Sentences with phrase «absurd humor»

Fortunately, a strain of absurd humor also runs through much performance - oriented work.

He finds a tricky balance of absurd humor and abiding truth in telling what is clearly a very personal story.

In Terry Gilliam's The Zero Theorem, the old master of visual overload and absurd humor heads back to his «Brazilian» roots.

From Uterus Man to LuYang Delusional Mandala, to her latest work Electromagnetic Brainology, Lu Yang's refreshing sense of absurd humor challenges accepted notions of contemporary art.

For over sixty years MAD has been introducing some of the most outrageous draftsmen to generations of young people hungry for absurd humor, extraordinary art and a poke in the eye of complacency.

Zoolander 2 isn't secretly brilliant like its predecessor, nor does it have the kind of absurd humor it takes time to unpack.

Critic Consensus: It may lack the absurd humor that underlined the original, but the new - look Evil Dead compensates with brutal terror, gory scares, and gleefully bloody violence.

Takes a clichéd - seeming premise and carefully proceeds to turn it on its head through logic, absurd humor and the consumption of vast quantities of cigarettes.

The rest of the players should approach with caution and open mind: its absurd humor and the way it handles the female roles may scare your away.

Boiled down into concrete words, this sounds corny, but in execution on screen it's all rather affecting, with Stoltz's understated but sure direction eliciting vivid, multi-dimensional, and highly appealing turns by Holt and Gisondo, who are equally adept at selling both the absurd humor of August's characters and the genuine, relatable emotions that drive their behaviors and goals.

Fortunately, if latest release Runner3 is any indication, the studio's curious blend of rhythmic platforming and absurd humor is as endearing now as it ever has been before.

It had the badass balletic action but really embraced the absurd humor that Hong Kong movies served up along with it.

One of the things I liked about Dead Snow was the absurd humor of the graphic violence in it.

Szifron's wild anthology film consists of six short tales, each with the same theme of revenge along with plenty of absurd humor.

This framing device may seem facile at first, but it provides «Nymphomaniac: Volume I» with both perspective and a hugely enjoyable streak of absurd humor.

Coming after a pair of uneven broad comedies, The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty, the stark, stripped down, formally - controlled aesthetic of No Country, appeared to be a departure even from films like Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, and The Man Who Wasn't There, which were similarly grim and violent, but still contained their signature moments of absurd humor, references to older movies, and self - conscious pastiche of classic Hollywood genres.

There are historical references, allusions to current events and surprising moments of absurd humor that make it seem as though screenwriters Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick and Ryan Reynolds were riffing off of each other.

The film continues the unique brand of absurd humor, the mentality of a kid having playtime with his or her favorite toys, and pristinely faux - rudimentary design and animation — a combination that made The LEGO Movie such a jolt of pure, imaginative joy.

Human Nature feels like it could have gone somewhere (and, at moments, there is a definite sense that certain scenes came from the script for a good movie), but the final draft lacks much of the commentary and all of the absurd humor found in Being John Malkovich.

6:45 pm — IFC — Thank You for Smoking Jason Reitman's breakout film was also one of my favorites of 2005 — sure, it's a bit slight and isn't perfect, but its story of a hotshot PR guy working for cigarette companies struck just the right note of cynical and absurd humor.

It would be unfair to you, and it would definitely be unfair to the movie, which — if the car is any indication — understands the basic concept of absurd humor but has difficulty putting concept into practice.

Reviewers have praised its stellar performances and tight direction, praise that is deserved, but I'd like to highlight what I think makes director Dan Trachtenberg's film unique: A combination of suspense so elemental that most of the movie could easily be performed onstage with the kind of absurd humor you might expect to see on FX or Comedy Central.

It's an old - fashioned adventure story with a tinge of melancholy and just the right dash of absurd humor, with a handful of great movie star performances, dialogue that crackles, and a breakout starring role for young Hailee Steinfeld as the indomitable teenaged Mattie Ross.

Plainspoken but persistent in its conception of duty and heroics, with notes of poignancy and absurd humor, it's one of Eastwood's most openly affectionate works (the rapport between stars Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart is terrific) and the best film he's made in a long time.

Where Charles Bernstein's classic, original score for «A Nightmare on Elm Street» is back for another lullaby here, the composer's «Deadly Friend» hits CD to re-animates a robot - possessed girl next door with equal components creepiness and absurd humor, with the end title droid chants of «Bee Bee, Bee Bee» certainly one of the nuttiest vocal pieces heard that decade.

I'm having a blast with the action and the absurd humor in these books.

In this powerful, accomplished debut, Rabb creates a remarkable character in Mia, leavening her heartbreak with surprising humor and a sense of the absurd

His style is tough to describe, with sentences tight and loose in all the right places, characters who are simultaneously sympathetic and repulsive, and a tone born of a mixture of irony, ultra realism and absurd humor.

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The Game of International Diplomacy is a board game of strategy, diplomacy, and absurd humor.

Let the dramatic story and absurd humor of the series unfold like an interactive foreign film experience.