Sentences with phrase «brash film»

And now Weinstein, often portrayed in the press as a brutish and brash film enthusiast who could make or break movie dreams, has been officially ejected from the film community, civilized society, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, if not in that order.

Again writing with star Gerwig, Baumbach has constructed what is easily his most exuberantly brash film yet — chartering a collision course with contemporary beatnik culture at neck break speeds and spilling out a messy monument in its wake.

If this brash film is part of a political protest to bring Oscar's killer to justice, it actually might have done more to muddy the fine details of the case.

It's a brash film with its finger on the pulse, but there's enough warmth and charm here to keep everyone happy and wryly smiling throughout.

A bolder, brasher film would have allowed these paradoxes to exist without painting Bulger as simply a tyrant, often the one doing the shooting or strangling, making him in that hand - on way feel smaller rather than the opposite.

Not exact matches

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

Brash execs must have assumed the new film was so amazing that they'd be drowned by a wave of positive press, perhaps enough to rival the film's chief comic - book competitor, the universally loved Captain America: Civil War.

Like the (far superior) recent Russian film «Elena,» Child's Pose paints a compelling portrait of post-Soviet capitalism in all its uncorked appetites, its brash cronyism and graft, its pretensions, its clueless philistinism.

It's arguable that Nyoni is stretching a thin premise, but this film is one of the obvious breakouts of the year: exactly the kind of young work - brash, committed, and narratively unpredictable - that film festivals are supposed to champion.

Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is an uncommonly nuanced and intelligent film about the volatile relationships between teenage girls and their mothers, and it begins with a brash, borderline - surreal expression of frustration.

Brash, bold and bloody, Green Room is one 2016 film I continue to revisit and find more to appreciate each time; a film that could almost have taken on a strange political tinge with the rise of the alt - right into the mainstream but wouldn't give a damn about all that anyways.

Because any film like this needs a wild card, outrageously brash comedian Everett is up to the job, and she has a very specific comedic daring that earns a few mild chuckles here.

Rating: 5/10 — a man (Lowery) drives across country after the death of his brother and gives a lift to a woman (Lane) who tricks him into being the getaway driver in a bank robbery, a situation that sees him on the run from the police but determined to prove his innocence; a gritty, hard - boiled film noir, They Made Me a Killer adds enough incident to its basic plot to keep viewers entertained from start to finish without really adding anything new or overly impressive to the mix, but it does have a brash performance from Lowery, and Thomas's direction ensures it's another solid effort from Paramount's B - movie unit, Pine - Thomas.

When Jake Gyllenhaal shows up as a brash American guide, sunning himself shirtlessly on Everest with bourbon in hand, he seems ready to take over the film but never does.

It seems out of place at first, but it counterbalances really nicely the brash and cocksure facade he wears almost the whole rest of the film.

But no matter how brash all of these characters are, it's the film's soundtrack that's even more invasive, almost as if Lee left his iTunes playing on shuffle while editing the film.

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When the film starts, he's a confident, sometimes brash husband - to - be, but his discovery of human remains begins his descent into confusion, vulnerability, and ultimately fragility.

Bustin» Down the Door The latest entry in the time - honored surfing documentary genre, joining the likes of «Step Into Liquid» and «Riding Giants,» this film profiles the group of brash Australians and South Africans who challenged Hawaiians at their own sport in the mid-1970s.

As you watch the film you see some cracks in the hard, brash Halley and, if you've any empathy, start to feel her plight a little.

In his other films he has a charismatic presence completely lost here behind the brash Communist character.

Which is to say that there isn't another American filmmaker alive who could get away with creating something as brash, overblown and sporadically brilliant as the eighth film by Quentin Tarantino.

Arthur Penn may not be a household name among young cinephiles, but his iconic 1967 film «Bonnie and Clyde» was a brash boundary - pusher that opened the New American Cinema of the 1970s to extreme sex, violence, and a European sensibility.

Low budget crime movies were never going to capture the Academy's attention, but the one and only film directed by Leonard Kastle now stands as a shining example of the brash, bold wave of filmmakers that changed the game at the turn of this decade.

It's a film that's true to the spirit, local colour and low - key origins of the original but that knows when to play it big and brash

While known mostly for his brash, rule breaking cinematic style, his films and characters consistently possess great insight into the small, seemingly insignificant moments that can change lives.

«I just wanted to talk to him, and when I talked to him he was so clear and so confident, not in a brash way but he knew the film he wanted to make, and it was a really lovely thing.

It's the story behind the story, and it's the film equivalent of reading an especially thrilling New Yorker article: ruthlessly detailed, precise and gripping but never brash or overemotional.

Playing ineffectual New York talent agent Danny Rose, Allen leads a film that has a little bit of everything: a wronged man, car chase, lounge singers, mobsters, adultery, and Mia Farrow playing against type as a smoking, brash «other woman.»

Young and brash, Karlson described his job as «washing toilets and dishes and whatever the hell they gave me» 4 and talked his way into a number of short - lived assignments as an assistant to directors Arthur Lubin, Henry Koster, Tay Garnett, William Wyler, Stuart Walker and John Ford, and successfully pitched a story idea to Will Rogers, who unfortunately died in a plane crash before the film could be made.

Woody's younger son David (Will Forte, in an understated performance that serves as the film's sympathetic core) arrives at his parents» house to hear from his mother Kate (June Squibb, stealing scenes left and right with her brash commentary) how miserable it is to live with Woody, who maybe has a year or two tops, she suspects, before he succumbs to some form of dementia.

The tale of the lonesome migration of the Irish to brash New York is a well trodden storyline.This particular effort is worthy but not the best film in that genre..

Justin Kurzel's Snowtown was a remarkable film, a brash feature debut that signaled the emergence of a unique talent joining a slew of them coming out of the Australian independent scene.

The film stars Academy Award - winner Sean Penn (for Mystic River), who rises to the challenge, and thus should be a shoo - in for his fifth nomination for his curiously brash yet endearing performance in the title role.

His presence amps up the authenticity of many of the film's best scenes and he occasionally makes for a better Ice Cube than Ice Cube, oozing brash charisma.

In his review for The Times, Justin Chang called the film «an incorrigible, unapologetic blast,» before adding «the movie is a big, brash tale of American striving as well as an identity - blurring, chronology - fudging bit of storytelling business.

There's a subtlety to the development of theme and characterization in Call Me by Your Name that's unusual for Guadagnino, whose films are usually brash and attention - grabbing.

I'm not sure if writer - director Martin McDonagh suffered a case of writer's block on his way to creating Seven Psychopaths, but the end result is brash, brilliant, wickedly fun, and the best film about screenwriting since Adaptation.

There might also be no film more in need of help being championed, a work surely going to be stampeded in a year where more brash, loud and bombastic films will take all the attention away.

Delivering star - making performances in critically acclaimed films such as Ex Machina and Inside Llewyn Davis, Isaac is probably most widely recognized for his role as the brash, impulsive, but infinitely likable Resistance pilot Poe Dameron in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.

The crew is rounded out by Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny and the achingly vulnerable Tessa Thompson — so brash and indomitable in films like Dear White People and Creed, yet here so delicate I kept hoping she'd turn around and go home instead of facing whatever horrors lie ahead.

Though Lindsay Lohan seems comfortable in her position as Disney's teenage female lead, her character is brash, dishonest, and whiny, and it's tough to find a film centered around her particularly compelling.

In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.

What's interesting as you work backwards through films we've made about traveling to Mars is: the further back in time you go (and therefore, the less scientific knowledge about the planet with which the filmmakers would have been working), the more Mars ceases to be a cold, inhospitable ball of red mud and becomes a brash, romantic fantasy world onto which stories more and more achingly mythic can be grafted.

If you're familiar with his previous films, you'll know that he's brash and outrageous (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and controversial (Shortbus and the video for Scissor Sisters» «Filthy / Gorgeous.»)

Sal is loud, brash, and foul - mouthed, a spark plug for a film that's otherwise painfully quiet.

Speaking of brash, I'd say the same, this time as a high compliment, of «Zootopia,» which was and is truly, actually and completely a really good film.

Taking overt stylistic cues from previous Robbie projects The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street, there's a brash dynamism to the film, which examines Tonya's turbulent upbringing and personal life, «The Incident» which ended her career, and the lasting impact for almost all parties involved.

Godard shared that Jury prize with 25 - year - old Xavier Dolan, the four - film veteran whose latest - a long, brash, funny domestic - launches him into the mainstream.

An extremely competitive Original Screenplay category was won by Quentin Tarantino for the enjoyably brash and transgressive Django Unchained, immediately followed up with a worthy win for Christoph Waltz (pictured above right) for his supporting (show - stealing) performance in the same film.