Sentences with phrase «acclaimed dramas like»
The streaming service's TV additions are joined by a number of compelling films, including critically acclaimed dramas like The Florida Project, Greek myth - inspired action flick Troy, and Mel Brooks» indelible Star Wars parody, Spaceballs.
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Those sorts of deeply emotional themes have shown up in Selma and DuVernay's acclaimed television series Queen Sugar, a stirring family drama that unflinchingly tackles topics like race, activism and greed.
Following up on his acclaimed debut The Myth of Fingerprints, Bart Freundlich spins this drama that poses the question «what would it be like to run away from your life?»
From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.
sidebar shoutouts to acclaimed documentary Call Me Kuchu, cranky moviegoers and ushers, Disney's Frozen, John Cassavettes Faces, the Israeli drama Late Marriage, the Ridley Scott classic Thelma & Louise, Sarah Paulson & Queen Latifah, and movie characters we'd like to drop back in on.
Scoot McNairy — whose recent credits include critically acclaimed drama series like Godless, Halt And Catch Fire, and Fargo — is about to add another prestige cable project to his resume.
Though the backlash lasted for a while, Daniels has gone on to do critically - acclaimed work in movies like The Squid and the Whale and his Emmy - winning turn in Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama The Newsroom.
If you've never seen any of Haynes's films before, you're missing out, especially if you like twentieth century American history and Critically Acclaimed Dramas With Strong Female Leads, as Netflix might phrase it.
Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).
2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.
These and other critically acclaimed indie dramas like «Call Me by Your Name» and «The Florida Project,» not the massive machinery of a «Darkest Hour» or a «Dunkirk,» are the big men on campus.
A teaser trailer has arrived online for the second season of the critically - acclaimed Arctic drama series Fortitude; watch it below after the official synopsis... Fortitude is a place like nowhere else.