Sentences with phrase «biopic hagiography»

Not exact matches

Hagiography is to be expected in a biopic but it's more damaging here given how much Woody Harrelson works to ground LBJ.

You do have to give Cheadle credit for not simply making another dull greatest hits hagiography, the kind of musician biopic we see all too often.

There are any number of minefields into which «Goodbye Christopher Robin» might easily have wandered — it's a fall - release biopic set in England between the wars, about the creation of a beloved classic of children's literature — but the film emerges mostly unscathed as neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job on A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh.

* / **** Image A Sound A Extras C starring Curtis «50 Cent» Jackson, Terrence Howard, Joy Bryant, Bill Duke screenplay by Terence Winter directed by Jim Sheridan by Walter Chaw Another in the recent cycle of slick biopics overseen in whole or part by either the subjects themselves or relatives of the same, Jim Sheridan's Get Rich or Die Tryin», the peculiarly flaccid hagiography of two - bit rapper 50 Cent, is an overlong, overly - familiar, wholly sentimental look at a nobody who became a somebody primarily known for getting shot a few times.