Sentences with phrase «aimless films»

Honestly this has got to be one of the most pointless and aimless films I've seen in a while.

This aimless film leaves me hoping his ghosts have finally been exorcised.

Not exact matches

The prologue itself isn't terrible; but once it's over, we're left with an aimless sad piece of film.

Sure, the film is generally entertaining, or at least not as dry as it could have been, but there are still those fair deal of slow spells that throw you off and give you time to think about how the film is, well, kind of aimless.

The film might feel aimless in spots, but as more layers of the narrative are peeled off, you understand just exactly how things came to be and how Wyeth, John and Dee might want revenge for what was done to their parents.

Such atmospheric stiffness joins with uneven structural pacing until the final product feels utterly aimless, and such an unfortunate formula does heavy damage to a film that arguably barely comes up with enough engaging aspects to transcend mediocrity.

The film features even more aimless scenes of Frida and Anna frolicking around the countryside.

But its uninspiring, aimless plot is the film's downfall, in what, mid-way through, turns into an unintentional parody of TV's superior supernatural nail - biter «Les Revenants» (The Returned).

It's a film about contradictions: Few movies have so insistently probed the paradoxes of class among aimless NYC twentysomethings.

Like most of the film, these scenes are vividly rendered but increasingly repetitive and aimless.

While that film felt like a seamless fusion of the middle - aged malaise seen in Greenberg with the youthful energy and aimless freedom of Frances Ha, his newest feature, Mistress America, is very much back in the realm of the latter.

From a screenwriting perspective, the film spends perhaps a bit too much time on Brooklynn's aimless frivolities.

As haunted and aimless as «Claire de Lune» (played at the picture's closing recital), Tokyo Sonata is Kurosawa allowed at last to make a horror film that reveals that, for him, true horror is being content to accept salvation in the life of a sheep.

The characters and their journey are aimless, drifting spirits but the film itself never feels lost or lacking in control.

Things of the Aimless Wanderer is a film about the sensitive topic of relations between «locals» and Westerners, about paranoia, mistrust, and misunderstandings.

Many scenes meander with a highly improvised, aimless approach, while Swanberg keeps the film bathed in the gritty look of persistent realism.

It is tempting to see the title characters in Husbands (1970) as older versions of the trio in John Cassavetes» breakthrough film, Shadows (1959)-- aimless New Yorkers indulging in noisy horseplay,...

Madame Courage (Algeria) AND Things of the Aimless Wanderer (Rwanda) TIE Whether featuring long shots and minimal dialogue (Wanderer) or a story that feels woefully incomplete (Courage), both films stood out as examples of how bad film execution.

SUMMARY OF THOUGHTS: This is 40 features good acting and a few hilarious moments, but the film is crippled by aimless moments and a long running time.

A magnetic performance and strong thematic core help this film overcome a somewhat aimless approach.

Sometimes the film seems a bit aimless, but there's always an unexpected moment or a great deadpan punchline ahead.

If the lazy bunch of aimless losers depicted in the film were to write a screenplay, the one used for Accepted would probably closely resemble it.

It's not until Jimmy and Judy begin to get to know one another (and eventually start to fall in love) that the film starts to become more than just an aimless exercise in audaciousness, as the palpable chemistry between the two stars infuses the narrative with an authenticity and sweetness that becomes progressively difficult to resist.

Before winning hearts and Oscar nominations with her coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig starred in the perfect companion film, about an aimless 27 - year - old who hops from New York City to her hometown of Sacramento to Paris to Poughkeepsie and eventually back to New York in hopes of stumbling into the perfect job, the perfect relationship, and the perfect life.

Despite the vérite influencé, this is a film that presents life spinning forward with all the aimless velocity of a dream.

As always with Hong's films, Oki's Movie goes through stretches where it seems aimless and self - indulgent, followed by stretches where it's sharp, funny, and poetic.

At the very least, she gives our aimless hero a perfect excuse not to go back home and confront the crater where his life used to be (the film amusingly casts New York as the city where people go to face their demons, and L.A. as the one where they go to run away from them).

Though its premise is certainly ripe for comedy, the film is so aimless and poorly executed that it never really finds its voice, let alone one that's even remotely funny.

As we follow her subsequent aimless drifting through this seaside city, the notion of truth becomes a primary concern for the film, which commits steadfastly to understated realism.

Mumblecore was yet another classification that was used far more often as an epithet than as a self - descriptor, but it's still a handy way of categorizing those low - key, deliberately kind of aimless, sometimes indifferently filmed movies of the early Duplass brothers» era, producing filmmakers like Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies; Happy Christmas), Lynn Shelton (Your Sister's Sister), Adam Wingard (You're Next), Andrew Bujalski (Results), and Lena Dunham (you know who Lena Dunham is).

After arresting work as an aimless skinhead in Mike Leigh's Meantime, he delivered two of the most humane, indelible performances of that decade, both as doomed real - life figures: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious in Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, one of the most searching films in all of British cinema, and the impish playwright Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (directed by Frears and written by Alan Bennett).

The script has taken rather a trim in comparison, this film concentrating on machismo and gunplay rather than the more artful and character driven original; the result is that Eastwood's gunslinger comes across as more of a cynical operator than Mifune's aimless but moralistic samurai, and the build up has a brisk, almost rushed feel about it.

Like Lean on Pete, Arnold's film follows a rootless teenager in search of some form of familial belonging — in her case, with a gang of likewise aimless youths hawking magazine subscriptions across the midwest — but is supersized and expressively unruly where Haigh's is contained and watchful.

The Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Eliza Hittman for her film Beach Rats — An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self - identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.

Stop to study Rainbow (1988), Xu Zhen's photograph of a torso, and you'll flinch at the clang that accompanies it; Yang Fudong's film of a disaffected citizen's aimless wander through the «estranged paradise» of Hangzhou stifles all hope, and Yang Jiechang's instructions above an urn (Testament, 1989 - 1991)-- One Day I Die An Unnatural Death Then One Should Feed Me to a Tiger and Keep its Excrements — veers to the morbid.