Sentences with phrase «best fictional films»

Not exact matches

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

If you read the book on which the film is based, you can see that the facts damn Irish clericalism well enough without the added polemics displayed in a made - up speech by a basically fictional bitterly anti-erotic nun.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

It perhaps explains why Epstein and Friedman resort to a fictional telling of an important story, but the complexity of the debates that Deep Throat and Lovelace's story provoke is lost in their simplistic film that's made enjoyable by good performances and incidental pleasures.

She uses that to her advantage; creating a film that breathes with the complexity of the best «fictional» works.

It happened this weekend: The BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS (of which I am a veteran member) met for the 37th time and voted Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD (which a significant number of critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day - Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM of the year.

Set on a fictional, well - to - do east coast island during the fall of 1965, the film follows Sam, Suzy, and the frantic search party that organizes to look for the pair after their joint escape.

The best Iranian film in years, invisible in its own country save for a series of screenings at the latest Fajr Film Festival, a sum of Banietemad's work (both fictional and documentary): characters from some of her earlier films meet and have complex, intimate interactions over the landscape of contemporary Tehran.

In the film, 19 - year - old Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller, «The Spectacular Now»), an ambitious drumming student enrolled at the prestigious Shaffer Conservatory of Music (fictional) in midtown Manhattan, comes under the tutelage of Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons, «Contraband»), a high - ranking instructor who is well - known for pushing his students to the limits of their endurance and beyond.

The reason they're fighting is a good one: Citing the mass destruction of New York City, Washington D.C., Sokovia (the fictional city ruined in the end of «Avengers: Age of Ultron»), and at the start of this film, Lagos, Nigeria, Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt) informs the Avengers that the governments of the world want supervision over the superheroes.

A24 has unveiled the first trailer for the film The Disaster Artist, a fictional account of the making of the «best worst movie ever made» - The Room, as directed by Tommy Wiseau.

Well, that long - held fantasy looks set to become reality courtesy of adidas, who have recreated the previously - fictional, retro - styled shoe as it appears in the iconic film.

It's pretty well known that filmmaker Richard Linklater and his four central actors — Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the parents, Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as the older sister, and Ellar Coltrane as Mason — shot the film over the course of 12 years to watch not just Mason but everyone in the fictional family grow up and evolve over time.

Set in the fictional town of Ebbing, Missouri, Francis McDormand («Burn After Reading»), who carries the film in one of her best...

The director makes a good but not perfect transition to fictional films here.

But unlike that film's hideous, child - napping Han River dweller, Okja couldn't be cuter or friendlier: She is one of a new breed of genetically modified «super-pigs,» with which the fictional Mirando Corporation hopes to rejuvenate and dominate the global pork market — though not if a young South Korean girl named Mija (the terrific Ahn Seo - hyun), Okja's caretaker and best friend, has anything to say about it.

Taking place on the last day of Mishima's life, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer's past as well as gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works.

SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, as well as the films and video games based on those novels.The group is led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

In the tradition of the best sci - fi, the film is much better at recreating an onscreen fictional universe than it is at creating a palpable sense of dread to make it work as a successful creature feature.

Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room, a well - reviewed survival / horror film that pits a punk - rock band against a group of violent racists, is entirely fictional.

Peter Sarsgaard does good things withChuck Lane, the unpopular editor who discovers Glass's transgressions.But the real Lane reportedly served as a consultant on the film, whichprobably explains why the fictional Lane comes out as a hero.Screenwriter Billy Ray (Color of Night, Hart's War) makes hisdirectorial debut, and though the film is both seductive and maddening, you can't quite write it off.

It's Marvel's first film centered around a hero of color, and Black Panther is one of the oldest and best: the ruler of a fictional African nation called Wakanda and one of the first black superheroes in comics when Marvel introduced him in 1966.

Denzel Washington is one of the film world's most prominent leading men, known best for his galvanizing portrayals of both real - life figures (Malcolm X, The Hurricane, American Gangster) and fictional characters (Philadelphia, Devil in a Blue Dress, Flight).

Stitching together story elements from «A Star is Born,» «Sunset Boulevard,» and others, as well as characters inspired by real - life silent film stars John Gilbert and Charles Chaplin (and others), and recycling music wholesale from later films (most notably, Bernard Hermann's score for «Vertigo»), «The Artist» bears an unmistakable resemblance to Woody Allen's «Zelig,» another nostalgic movie that wove together real - life incidents with fictional recreations.

It's filled with very special human drama that transcends the education film genre and is better than any fictional film that I've ever seen about schools.

The equivalent in theatre is perhaps audience participation, in film the «werewolf break» in The Beast Must Die (1974) or the message «Based on a true story» occupy a similar meta - fictional space, as does a good ol' fashioned cliffhanger of the kind associated with classic serial films such as Flash Gordon (1936) and almost exhausted of its possibilities in classic Doctor Who (1963 - 1989).

By September, UTA Fine Arts had revealed two film projects, both of them documentaries: Maura Axelrod's study of the prankster - sculptor Maurizio Cattelan, and an absurdist quest for a quite possibly fictional sculpture by Ed Ruscha, made by Pierre Bismuth, a French conceptual artist best known for co-writing the Oscar - winning screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The movie — well, OK it was a good, old school, action film that I selected not because of the cast or plot, but because very little green / blue screen CGI was used — was shot outside in the fictional country of Azmenistan (pronounced Arse - meany - stan) in a fictional deserted, derelict, high - rise hotel / casino.