Sentences with phrase «everything about the film works»

Everything about the film works together to create one of the best films of the past few years.

Not exact matches

Personally, this film would have worked as great action - packed short film that stuffed everything into about 20 minutes.

The unit's work was top secret, its members» experiences, recounted in this film, fascinating above all for what they tell about the determined inventiveness, the all - out ambition to try everything, characteristic of that war effort.

Ridley Scott «s 2012 prequel remains divisive and the public details about the new film paint the picture of a production that keeps everything that worked in that first film while quietly throwing away everything that did not.

Everything about Neighbors 2 feels like you saw it already, because you did, but the reason the first film was so well - received is because the gags really worked, and so seeing them again with very slight variations is still pretty amusing a lot of the time.

He talks about why the movie took years to make, his decision to only screen on 35 mm, working with John Hawkes, and everything else you need to know about one of the most unique film releases of the year.

I don't pretend to understand everything about «Hidden Figures», about three brilliant women who worked for NASA in the early 1960's, but instead of being put off, I found myself intrigued, even wanting to know more about the work they did following the events of this film.

Even setting aside my opinion that it's Anderson's coldest and least funny work to date, the film defies everything we know about commercial filmmaking, using an eclectic cast light on star power, an eccentric title, a period setting, international flavor, an R rating, and a versatile narrative that seems secondary to production design.

Unfortunately things haven't worked out, with his music for the disastrous Battlefield Earth being every bit as bad as everything else about the film and his career seemingly never really recovering.

While this works for about 85 % off the film, there is a courtroom scene about 70 minutes in that changed everything for me.

The studio, though, is reportedly hoping Chase's film will headline its 2012 campaign, with specific mention from Deadline for James Gandolfini, reuniting here with his «Sopranos» helmer as «a post-war, post-Depression Era parent who has worked hard to give his son everything he didn't have but now feels some jealousy about the free - wheeling life the boy gets to experience.»

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.

At first glance everything about this film spells Oscar consideration (Brolin was nominated for his work on Milk, Reitman is a four - time nominee and Winslet is of course a winner and six - time nominee) and yet no nods were forthcoming this year and, frankly, it's not hard to see why.

(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.)

Okayafrica recently caught up with artist Wangechi Mutu for a private tour of A Fantastic Journey — her ongoing exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum — and a chat about the collected body of work, which includes Mutu's animated short film The End Of Eating Everything starring Santigold.

Even by the standards of our age of appropriation, when works of art cannibalise each other as a matter of course, everything about this film feels dated and second hand.