Sentences with phrase «aleck film»
Rodriguez has the chops of a smart - aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid, and they come together to remake the world in the image of its young audience.
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This winner of the audience award for best narrative film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival is the kind of whimsically smart - aleck British film that goes down well on this side of the Atlantic.
Writer / director Danny Strong (co-creator of «Empire,» screenwriter of the «Mockingjay» films and actor in «Gilmore Girls» and «Buffy») introduces us to Salinger before all of that happened, young, ambitious, and like Catcher in the Rye «s Holden Caulfield, a smart aleck who has left or been asked to leave a number of top schools.
This year, that movie was Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds - starring film about the X-Men-adjacent, smart - aleck, foul - mouthed superhero whose film was a defiant middle finger to the era of the superhero movie.
Reitman was Oscar - nominated for directing two of his first three films (Juno and Up in the Air), a nearly unheard - of achievement, and largely skated by any charge of being «overrated» (Juno took some flak for its smart - aleck dialogue, but that fell at the feet of screenwriter Diablo Cody).