Sentences with phrase «better than the genre»

I'm no sucker for horror films, but I can tell you that this one, straddling the gore / suspense divide and leaning to the former, is only a bit better than the genre's average output.

Second secret: having a penis and writing a book doesn't make it better than a genre you don't write in.

Not exact matches

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Others have pointed out how horror, more than any other genre, deals explicitly with issues of good and evil.

Not to demean the genre of intellectual history, but Carter's Revolt Against Destiny is a good bit more engaging than much that passes under that banner.

So what better time to look back at some other classics of the genre, unsurprisingly featuring the great feuds between Arsenal and Manchester United no less than three times!

It doesnâ $ ™ t matter what genre of music you prefer, any music is better than no music at all.

One view, subscribed to by the towering French figure of Jules Gabriel Verne, a man with a better claim to being the Father of Science Fiction than anyone else, was that the genre should consider itself almost a legitimate field of science proper, or at least should try to hold itself to an analogous code of rigor.

Also hard not to respect a genre film where people are evenly lit rather than typecast as good and evil.

All those movies I just mentioned are quite likely at least a little bit better than this one, but «World War Z» is without question the biggest thing ever done in this genre.

It is a reasonably skillful exercise in genre and style, a well - made vessel containing nothing in particular, though some of its features — European setting, slow pacing, full - frontal female nudity — are more evocative of the art house than of the multiplex.

This is the terrain for which Foley, at his best a slinky genre stylist with a tobacco - acrid edge, was presumably brought on board, and he gives it a bit of vim: A luxury - vehicle car chase, screeching and weaving at arrogant speed along the highways of Seattle, is a set piece that rattles in the mind longer and louder than the who and why of it all.

That J - Stars Victory Vs + delivers its rampant destruction in a way that goes down so smoothly, even for newcomers to the genre / universe... well, that's more than enough to make it worth picking up, as far as I'm concerned.

Families with canines are better off staying home and having an old - fashioned backyard frolic than trotting out to see Show Dogs, a panting, poorly trained entry in the live - action / talking animal genre that for once makes viewers long for the candy - colored, half - witted professionalism of third - tier Pixar - knockoff animation.

The Bastard Executioner feels a bit more like people playing dress up than the best works in its genre should.

While she's the reason to see this movie, the plot is also well - done, and is a more positive piece than most of the films in this genre.

Close's burnished enigma characterization works beautifully because Damages, which will spend its 13 - episode season detailing the six months that led to the opening shots of a blood - covered Ellen escaping a murder scene, is more a well - oiled genre exercise than the stuff of rigorous personality study.

I suppose you could do worse than watching really good actors take bullets for 90 minutes in a deft genre exercise, but then again, maybe you can't.

It's certainly worth picking up Battlezone: Combat Commander if you like the central premise of an RTS / FPS mash - up as it's still one of the best games in the Action Strategy genre, but if Rebellion or Big Boat make a proper Battlezone 3 then we hope it'll focus on the fun more than the frustration.

Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is rated higher in international film circles than «Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.

It becomes a much better movie than the original «Deadpool,» not an action bloodbath with laughs, but a knowing spoof of the superhero genre.

The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix is a little better than the Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 on the HD side and standard Dolby Digital 5.1 on the DVD side, with a decent soundfield, dialogue that is usually recorded well and a music score typical of the genre by Craig Armstrong and Ar Rahman.

If you're going to attempt to make a mark on a genre that already boasts an exacting pedigree you must - one, introduce new ideas, and two, execute the established rules better than your peers.

Rather than be choosy, the movie mines from both the best (Klute, Play Misty for Me) AND worst (Fear, No Good Deed) of the bunch, piling the tired tropes of the genre at the feet of moviegoers like a cat does dead mice.

There's a lot of heart poured in from the talented cast to make this a cut above most in the genre, and there is quite a bit of good romantic dialogue and situations to make this deeper than the superficial relationship we usually get.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

Occupying the director's chair is Nimrod Antal, a kindred spirit of Rodriguez's whose «Vacancy» and «Armored» were genre films that turned out better than a lot of their genre - mates do — which describes «Predators,» too.

More of a 10 - episode movie than a traditional sitcom season, «Better Things» reminded me of the genre - busting structure of co-creator Louis C.K.'s influential hit.

Yet if you forget, for just a moment, about genre pedigree, what is it, really, that makes «The Shape of Water» a «richer» film — or a better one — than «Get Out»?

Genre thrills of a much tamer, more virtuosic variety arrived in the form of Gravity (Grade: B --RRB-, which proves what the Mexican auteur Alfonso Cuarón can do with an enormous budget — and also that he may need a better writing partner than his son, Jonás.

While Brancato, Ferris and McG can't capture the essence of what made its predecessors riveting entertainment, they have turned in a solid action / sci - fi piece that works better as a genre flick than it does in comparison to the more populist works that were the Cameron entries.

[Gary] Shore's directorial debut breaths new life into the genre, taking this story back hundreds of years, delving into the unknown origin story of the innovator himself, Mr. Dracula... The way Vlad craves blood is well - judged, as we see him battle his conscious; a far more intriguing and entertaining battle than those in the war zone, which are unvaried and monotonous.

«The Spectacular Now,» at least for its first half, is better than one might expect from this teen - coming - of - age genre.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Biography MPAA rating: PG Director: Gabriele Muccino Actors: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton Plot: Based on a true story, in 1981 struggling salesman Chris Gardner wants nothing more than the best for his family, especially his son.

At 93 minutes, the story doesn't stay longer than warranted, but still, the rest of the film clicks well enough that a bit more fleshing out would have turned a good action flick into a must - see for genre fans and even some non-fans alike.

Super Troopers was a straight out comedy rather than a spoof on a well known genre, and maybe this is part of the problem.

The good parts are worth sitting through the slow parts — particularly if, like me, you're a sucker for the genre to begin with — but it feels less a giddy merger of what's great about TV and movies than a reluctant alliance.

Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video review to provide context via clips of the film is a step beyond what the vast majority of populist or even academic film criticism has done in the past, let alone other related films in the genre and in the director's oeuvre for context.

Director Claire Denis is choosing a more diverse range of film projects than any other time in her career - and it's best exemplified by Let the Sunshine in, a romcom that subverts genre expectations on the hunt for true love.

Red Oaks is no better or worse than its peers in this genre; certainly it will trigger fond and awkward memories for those who lived it or something like it, but the pilot episode released earlier this year doesn't make a case that these feelings have much thematic potential beyond the usual cliches.

He has recruited an incredible cast, including genre icon Tobin Bell, in easily his most notable post-Jigsaw role, and the elusive Jay Duplass, a respected figure in the cinema industry better known for making movies than featuring in them, let alone starring.

The (very few) good ones are amazing but the bad ones are soooo unbelievably crap and, unfortunately, the horror genre seems to have a massively higher percentage of bad films than good films.

A combination of two very codified genres, the courtroom drama and the small - town homecoming movie, it's better than one would expect from the director of Shanghai Knight and Fred Claus, without being especially interesting in any regard.

FAR, far better than most movies in this genre.

The acting is also better than most entries in the genre; in addition to solid performances from its two leads, Ma Dong - Seok absolutely steals the show as the badass father - to - be.

While the original was received well, the game did not really innovate in any way and struggled to distinguish itself against other games in the genre other than having the Halo aesthetic.

Haysbert, sporting a bald head and a thick salt and pepper beard, is especially good, doing more acting than the genre fare for which he may be best known.

That screenwriter David Nicholls harbours a fear of alienating ardent period drama / Hardy enthusiasts by reformulating an over-familiar plot is evident, but what is more regrettable is, although there are flashes of Vinterberg's skilled craftsmanship throughout the film, it ultimately remains contained within the tight strictures of the genre and becomes no better or worse than the plethora of recent period dramas; solid and dependable but utterly riskless and tired, begging the question, is the period drama genre well passed its sell by date?

Fortunately, writer - director Scott Cooper found financing for Hostiles, a film with much more on its mind than the pitfalls of the well - worn, currently not - often - attempted genre that in this case tries to make a case for racial understanding against all odds.

But its best quality outside of the amazing and gruesome practical effects, is the fact that Revenge does more than just breathe new life into a tired genre, it kicks its ass.