Other polarizing films included Darling, Bone Tomahawk, Follow and Demon (which won best horror feature at the festival to many people's surprise
Not exact matches
Polarizing film is like a screen of parallel bars that the rope passes through: it lets through waves
polarized parallel to it unhindered, blocks perpendicular ones completely and allows waves on
other angles to get through with reduced amplitude.
Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of
films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the
polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among
other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.
It quickly became a
polarizing film for
film critics, many embracing the Red Shoes meets Repulsion psychological portrait of neurosis and obsession in a meek, repressed young woman (Natalie Portman) who still has little girl prima ballerina dreams,
others critical of the melodrama, hysteria and blunt metaphors («high - grade hokum,» as one critic called it).
If it can't get a substantial number of votes in the first round of counting, ballots from eliminated nominees will be redistributed and we suspect most will go to
other less
polarizing films.
Though it received a fairly solid 68 percent on — please stop reading here if you're Martin Scorsese — Rotten Tomatoes, it was deeply
polarizing, throttled by some critics as «the worst
film of the century,» and hailed by
others as a wholly unique, engaging piece of art.