Sentences with phrase «when audiences and critics»

It's a quality not felt in this series since 1976 when audiences and critics alike fell in love with the Rocky character the first time.

When audiences and critics use such diverse words to describe one man's work, you know they are talking about an actor who completely transforms himself into whatever character he is called upon to play.

Not exact matches

But when people did actually see it, the movie was greeted with generally positive reviews — the film scored 77 % among «Top Critics» on Rotten Tomatoes — and a strong audience reaction.

Something important indeed has happened in American theater when an eloquent play with religious implications commands the attention of Broadway audiences and critics as The Elephant Man has done.

I was very aware when I was writing it that the final product would not be considered by critics and audiences to be part of the mainstream of what they consider «contemporary serious music.»

Most critics found the film funny and entertaining when it screened at Toronto last fall, and audiences will finally get to see it on June 7 (and in even more theaters on June 21).

When visionary director Luc Besson released his weird, imaginative sci - fi flick The Fifth Element in 1997, audiences didn't quite know what to think of it, and thus, it was taken to town by critics.

Experience the film that critics and audiences are raving about when The Cabin In The Woods arrives on Blu - ray Disc (plus Digital Copy), DVD (plus Digital Copy) and On Demand and Pay - Per - View September 18 from Lionsgate.

Critics and audiences were raving about director David O. Russell's previous movies when they opened a few years ago.

Critics are sometimes required to see comedies at such screenings because we can appreciate them better when we see them with a general audience, and to be sure, I learn a lot that way.

Even Amazon, Netflix, and A24 — recent history's most aggressive acquirers — arrived at Sundance this year with finished products, launching films to critics and select audiences with the hope that this will buoy the movies» performances when they are unveiled in theaters, and on the companies» services, later in the year.

She first gained the attention of critics and audiences when she played the love interest of Daniel Craig's character in Matthew Vaughn's Layer Cake, earning an Empire Award ® nomination for Best Newcomer.

The good old days when audiences, critics and filmmakers were divided by spirited debates and stood their ground openly attacking each other seem to be confined to a bygone era of economic prosperity.

Critic Cole Smithey pinpointed this crisis when he wrote of Logan: «If indoctrinating child audiences into accepting, and enjoying, brutal deadly violence was the intent of the filmmaker, s... then their mission is accomplished.»

That moment right on the cusp of major precursor announcements when critics and audiences begin to join a conversation that's been talked in circles by us pundits for a few months.

It is 10 years since Paul Thomas Anderson first left audiences and critics dumbstruck and confounded with his breakthrough film Boogie Nights, when he was just 27.

They're also regional and expensive, and when my fellow critics and I go to festivals and see great movies, we hope they'll eventually reach the wide audience that couldn't attend.

But when the movie started screening outside the festival circuit weeks later, what had looked like consensus between both audiences and critics began to crumble.

That being said, The Last Jedi seemed to be an anomaly when it comes to Rotten Tomatoes, with the rest of the franchise's movies normally coming to a consensus among audiences and critics.

Two examples of festival success won't determine all that much in the scheme of things, but it does show that audiences and critics appreciate and applaud female narrative filmmakers, or at least when they follow a certain formula.

But between a mix of solid reviews from critics and a masterfully executed marketing campaign prior to its debut, Black Panther managed to capitalize on a moment when audiences are yearning for more diversity in mainstream movies.

When the film screened at the Toronto Film Festival, critics and the audience loved it so...

I look forward to the day when we get to see Bond just go on an assignment that only exists for one film rather than make every movie a sequel to the previous installment to appease grumpy critics and audiences who never liked the first 50 years of the franchise in the first place.

Of course, De Palma has made a number of films that were not particularly well - received when they first came out, only to grow in stature with critics and audiences over the years — «Blow Out» (1981) and «Scarface» (1983) being perhaps the best - known examples of such reevaluations.

When «Citizen Kane» was first released in theatres in 1941, audiences did not warm to it, and despite winning the New York Film Critics Circle -LSB-...]

When «The Wizard of Oz» was released in 1939, neither audiences or critics were particularly fond of the film and it died a rather quick death at the box office.

Early this year, Kenneth Branagh succeeded — with critics and audiences — when he brought Cinderella back to the big screen but late this summer, The Fantastic Four reboot completely fell apart.

When we pillory critics for saying hard but true things; when our leaders who've championed inclusiveness issue (and defend) bigoted remarks; when we plod from one spiteful spat to the next, played out (performed, really) in online forums and social media with all the requisite snark and ad hominem attacks, it's worth asking what kind of audience areWhen we pillory critics for saying hard but true things; when our leaders who've championed inclusiveness issue (and defend) bigoted remarks; when we plod from one spiteful spat to the next, played out (performed, really) in online forums and social media with all the requisite snark and ad hominem attacks, it's worth asking what kind of audience arewhen our leaders who've championed inclusiveness issue (and defend) bigoted remarks; when we plod from one spiteful spat to the next, played out (performed, really) in online forums and social media with all the requisite snark and ad hominem attacks, it's worth asking what kind of audience arewhen we plod from one spiteful spat to the next, played out (performed, really) in online forums and social media with all the requisite snark and ad hominem attacks, it's worth asking what kind of audience are we?

Another Ubisoft game that wowed critics and audiences when first showed off but come the release all hell broke loose.

Baselitz's meteoric career took off in the mid-1960s, when he painted pictures that scandalized critics and audiences and published hallucinatory «Pandemonic Manifestos.»

But when Byron Kim, who is a conceptual artist and critic based in New York, visited Bowdoin recently, he asked the audience to participate in his creative process instead of just sitting by and passively listening.

When Byron Kim, who is a conceptual artist and critic based in New York, visited Bowdoin recently, he asked the audience to participate in his creative process instead of just sitting by and passively listening.

When Logan was originally released in theaters this March, my colleague Kwame Opam wrote about what Hugh Jackman's departure meant not just for X-Men but for superhero movies as a genre: «Superhero movies aren't going anywhere, but they need to evolve to hold the interest of critics and audiences.