Sentences with phrase «by lesser films»

For «The Weather Man» succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture — it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

Succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture - it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

Not exact matches

A lesser film would have opened by loading her with backstory about her royal heritage, her home planet and her ties to the Rebel Alliance (in fact, the lesser prequels committed just such errors with their own characters.)

By contrast, if I had simply destroyed a blank, unexposed piece of your film, you would have been much less upset.

And by using less film overall, visual packaging manufacturers can reduce their source material usage.

The thing I find most freaky about it is the «film» it seems to leave behind on the kitchen counter if you drop a bit (and by a «bit», I mean the teensiest amount):\ I've been meaning to investigate some more good GF baking binders (such as guar gum etc) Hopefully I find one a little less intimidating:)

The Katan - Ex microlayer film excels in increased pallet stability at elevated temperatures, uses 30 percent less material per pallet and reduces damage products during transportation by 80 percent.

Less than twenty years later, the hotel established by Lucien Barrière on the Croisette was at the forefront of the beginnings of a cinematic event that became the most important film festival in the world — the Cannes Film Festival.

A forensic assessment of the filmed recordings by father and son team (Hypothetical Premier League) of every match played in the Premiership and the critical decisions made by referees shows that Arsenal would have finished top of the League (2 points more than they got) and Leicester should have been 2nd (9 points less than they got)-- if the use of video evidence had been used to review important decisions.

The Milibands insist they are still close, but relations between their camps have become strained, with David's key allies branding rival Ed «Forrest Gump» after the less - than - bright character played by Tom Hanks in the hit film.

A much smaller contract to supply office furniture for the film hub built by COR, worth less than two hundred thousand dollars, attracted interest from twelve companies after being advertised more widely.

Simply put, by employing less expensive semiconducting material thin - film solar cells would be cheaper to make, a fact born out by thin - film solar manufacturer First Solar's world - beating module that costs 73 cents per watt in 2011, albeit before the expense of installing it on the roof.

The flat tips of the diamond anvils are less than half a millimeter in diameter, and the metal film (gray), ruby sphere (red), and pressure medium (blue fluid) are sealed between the diamonds by a metal gasket (solid purple).

Two days after my visit, the team identified flickering frequencies that are less affected by the mechanical noise and filmed a researcher controlling the exoskeleton with his mind alone.

He decided to try by filming hummingbirds in the wild, which are less inhibited about flying than their captive counterparts.

The McCartney family launches short film «One Day a Week» highlighting the environmental impact of animal agriculture and encourages people to help by eating less meat, with appearances by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney, Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone.

The top 10 lies told by men are as follows: 1) having a better job than they do, 2) taller than they really are 3) weight is less than it really is 4) more athletic than they really are 5) have more money than they really do 6) have more work seniority than they do 7) are in a more interesting profession than they really are 8) know celebrities 9) have employees or an assistant and 10) work in the film industry.

Empire Strikes Back ended with the Empire winning, Han Solo being taken by Jabba the Hutt, and Luke Skywalker facing his darkest moment, and the next film more or less reversed all of that over the course of its running time.

Also unlike Hollywood's current slate of animated films, this one is decidedly less for adults and geared more toward a young audience, as most scenes depict the childish adventures of Ponyo (voiced with high - pitched glee by Miley Cyrus's little sister Noah) and her new best friend.

That statement is less of a spoiler than it seems, but is suitably Byzantine for the twists and turns of the final installment of the stupendously popular film franchise based on the even more adored book series by J.K. Rowling.

Which is to say that the film's interpretation of apartheid may reflect most poorly on the film not because it's wrong but because it's intellectually lazy and, here's the real kicker, LESS INTERESTING than it would have been to show the aliens as not yet another oppressed minority (which has been done to death) but a mass suppressed by an elite group, made to feel like an «other» when, in fact, it's imprisoned in its own homeland.

It's an action - adventure origin myth which plays less like a conventional superhero film and more like a radical Brigadoon or a delirious adventure by Jules Verne or Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Cut by Benson and original editor Kristina Boden, this shortened and combined version premiered at Cannes in May, where it received a less - enthusiastic response than the original films.

Featuring a screenplay by no less than five writers, Flushed Away has clearly been geared to appeal primarily to small children - as evidenced by the film's emphasis on action - oriented set pieces and distinctly broad bits of comedy (there's even a fart joke thrown in for good measure).

Deathly Hallows is more heavily steeped in Potter mythology than any of the other films, and as a result less diehard viewers may find themselves confused by the frequent references to earlier events or unseen characters.

This wonderful film could have so easily been made into a silly comedy but is fortunately instead a bittersweet drama that relies on a captivating performance by the always talented Ryan Gosling, who gives life to a sensitive character that never seems less than real.

It's funny how a «small» Spielberg film can feature an all - star cast led by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, much less leap into production on May 30 and be ready for audiences to see it by the beginning of November.

All of this made me read the film less through the lens of its story (adapted from a 2013 novel of the same name) or its direction (by Francis Lawrence, who directed Jennifer Lawrence through several Hunger Games films), and more through the lens of its star.

Gillespie, working from a script by Steven Rogers, does an effective job of painting a somewhat less - than - flattering portrayal of the protagonist's hard - scrabble existence, with the strength of the film's opening stretch standing in sharp contrast to a middling midsection that grows less and less interesting as time progresses.

That spirit of giddy flippancy keeps the film pleasantly engaging, but it also practically ensures that, unlike the books on which it's based, Peter Rabbit is rather unlikely to be recalled with misty - eyed adoration by the time the year's out, much less over a century after its creation.

I'll wager that whatever realism may have been present in Matthews's book has been mostly stripped out by Justin Haythe's script, which focuses less on the gritty details of espionage and more on the various crimes visited upon the body and soul of Dominika Egorova (Lawrence), the film's protagonist.

Filmed in less than glorious two - strip Cinecolor, this average Eddie Dean western benefited from Dean performing «Ride on the Tide of a Song», «Journey's End «and «I Can Tell by the Stars».

Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn.

Based on the popular mystery play by Frederick Knott, Dial M For Murder is more talky and stagebound than most Hitchcock films, but no less enjoyable.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

Bacall exudes a lot of magnetism and sensuality in her debut on the screen, a decent sort - of - rip - off of Casablanca - based on Hemingway and co-written by William Faulkner no less - that relies on a strong chemistry between her and Bogart in their first of four films together.

The film unfolds at a deliberate pace, with a soundtrack occupied less by dialogue than by the sounds of water flowing and crickets chirping.

By the time we get to the bar scene, we're willing them to get with things so much that we don't really mind whether they grow as people or not, and at the end of the film everything goes (more or less) back to the way things were.

Their star quality has been recognized by no less an entity than Vice Media who, some months after the film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, announced «plans to launch an extensive transmedia cross-promotion and social - media outreach campaign to capitalize on its following» with distributor Magnolia Pictures, per a May Variety item.

Impressed by the combination of «physical scale and human emotion,» The Guardian gives the film four out of five stars, but Indiewire is a little less enamored, claiming the film «stumbles on its earnestness» even though it «never ceases to be a visual marvel.»

There are a few new funny bits and in other cases, the film's rhythm and pacing seems mildly hindered by adding a less potent comedic coda or non-essential moment (like Doug being gifted the Mercedes from his new father - in - law, played by Jeffrey Tambor).

Inspired by Heidi Murkoff's multimillion - selling - self - help - book for expectant mothers — holding the same name — «What to Expect», the film, will be much less prolific.

This time it's newlyweds (played by Steve Zahn and Milla Jonovich), a screenwriter and his blushing bride who go rural, and encounter, not just the islanders, but stateside couples of a lesser pedigree, which creates the same class struggle found in the Boorman film.

loosely based on the whitman texas tower case; peter bogdanovich's first film, shot in less than 3 weeks, produced by roger corman and released in 1968 shortly after the mlk and rfk assassinations

It's the right film at the right time, a cathartic moment in which audiences will shed tears for a little machine made of silicon and aluminium, wrapped in tin foil and running on less computing power than our smartphones, yet which will outlive us all — perhaps by billions of years.

The Walk finished with a domestic gross of just $ 10.1 million, making it by far the biggest flop of Zemeckis» directing career (though much less costly than the mocap family film Mars Needs Moms that he produced) and one of the biggest financial disappointments of the year.

It is perhaps not surprising (although no less shameful), given the confusion over evolution whipped up and exploited by the religious right in the United States, that the film's producers had a difficult time finding a distributor for their work in the US — this, despite the fact that Creation was chosen to open the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

Like many films by Besson — «The Professional,» «The Fifth Element,» «The Messenger» and other high - octane shoot -»em - ups — «Lucy» starts out riveting but becomes less engaging as it goes along.

Gorgeously photographed by Billy Williams, On Golden Pond is a wonderful valedictory for Henry Fonda, who died not long after the film's completion; Katharine Hepburn has less to do, but few can do so much with so little.

All the President's Men was released less than two years after Nixon resigned (and in America's bicentennial year, no less), and there are moments in the film that seem all too aware of the scandal's outcome by evincing a flagrant self - congratulatory spirit.