Sentences with phrase «bereft of»

Outside of Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson «s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which shocked the entire industry by legging it to $ 941 million worldwide, and Spider - Man, the studio is virtually bereft of valuable IP (check back on this after Chirs Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson's Men in Black reboot).
Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case, Food Beware comes to DVD presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, sadly bereft of supplemental bonus material.
Bereft of better scripts, the cast goes through the motions, half - hearted and cheerfully dazed.
This question is not really within the appropriate scope of a review, yet «Epic Movie» is so bereft of anything resembling wit or inspiration, that the mind immediately goes to questions of motive — as though it were a crime.
That's all well and good, and while most kids will invariably watch anything as long as it involves bright colors and loud noises, it will be hard for anyone else to warm to a movie so bereft of humor or excitement.
It is a film full of moments of greatness, and is a rather subdued effort considering it is from the director of City of God, yet not subdued enough to really soak up the existential subtleties bereft of the subject matter.
The town is entirely bereft of children — that is, except for the spectres that appear in flashes to an increasingly wigged - out Jennifer.
But you also start to realize that it will soon be over and you'll have to go back to your day bereft of that wit, imagery and storytelling, essentially nursing an acute case of Wes Anderson wistfulness.
With The Crown's John Lithgow fresh in the mind and Gary Oldman's Darkest Hour due later this year, our screens are hardly bereft of Winston Churchills at the moment.
The X-Men: The Last Stand is surprisingly bereft of extras.
(The movie is sadly bereft of any alternative material.)
You Were Never Really Here is adapted from a Jonathan Ames novella by the Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, and like her other work it is powerfully imagistic and nearly bereft of dialogue or a conventional plot.
Del Toro is reflecting on how emotions are old fashioned and anew, as though he feels contemporary America is bereft of romance as marginalised people are sidelined.
While the chat was relatively short and bereft of anything shocking, it did reveal a couple new bits of info.
Thoroughbreds is bereft of strong parental influences, so its protagonists are left to their own devices in environments of opulence and class, and we come to them at the culmination of young lives where this has formed them into human beings who perhaps lost some of that humanity in the process of growing up.
Another tense and smart platformer that will test gamers against tricky puzzles and traps, Inside is set in a gorgeous world, again largely bereft of light.
Labor Day is almost here and we're deep enough into the calendar year that when a film critic declares a picture to be «light - years the most entertaining movie of the year,» we sit up and take notice — even if the year as a whole has been almost entirely bereft of «entertaining» movies, or, at least, the kind of movies that aspire to merely entertain and not make you dwell on tragedy («Fruitvale Station»), the emptiness of our culture («The Bling Ring») or the struggles that come with aging and evolving with someone you love («Before Midnight»).
The release here from Fabulous Films is bereft of any extras too, which is a shame, though it does boast a fine transfer that's sharp for DVD and helps shows off that style of Hartford - Davis.
Released in time to hopefully capitalize on The Hunger Games, this Blu - ray of a grossly overrated genre oddity is well - transfered but bereft of extras.
Although ersatz fairy godmothers Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), Mrs.. Who (Mindy Kaling), and Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey) are introduced organically enough, the elaborate sequences that follow are largely bereft of meaning, much less logic.
It was bereft of ideas and existed for no other reason than to bilk moviegoers out of the price of admission.The same must be said for this inevitable sequel to Kingsman.
There's hardly anything to say about this comedy entirely bereft of laughs.
The film itself looks curiously aged, bereft of the luminosity of contemporary transfers; the source print was clean yet lacking in vibrancy, though colours are bold and there is sufficient detail — Paul's green sweater boasts exquisite texture that doesn't break up.
It's an actor's dream, since the entire movie is built around his character, and he gets to play nearly every emotion, but it's bereft of excessively showy dramatics.
Jordan amply conveys that he's not comfortable with his namesake — both because he feels pathologically driven to cement his legacy for himself and because he's still coming to grips with a childhood bereft of any presence from his biological parents.
These punk - rockers are so down on their luck, so bereft of income (gee, I wonder why), that they accept a job in the wilds of Oregon, a beautiful state known as well to serve as the digs of neo-nazis and other white supremacists.
«Planetarium» is so bereft of narrative direction and bewildering in establishing dynamics between characters that it's impossible to know what is ever happening and why for most of its running time.
Sure Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith are hardly bereft of roles, but to have a cast made up entirely of actors in their twilight years is almost unheard of.
As the first direct follow - up to Joss Whedon's smash hit «The Avengers,» Black (along with co-writer Drew Pearce) elects to strip Stark down, emotionally and literally, leaving a man bereft of the suit that lends him power and authority.
Obadiah Stone's plan doesn't really add up, and the big bad showdown is bereft of the emotion and catharsis present in the rest of the film.
The nation of Oceania, to phrase it another way, is so bereft of individualism and free inquiry that life in Orwell's dystopia is ultimately not worth living.
The disappearance of T'Challa has left Wakanda bereft of each King and Black Panther.
... As Uncle Daddy, Norris is unfortunately more clownsome than fearsome, and, bereft of better writing, Nash leans too heavily on stereotype as a way to give her character a little more life.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon — high on any list of the worst blockbusters ever (move over Green Lantern, you've been bitch - slapped)-- is a movie bereft of wit, wonder, imagination, and any genuine reason for being.
Supporting characters played by Bruce McGill (The Insider, Cinderella Man) and Grant Heslov (more recently the successful co-screenwriter, with George Clooney, of Good Night, and Good Luck) are likewise woefully bereft of development or even mildly funny material.
Another issue is that the characters on board the Essex are bereft of anything that would allow us to feel for them beyond simple human survival.
Almost bereft of dialogue, the films rely on the compositions of the group Tindersticks (and various figures within it) to provide emotional cues.
The film has the benefit of hindsight — while it wishes to show a complete and full account of the facts, the fact it's bereft of an opinion on him means that it comes across as somewhat insincere.
Is the character now stuck in a dimension bereft of all he thought he knew?
It's not quite enough to rescue «Café Society» from the mediocrity that plagues most of Allen's recent films, but for a filmmaker who seems completely bereft of new ideas, it's a lot better than it should be.
Annoyingly bereft of the whiz - bang action that a movie like this desperately needs.
Bereft of all but the basic colours, every frame looks picturesque, and a lot of detail has obviously gone into each and every shot, but Nispel clearly put so much elbow grease into the visuals that he forgot to tell a coherent story, or give his actors any sort of direction.
Critic Consensus: Laden with schmaltz and largely bereft of evident narrative purpose, North represents an early major disappointment from previously sure - handed director Rob Reiner.
Kang goes on to write, «[Director and writer Martin] McDonagh says he created Mildred in part as a corrective: He was «conscious» that his previous films, «In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» were bereft of meaty roles for women.»
Critics Consensus: Laden with schmaltz and largely bereft of evident narrative purpose, North represents an early major disappointment from previously sure - handed director Rob Reiner.
Critics Consensus: A star - studded turkey, Movie 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs.
Harris is likable, if bereft of dramatic ability, and Penn makes up for anything she's not bringing to her scenes.
Critic Consensus: A star - studded turkey, Movie 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs.
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The problem with it was the people on it were the unrealistically hot and bereft of much variety.
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