Sentences with phrase «about polarizing films»

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On Twitter, the most polarizing thing about Three Billboards is how the film handles his racist - cop character, but do Oscars voters agree?

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.

itself, Kameron, you wrote that it was «the kind of movie that makes me want to avoid the internet for a century,» which makes me curious about how you and the rest of the gang have approached writing about tricky films in a moment where everything feels polarized between «this movie will save mankind!»

We talked about what it was like to get the offer to direct Star Wars, how he arrived at some of the themes of the film, and how he's dealing with the polarized reaction from fans.

At moments, it feels like Tarantino is really trying to say something about the bizarre, angry jigsaw of people who help make this country the polarized mess it remains today, but once the film shifts into an expected cacophony of violence, whatever that might be slips through his gore - stained fingers.

Max Landis is a fairly polarizing figure in the film industry, partly because he's the son of John Landis and will continue to get opportunities even when his projects flop and partly because he tends to have awful opinions about Star Wars characters, but now he may have finally landed a film that will prove once and...

In the recently completed Sleeping Beauty, her most controversial film to date (which polarized audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival), her character works in a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the better of her.

Then there are two video artists, Price and Fowler, who have contributed, respectively, a short film dealing with a deadly 1979 fire at a Woolworth store (mixed in with footage of the Shangri Las) and a feature - length film about the polarizing Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing.