Sentences with phrase «brilliant black comedy»

I have massive love for John Cusack thanks to his roles in Cameron Crowe's SAY ANYTHING and the brilliant black comedy, GROSSE POINT BLANK...

As reported by Screen Daily, the film is being dubbed a «dark fairytale with moments of brilliant black comedy.»

He did so again with 2012's brilliant black comedy Sightseers, blending elements of horror and dark English satire, and once more in 2013's wildly experimental, black and white historical drama / «horror» film A Field in England, though to lesser effect.

Criterion's release is the first official home video release in the U.S. and it is a stunning disc and a welcome debut of a brilliant black comedy and a wicked little psychodrama.

TITUS Julie Taymor creates a visually arrest ing film around Shakespeare's much - maligned «Titus Andronicus,» which emerges as a brilliant black comedy.

This horrendously funny gross - out shocker from Lord of the Rings and King Kong director Peter Jackson is a brilliant black comedy and the ultimate gore movie.

Not exact matches

Robin Williams» movie roles saw him go self - indulgently gooey as often as self - indulgently manic, but in his last great film performance in pal Bobcat Goldthwait's black comedy World's Greatest Dad, he's brilliant.

«Birdman» looks to be nothing if not unique, a sort of dark comedy version of «Black Swan» about celebritydom and crisis of identity that features an excellent cast, including the rather brilliant casting of Michael Keaton in the lead role.

On the one hand, I could hardly argue, not least since we'd both just emerged from a film — Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain's brilliant nightmare of a black comedy «Post Mortem» — that stands as much chance of securing an invitation to the Kodak Theater as Kim Kardashian does to the Kennedy Center Honors.

Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder.

Expect that and more from the writer / director's latest stinging triumph «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» a bleak, all - out brilliant pitch - black comedy that taps the raw nerve of America's revenge - fueled zeitgeist with its unpredictable narrative about how a mom's quest to avenge her murdered daughter upends a town.

Get Out is a brilliant satire on race and the gruesome twist ending of post-Obama America which functions also as a scary movie, black comedy and an acting masterclass from its four leads.

A black comedy laced with moments of shocking cruelty, the film is a dystopian allegory about the human need to find a mate — a brilliant, if morbid, meditation on relationships in the age of the dating app.

Ten years later, I remain stunned that Reese Witherspoon was not nominated for her brilliant work in «Election» as a pathologically ambitious, grasping social climber student doing anything it takes to head up the student council in Alexander Payne's astute and black comedy.

Todd Solondz's unforgettable black comedy benefits from a subversively brilliant screenplay and an ensemble who relished the outrageous opportunities that piece of writing held.

From the bestselling, Man Booker - shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers, comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale.A love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink - black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt's long - awaited follow - up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.Lucien