Not exact matches
Rather than take on the entire movie — which includes an inexplicable ending, piss - poor greenscreen, and at least a dozen other noxious elements — let's
look at the two most infamous moments, which represent
everything wrong
about this
film.
The Houses October Built Blu - ray — A group of friends
films a documentary
about the most extreme Halloween haunts in the country, soon discovering an underground organization called the Blue Skulls that gives them
everything they have been
looking for and more.
The best thing
about the
film is the action scenes, but these are undercut by an overall lack of color and poor lighting causing
everything to
look murky and undistinguished.
From the perfect production design and washed out
look, to the cast and lead performance by Oscar Isaac (who I will be rooting for to get the Oscar) as folk musician Llewyn Davis, to the amusing but tragic story at its core,
everything about this
film is near perfect.
This time the spoof net is even wider, and arguably more lazy, with nods to just
about everything in the mere periphery of pop culture rears its head in this ugly, ugly
looking film.
No one
looks at photos anymore, since
everything anyone would want or need to know
about a person can be obtained from an oral swab (women and men visit a dating booth, where the recently amorous have samples of potential mates tested, and it's where a co-worker (Uma Thurman) tries to find out more
about «Jerome,» in the
film's clumsy and obligatory romantic subplot), which is helpful.
by Walter Chaw As a huge admirer of John Sayles's middle - period body of work — a period marked by such pictures as Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my pick for the best American
film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to
look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it
everything I like
about Sayles side - by - side with
everything that's fast making him irrelevant.
Pretty much
everything about it, and its accompanying music video, oozes 2002: JT's Crouching Tiger — inspired dance moves, the Britney
look - a-like, the tramp stamp on the model who helps him
film a revenge sex tape, the fact that the revenge sex tape was
filmed with a clunky camcorder, and not a phone.
(There's an amazing moment of recognition, late in the
film, when she
looks into a mirror and realizes that
everything she's worked for is
about to be lost, and we see the determination that has carried her for years begin to melt away.)
Just
about everything in writer - director Boaz Yakin's
film rings false, starting with the improbably cast Zellweger, who does an adequate enough acting job but simply
looks too WASPy for the role.
Movie
looks great and entertaining, stop nit picking
everything about every
film.
In the first of our features
looking back at the best acting on
film in 2017, we celebrate creative line deliveries that tell you
everything you need to know
about a character, render potential throwaway lines quotable, and leave you thinking
about their precise intonation days later.