Sentences with phrase «middling films such»

Middling films such as «The Penguins of Madagascar» and «Over the Hedge» would end up with more or the same number of nominations as other animated films that were on a slew of year - end top 10 lists (don't get us started on the year «Fantastic Mr. Fox's» only earned three nominations).

Not exact matches

I have never felt like I was in the middle of such a violent conflict before and this film just made me plunge right in the eye of the storm.

Later alternating between television and film with features such as Trapped and roles on such high - profile series as Spin City and Malcolm in the Middle, her part opposite Brittany Murphy in the 2003 comedy Uptown Girls found the precocious youngster playing well off of her older co-star.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

MediaMikes: Rose Leslie specifically has to undergo such a huge change in the middle of the film, did you discuss with her specifics about how her character is, I'll say, pre - and post-op?

Unlike the small museum from the first film, the Smithsonian would surely be overrun with people, even in the middle of the night, so there's really no explanation as to why Larry seems to be the only one trying to keep the peace for such a major institution full of priceless art and historical artifacts.

Ignoring the picture's preposterous premise that an expert witness for the prosecution would ever exhibit such sensitivity towards a defendant in a criminal case, the film nonetheless works because of the way in which two females manage to mind - meld and make peace on a middle ground.

is not the kind of major American film one expects to find in the middle of the annual blockbuster season, but in a summer as starved of imagination, artistry and humanity as 2009 has been so far, thank God for such anomalies.

Meanwhile, Houston - born, Austin - based Richard Linklater, known for such films as «Boyhood» and «Dazed and Confused,» showed he can tell the stories of middle - aged men in crisis in «Last Flag Flying.»

The first half of the film is a well - structured inter-cutting of Valerie Wilson's intelligence work in the Middle East with the Washington - based analysis and application of such intelligence.

There's a scene buried in the middle of the picture between Noah and Lucius that is filmed in such a way that it breaks my heart that Shyamalan has let his pride get in the way of his talent.

Jackson is, in some sense, Tolkein's cinematic equivalent as a world - building, and as such is the perfect pick for the job of putting Middle Earth on film.

Best Actress: Annette Bening — Kids Are All Right — stern, intelligent yet moving and likeable — it takes a real pro to accomplish that with such style and verve Nicole Kidman — Rabbit Hole — heartbreaking but resilient — a perfect balance between broken and fixed — it is so joyful to watch a character so succinctly communicated Lesley Manville — Another Year — heartbreaking with closeup after closeup of vulnerability and grasping hope — truly a fragile and pulsating performance Julianne Moore — Kids Are All Right — courageous and oh so human — sexy and vulnerable in an earthy way — her struggles with herself are the heart of the movie and she carries it magnificently and warmly Natalie Portman — Black Swan — the tour de force this year — the crazy, emotionally volatile core of a crazy, emotionally volatile film — some wonder if it might be «easer» to play such big emotions but the incredibly thin wire she has to traverse in such an extreme environment is daunting and she makes it work and gives us believability and solicits true sympathy in the middle of a fright fest — a truly accomplished achievement

When you have a film with such terrific actors like Al Pacino (The Recruit) and Christopher Walken (Kangaroo Jack), and such easy - to - watch personalities like Affleck and J.Lo, the horrendously misguided dialogue and lack of vision to the storytelling only become more pronounced, akin to performing the Macarena in the middle of a ballet, or having the diva of an opera perform a beatbox in the middle of her aria.

Such is the density of its different levels that repeat viewings will be amply rewarded — although cinemagoers will be unlikely to maintain Laing's middle position on the film's many polarising provocations.

Perhaps in the world of cartoons, such inanities would seem commonplace, but smack - dab in the middle of a family film, there is just an embarrassing quality to them that doesn't allow us to go with the natural flow of things.

It's a film that cuts both ways, with such gags as a character named Thick Kevin (Brooke), who always interjects the daftest comments in the middle of conversations, can either be seen as cheeky and hilarious, or half - hearted attempts to interject comedy without regard for the integrity of the characters or their stories.

With his creative process on such a regular and relatively demanding schedule, every one of Allen's new films seems to aim for and land in some kind of middle ground.

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.

A projectionist friend of mine was running Dune many years ago, and he'd miscued the middle of the film such that it changed over to the other projector one reel too early, cutting out 20 minutes of the film.

Now, in his belated second film, The Visitor, McCarthy (who during these past four years has acted in such notable mainstream movies as Flags of Our Fathers, Syriana and Good Night and Good Luck) brings together the private and public worlds in the story of the middle - aged New England economics professor Walter Vale.

The film drags a bit in the middle, but Levine's script is bursting with such wry, dark humor that it just barely tips the scales in its favor.

Stuck in the middle of the film is a flight to a tropical island (typical of the Flynn pics, if not the pivotal denouement in MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty) and the hero's involvement with a local girl (a leftover from Polynesian epics such as Hurricane, Bird of Paradise, and prior Dorothy Lamour romances like Aloma of the South Seas)-- surgical additions that may have been present in the original novel, but feel tacked on in a film that runs at a fast globe - trotting pace in its 98 min.

One of the most exclusive and expensive cars ever to be made with additional options such as embeddable diamonds, emeralds, and sapphires being available, the Lykan Hypersport is also the first supercar to be produced in the Middle East and is the star of a breathtaking set - piece in the film Furious 7.

Installed in the middle of the Yokohama Museum of Art, Michael Landy's massive Art Bin (2014) was the exhibition centerpiece — matched in scale and exuberance by installations such as Miwa Yanagi's mobile stage truck, which provided a site for gravity - defying pole dancing performances, and Shinro Ohtake's wheeled shed assembled from scrap materials and photographs — but many of the other works were distinguished by intimate reserve, apparent, for example, in René Magritte's small, black - and - white photographs from the portfolio «The Fidelity of Images» (1935), and Melvin Moti's film No Show (2004), depicting an empty Hermitage Museum through a single image accompanied by a voice track.

Kleyn studied architecture at UBC in the early 1970s and apprenticed in Rome, working in architecture, film and theater, while doing projects with international agencies such as the UN Environmental Program in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.