The less we say about the film, the better but The Invitation will leave audiences with much to chew on.
Not exact matches
I literally couldn't care
less about any of them and the only reason I made it to the end of the
film is because the DVD cover lied,
saying it was half an hour shorter than it was.
There have been quite a few let down moments in the previous 7
films & the
less said about X-men Origins - Wolverine, the better, but this was hands down my favourite in the series.
For a
film that explicitly tells you it's
about the importance of women in the workplace (when Catrin's apartment building is destroyed by a German bomb, she more or
less turns to the camera to
say, «If I wasn't at work, I would have been killed!»)
It is very hard to do a good heist
film, especially one that is smart and memorable, so the
less I
say about Christian Gudegast's Den Of Thieves (2017), Unrated or otherwise, the better.
That same day, Netflix is also getting the classic
film Breakfast at Tiffany's (though the
less said about the regrettable Mickey Rooney role, the better).
I seldom worry
about spoilers, but the last 45 minutes contains four setpieces that take a
film that is already great to a higher (
say, The Rules of the Game) level, and the
less you know
about them in advance the better.
Another reader was even
less impressed with the
film and had this to
say about the movie.
Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n
Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos —
about the same number as the previous
film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no
less onanistic.
Hill of Freedom, like most Hong
films, is
about the frustrated past and potential lovers
saying more than they mean to and
less than they want while drunk.
The
less that is
said about Roland Emmerich's disaster of a disaster
film the better, but the entire genre of giant monster movies in the tradition of Godzilla from areas beyond Japan is hit or miss at best.
Indeed, without giving away where the movie heads after that, it's safe to
say that it starts to reveal itself
less as a story
about righting a wrong and more
about reconciliation — one that still blends McDonagh's signature dark humor and sudden swerves into laughs into gasps, yet also taps into an emotional depth that closer to his theater projects than his
film work.
There's
less to
say about the two Asian
films I've seen over the past 24 hours, unfortunately.
I
said it
about both LONE RANGER and PACIFIC RIM - once the greenlight was made, and the money spent, as a viewer I couldn't care
less about their grosses while enjoying the
film.
I like Suffragette just fine but in no way does its topic (women's voting rights) make it a better
film about women than
say Carol or Brooklyn or even
less high profile pictures like Grandma or I'll See You In My Dreams or Mustang you know?
But because the
less you know
about this
film the more fascinating it is, I won't cover those here except to
say: Nicely done!
And for every Superbad, there are four or five
lesser films like Project X. And sure, occasionally you'll get a high school movie that actually has something to
say about the academic and societal pressures of being a student (Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow is a great example), but even that focused primarily on male characters.
So you were talking
about this kind of karmic circle where it comes back around — where now «Hoop Dreams,» a
film Ebert helped make successful, he was someone that shined a light on these
less - well - known
films that had weaker marketing budgets or so forth, drew people's attention to Errol Morris, who you saw on screen, really helped launch the careers of some of these people by shining that light on them... and you were
saying how from your experience as a critic and all that, you
say in your own words, you yourself feel the same desire, that your job is to cast that light.
On its surface, Refn's
film is a horrific allegory
about a young, beautiful model who's harassed by her marginally older, surgically enhanced, and
less in - demand rivals, whose gnawing jealousy eventually drives them to — well, let's just
say nothing good.
You'll recall, Uma, who's worked on several Harvey Weinstein
films, when asked recently
about Hollywood's predation epidemic, promised that she would have something to
say about the situation eventually, when she's
less angry.
As Brian Tallerico
said in his review of the
film, «there's something invigorating
about seeing a movie that reminds me of the political thrillers of the «70s and «80s, the kind of
film we see
less and
less of at the multiplex.»
Say what you will
about Roland Emmerich's ludicrous piece of revisionist history, because while the conspiracy theory at the center of his
film may be a load of bullshit, it doesn't make «Anonymous» any
less entertaining.
With spotty acting, superficial developments, and rules that seem to be made up as the
film moves along, Dead Silence is strictly only of interest to audiences who are all
about scary images set to ominous music, caring far
less about a good storyline to follow or characters who do or
say things that might be plausible to anyone who experiences them in real life.
Besides movies
about comedy and / or Gillian Jacobs, it's hard to
say what makes a «Tribeca»
film, at least on the fiction side; the festival has much
less of an identity than,
say, Sundance or NYFF.
With that being
said, De Niro in these roles is always worth giving a chance and seeing these
less flashy (though all talented as heck) it could be a refreshing
film amidst all the «Oscar - bait»
films people are so polar
about.
The fact A Most Violent Year can have those timely connections now is why
saying less and showing more
about «what your movie means» can be so valuable for a
film of this kind.
Sure, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman starred alongside one another during the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but the
less we
say about that particular
film, the better.
«For me, it's
less of a political statement
about global warming, and more just, there's got to be a nicer, cleaner way to do this,»
said film director and writer Ali Selim.