Sentences with phrase «as social satire»

The title of Jordan Peele's film — which begins as social satire and evolves, in this scene, into nightmarish terror — references what audiences should be shouting at Chris by now.

As social satire, it is as sharp as they come.

With the spotlight on the two minorities, the script also reaches new objectives and accomplishes more as a social satire than most serious films have in the past decade.

unlike babyface which could be deemed as a social satire about a ghetto girl's eager angst to clander to the top in search of power, harlow's reddish circe is more like a ridicule of sex such as the scene she's trapped in the phonebooth and the absurd connotation of sadism & masochism as harlow remarks «do it again!

As you probably know, The Hunger Games is a young adult novel in which children are pitted against each other in a violent death match, serving as a social satire...

Not exact matches

Now, I've written science, satire, and done interviews, as well as worked on a social media campaign for the Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners, Michigan.

In the end, the whole enterprise comes off as too clever for its own good, a social satire without a clear target.

Smart without being smart - mouthed, shrewd without being calculated, and quite obviously the work of a filmmaker with something important to say and a clear and impish way of saying it, Jerry Maguire is a triumph of nuanced social satire masquerading as a commercial romantic comedy, a movie that can both make fun of and wallow in its celebration of the crass spectacle American sport has become.

In Sergei Loznitsa's weighty social comment «A Gentle Creature,» a woman in the Russian countryside quietly sets out to deliver a care package to her (presumably wrongfully) imprisoned husband and encounters such heavy obstacles that would play as satire if they weren't so dramatic.

He might have been well advised to have kept The Lobster within the confines of the resort hotel; inside those boundaries the screenplay functions as a sharp satire of social attitudes on relationships — especially the doubtful pairing of couples and the tendency to ostracize singles.

This fainthearted bid at social satire stars Nicolas Cage as a middle - aged man gazing into the yawning void of his life.

A patriarch can not keep the farm going as a concern, can not even educate his youngest child, and can not prevent his embittered sons from violent Oedipal conflict followed by flight; surface naturalism is rent by dream, mysticism, and savage social satire.

As long as he plays to his strengths in comedy with a tinge of social satire, and delivers us a little something new with the action, this could definitely surprisAs long as he plays to his strengths in comedy with a tinge of social satire, and delivers us a little something new with the action, this could definitely surprisas he plays to his strengths in comedy with a tinge of social satire, and delivers us a little something new with the action, this could definitely surprise.

And yet, his latest work plays just as much like a blown - up, fun home image of Mike Judge's «Idiocracy,» as it too uses the conventions of science fiction to mount a caustic social satire.

Bruce, the stand - up comedian whose focus on social satire, was the forerunner of controversial greats such as George Carlin and Bill Hicks; Hoffman received his third Oscar nomination for his performance.

It is there that Henry learns about the importance of social media and «alpha - stacking», real practices that are perfectly ripe for the satire they're served up as here.

The Lobster was a bit of a shock for everyone who went in expecting an off - kilter black romance — instead director Yorgos Lanthimos served up a disquieting social satire with underpinnings of horror as his first English - language feature.

However you consume them, the behind - the - scenes stories, from John Barry's intentions (he said he thought of it as a love story) to Martin Amis's motivation for taking the script - writing job (apparently he was a sci - fi buff before becoming a novelist famous for literary social satire) to Kirk Douglas's behaviour on set (Amis later said that Douglas «wanted to be naked,» and very much wanted Fawcett to be naked with him), are delicious.

The film attempts to juxtapose extremely heightened, broad farce with social satire in a period setting along with dark subject matters such as cannibalism and incest.

Cowritten by Brooks and Monica Johnson, this satire of Hollywood is embellished with sharp, frequently hilarious observation of its ritual humiliations and shallow social and professional interactions, with notable contributions from Jeff Bridges as a self - absorbed Oscar - winning screenwriter friend, Steven Wright as Stan Spielberg («I'm Steven's cousin»), and Martin Scorsese in a self - parodying cameo.

Not every film addressing the persecution of enslaved Africans and their descendants need be as chastening as 12 Years a Slave, but Tarantino's satires are so geared to delivering their elaborately contrived comic pay - offs they dilute their social messages.

Below is the first trailer for Gunpowder & Sky's Tragedy Girls, a biting satire about social media stardom — think of it as a modern - day Clueless, only these girls murder people... and tweet about it.

And with those words, the Oakland - based rapper Boots Riley, making a knockout filmmaking debut as writer and director, spins a social satire that'll make you laugh till it hurts, Stanfield, so good in Get Out, hits all that right notes from mirth to malice.

like television, and the movie loses steam as the rom com plot kicks in and the social satire gets chucked out the window.

Peele manages genuinely fearful thrills but also injects some humour into the proceedings where it also works as a fearless social satire.

It can also be seen as a snapshot analysis of social satire, a» la the 1989 Billy Warlock film «Society.»

As he proved in 1999's underrated war drama / western / satire / heist / action film / comedy / political thriller / social conscience movie Three Kings, Russell is a master at defying genre.

The movie marks the noteworthy directorial debut of Etan Cohen, whose successful mix of over-the-top slapstick and subtle social satire yields a cinematic experience as silly as it is thought - provoking.

As a director, Bong's great skill is soulful social satire, juxtaposing the absurd with surprisingly touching moments that help his films retain a kind of humanism that can sometimes be lacking in satirical works.

The Stepford Wives meets Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in Get Out (2017), the directorial debut of writer / comedian Jordan Peele, a tricky and successful mix of social satire, modern horror, and savvy commentary on race as experienced by a person of color in a largely white society.

As a thriller, Black Swan doesn't do much more than graft a few phantom frames onto the periphery of Jean Benoit - Levy's Ballerina, Altman's The Company, or Powell / Pressburger's The Red Shoes — but note how the picture owes its creepy intensity to the sort of social satire - through - body horror popularized by David Cronenberg.

Get Out, a whip smart social satire, all dressed up as a deeply unsettling horror, was one of the best films of 2017.

While crude and vulgar, the movie is also a brilliant political and social satire and contains some darn good tunes as well.

Like some sketch - comedy Frankenstein monster made from the cutting - room entrails of «Clueless,» «The Opposite of Sex,» «To Die For,» «Election» and «Heathers,» the puerile social satire «Pretty Persuasion» is stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated...

Not connected to anything like atonement or social / racial satire, Mr. Wong hovers there in the background as occasional wise commentary while Norbit loses his childhood sweetheart Kate (Thandie Newton) and marries the monstrous Rasputia (yes, Murphy).

As other weaker films picked up prizes, notably Olivier Assayas» Personal Shopper and Andrea Arnold's American Honey, many were struck, if not shocked, by the hot tips that were forgotten, notably Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Aquarius, Jim Jarmusch's Paterson and even the last day's black - comedy crime cum social satire, Elle, by Paul Verhoeven, which turned into a perfectly boisterous way to conclude a selection that, inevitably, contained principally grim fare.

Satire well done, as it is here, may be the most lethal form social commentary.

Aubrey Plaza is excellent as an Instagram stalker in Matt Spicer's bitingly funny and deeply uncomfortable social media satire.

The social condition that ended a dark and disturbing passion play in 1931 also ignites Renoir's very next film in 1932 as an uproarious social satire, Boudu Saved from Drowning.

In addition to writing another, as - yet - untitled social satire à la Get Out, he's turning his attention to television, excavating our deepest horrors with an HBO series (produced with J. J. Abrams) about the Jim Crow South called Lovecraft Country; another one centered on a group of 1970s Nazi hunters, Black Klansman; and then, of course, a reboot of The Twilight Zone, where he can take his specific talent for merging horror, social commentary, and a dose of sci - fi and apply it to the revered TV series, which he will re-imagine with X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg.

Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) Shipstead's debut novel is a social satire set on a private New England island, as a father prepares to give away his (already pregnant) daughter, and other wedding guests and family members face lust, old rivalries and obligations that come with privilege.

This sharp and insightful social satire is an all - too - timely look at race relations in America, as three ostensibly liberal and definitely privileged Berkeley students from various backgrounds travel with a friend and classmate to his home in rural Georgia — just in time for a Civil War re-enactment.

«Hollinghurst writes harsh but deeply informed social satire from within, just as Proust did.

Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.

Indeed, with her adeptness at luring viewers with captivating (and seemingly innocuous) hand - painted illustrations, humorous texts, and sheer scale and then surprising them with content that is remarkably honest — by turns subversively friendly or bitingly critical and addressing such fraught subjects as power dynamics, social marginalization, and even the machinations of the art world — she has smartly aligned herself with the enduring and boundary - pushing strategies of satire, parody, and caricature.

The works in «Laughter in the Dark» can be viewed within the distinguished tradition of political satire and social commentary by artists such as Hogarth, Daumier, Goya, and Picasso.

In what was intended as a pointed social satire, Vereen performed the famous show tune «Waiting for Robert E. Lee» in blackface during the first act, then sang the mournful song «Nobody» while removing the blackface during the second.

The paintings are a sharp social satire as much as they are a loving tribute to the world the artist knows best: the international art scene.

Her work harks back to the grotesque satire of popular social convention expressed by such artists as James Ensor and Otto Dix and exhibits the visceral comedy of Nathalie Djurberg and Tetsumi Kudo.

Could our society — one obsessed with products, satire, social media, and environmental collapse — be interpreted by future beings as something completely different from our current reality?