mess With the Zohan really proves is Newton's Law of Gravity; cowriter Judd Apatow has been THE dominant voice in American film comedy for the last three years (and I'm even counting the underrated Drillbit Taylor), but this movie proves that even HE had to come down some time!

Her first American film was Island in the Sun (1956) for Fox, and then Owens was loaned out to Warner Bros. to play opposite Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara (1957), one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year.

And American grownups took pleasure in the palpable Englishness of the movies: the boarding - school rituals and rivalries; the crisp speech of the tiny and then adolescent actors; the mastery of such older performers as Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, and Michael Gambon, all of them drawing on stage traditions and a deep vein of licensed eccentricity going back hundreds of years.

Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's «Old Joy» and Ryan Fleck's «Half Nelson,» it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in «Crash,» «Babel» and «Little Children»).

His credits in the 1980s included Stalin in the 1980 TV movie FDR: The Last Year, Barbra Streisand's father in Yentl (1983), and the robust voice of Papa Mousekewitz in the 1986 animated feature An American Tail.

Single Cell then delivered two of the following year's most acclaimed releases: American Movie, a documentary profile of a would - be horror filmmaker from Milwaukee; and the darkly comic fantasy Being John Malkovich.

Two years after 2001 came out, the year 1970 ushered in that decade's I - Like - Ike nostalgia fad with the U.S. release of Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, a monster - cum - alien saucer movie featuring a buzz - cut American who saves the world.

It's one of the richest movie experiences of the year, a spellbinding American epic that holds you firmly in its grip for nearly three hours.

Horror came back to a certain degree in American movies and culture in the last four years - what did you think of some of the movies and such that came out of that trend?

Last year brought us a trove of high - profile American indie directors: Whit Stillman, Todd Solondz, Ira Sachs and Kenneth Lonergan, the latter who debuted his Manchester by the Sea (which topped our list of the best movies of 2016).

Movie of the Year «American Sniper» «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 ″ «Guardians of the Galaxy» «Gone Girl» «The Fault In Our Stars» «Boyhood» «Whiplash» «Selma»

«At Berkeley» — Frederick Wiseman's four - hour documentary about the great public university, shot in 2010 at a time of campus - wide unrest over budget shortfalls, says more about the state of American education — and by extension, America itself — than any other movie this year.

In December / January for the last few years we've been treated to the likes of American Hustle and Joy, and this year we get to see J - Law in a thrilling new science - fiction movie called Passengers, the first clip for which has just arrived online.

Who expected the box - office flop roundly mocked by critics — and also in the emails unleashed by the Sony hack — to be one of the year's most elegantly shot American movies?

Directed by John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London) at the height of his success and released the same year as both his iconic music video for Michael Jackson's «Thriller» and his career - damaging lethal contribution to Twilight Zone: The Movie, this is a high - concept comedy as straightforward as its title suggests.

JENNIFER JASON LEIGH, the 48 - year - old American actress best known for her role in the movie «Single White Female», is seeking primary custody of her...

It was easily last year's most corrosive Hollywood movie about the American way of life, and it was especially good at showing the claustrophobic desperation of living in a small midwestern town and slowly going insane — a potent literary theme at least since Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.

In fact, it is the only one of the decade's ten to feature on both installments of the American Film Institute's widely recognized 100 Years... 100 Movies countdowns.

James Franco, the 32 - year - old American actor and star of the «Spiderman» movies, will co-host the 2011 Oscars with actress Anne Hathaway, reports...

It's not clear if Free Fire will be a box office success when it hits North American theaters next month, but it's easily one of the most entertaining movies you'll see all year.

The highest - grossing movie of that year was Clint Eastwood's drama American Sniper.

But the heaviness is also essential to the architecture and impact of what I'm thinking is the year's first maybe - great American movie.

In an early scene, after Nick has saved the life of a yakuza in prison and has been rewarded with his freedom, he encounters a corrupt and loudly racist American bureaucrat (Rory Cochrane) still in Japan after the War (have I mentioned that we're supposed to be only a handful of years post-Hiroshima in this movie, even though the aesthetics all scream contemporary?).

Until this year, Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur mostly made two types of pictures: dramas in his native language about men trying to survive under brutal conditions («The Deep») and action - adventures in English with American movie stars («2 Guns»).

Also wildly innovative, with eight nominations and its own wunderkind creator — the 37 - year - old Barry Jenkins — the movie tracks a gay African - American boy through three stages of life on the mean streets of Miami.

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

Another impressive aspect of this year's numbers is that the billion was reached via a wide array of genres — war movies (American Sniper), Fantasy (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), disaster movie (San Andreas), post-apocalypitic thriller (Mad Max: Fury Road, and R - rated comedy (Get Hard) among them.

I was looking forward to it more than any other summer movie this year, but Planet of the Apes turns out to be the worst movie by a Great American Director since Brian De Palma slogged his way through Mission to Mars last year.

The Best Picture winner of that year — one that heralded for many the ascendance of the «indie» and predicted, if one were cynical enough to predict such a gloriously retarded thing at the time, the major studios scampering to erect boutique «major - minis» and hence create their very own independent movies — was of course Sam Mendes's grimoire of suburban gothic archetypes, American Beauty.

Movie of the Year, Presented by Geico «American Sniper» «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1» «Guardians of the Galaxy» «Gone Girl» «The Fault in Our Stars» * WINNER «Boyhood» «Whiplash» «Selma»

Get Out: The most astonishing writing - directing debut in years, Peele's mash - up of horror and comedy and social satire is, also, flabbergastingly, the most trenchant new movie about American race relations.

«Episode IV: A New Hope» Lucas» original space - spanning saga has become such an iconic American movie that it's joined the ranks of «The Wizard of Oz» — nearly every moment, camera set - up or line of dialogue has been quoted, referenced or lampooned by another movie over the years.

The movie's $ 14.4 million North American gross puts it at the high end of under 1,000 - theater fare and above the year's very worst - performing wide releases.

If you don't know the man by name, then you surely know him by his work: he directed the movie - adaptation of 30 Days of Night several years back, the indie - gem Hard Candy, as well as episodes of (the incredible) Hannibal, and American Gods.