Sentences with phrase «acting than the genre»

Haysbert, sporting a bald head and a thick salt and pepper beard, is especially good, doing more acting than the genre fare for which he may be best known.

Not exact matches

The third act twist is what's made this one's inflated reputation, but it's what makes this more risible than a mere genre entry.

Yet Punch - Drunk Love is more than an exercise in genre explosion: it is an exploration of the actual euphoria of new love, perhaps even first love, in all its uncontainable passion and rash acts.

The acting is also better than most entries in the genre; in addition to solid performances from its two leads, Ma Dong - Seok absolutely steals the show as the badass father - to - be.

The real laugh is that the film's ostensible moral is to act your age while virtually every joke is stolen from a genre intended for stars and audiences ten - plus years younger than anyone involved, meaning all the sexual insecurity and juvenilia is infected with considerably more than the usual touch of the pathetic.

Final Verdict: Nowhere near as impressive as it is made out to be, but Superbad is still a well - acted teen comedy with a lot more heart than any other contender in the genre.

Y Tu Mama Tambien is a nicely acted and directed coming - of - age road trip that does offer something more than the usual, yet is trapped by the conventions of its own genre.

Few cinematic categories have proven more vexing in recent years than the action - comedy: as movies in the genre accelerate into their final acts, the former component consistently threatens to overwhelm the latter.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

FMV games seemed to be the future of gaming at one point in the «90s, but the genre all but died after a number of poorly acted and executed games reduced the genre to little more than a punchline.

With his first film, The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer — a US film - maker who has spent many years in Indonesia — broke open the documentary genre, fusing it with something much richer and more disturbing than the word «nonfiction» can summon, by stepping inside the psyches of the mass murderers who assisted President Suharto's dictatorship from 1968 to 1998.

However, if it is not your usual genre of choice then there is nothing to make it stand out as anything other than a well - acted, well - made movie.

T - G: Perhaps more than most genres, racing games must nail the fundamentals, with control that balances accessibility and finesse, and AI that doesn't seem to rubber - band or act too robotically.

The game's absolutely horrible voice acting, easily some of the worst in the genre, compounds the problem, as every line of dialogue is somehow mangled, whether by deadpan voice acting, incorrect inflections that give phrases different meanings than intended, or overemphasis of every single syllable.