Sentences with phrase «best dystopian movies»

With an involving story, realistic setting and well executed action scenes, Children of Men is one of the best Dystopian movies out there.

Not exact matches

That approach includes focusing the spotlight on Evans» character (who leads a rebellion aboard a futuristic train that houses much of humanity in the film's wintery dystopian setting), in order to better utilize his star power as a selling point - in addition to emphasizing the movie's action beats, as accompanied by the expected dramatic musical cues in the post-Inception age of trailers.

As for the movie representation of Maze Runner series, following the plight of Thomas and his fellow Gladers, this cinematic series falls somewhere in the middle of those two, finding a better groove in its dystopian action than teen drama romance (i.e..

But in trying to make a 10 - best list, I tripped right over my own divided soul right at the top: My two faves of 2016 are Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, an infinitely gentle - souled movie about the poetry of life and the life of poetry that finds more pleasure and meaning in ordinariness than most movies do in extraordinariness, and Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster, a perfectly sustained dystopian sick joke about the desperate, poignant futility of seeking human connection.

It's the best philosophical gumshoe movie since Memento and the best dystopian future flick since Children of Men.

Allegiant, the third and penultimate entry in the series, mostly abandons the dystopian landscape of the ruined Chicago, as well as the social caste system, of the previous movies.

Mendes has always been an assured visual stylist even when his material feels wholly bogus — see Road To Perdition — and in Jarhead's second half the desert begins to look like something out of a dystopian sci - fi movie: Pools of oil spilling everywhere blot out the sun and the only illumination is provided by poisonous oil well infernos.

In the Expanded Universe business, you're only as good as your last movie, and Fantastic Four hung over Fox like a dark, hastily CGI'd in dystopian cloud.

Research is a good start, but it won't do much without parallel processes: innovating policy for designing and financing new energy infrastructure, supporting cultural production that explores a range of futures (when was the last time you saw a future depicted in a movie or TV show that wasn't dystopian?)