Sentences with phrase «challenging film»

I can't praise this film enough, and even though it is a very heavy, very challenging film to sit through, it's worth it.

What follows is a confronting and challenging film about loneliness and belonging.

The first challenge the film has is to establish characters.

If you are into challenging films, this should be right up your alley.

I wouldn't say this is one of my favorites, but it was definitely shocking — a very challenging film and a very delicate subject.

This is a tough, challenging film about a lonely man coping with family issues that you could never see coming.

And everyone is likely to draw different conclusions, and the choice by the filmmakers to take this angle on the film has led quite possibly the most morally challenging film of the year (and quite possibly for a number of years).

The single biggest challenge the film faces is that there is no strict protagonist or antagonist so it's not entirely clear who we should be rooting for.

If you like challenging films like Holy Motors, Enter the Void, and Upstream Color you can't miss this one.

For those who prefer not to watch Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson defend a skyscraper from terrorists — «it's «Die Hard,» with a taller building,» was the pitch — there will be brainy, thoughtful and cinematically challenging films released this summer as well, covered in Carla Meyer's indie movie preview.

And the narratively challenged film seems conflicted: It critiques our obsession with models and beauty and style, even as it obsesses about those very same things.

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Sloppy writing gives savvy movie - cum - music fans the impression that this demographically challenged film doesn't know the difference between Nashville and Austin, or in other words, the schism which divides contemporary country music into its inimical sides: mainstream and alternative, just like rock, or any number of musical genres.

It doesn't challenge film in general (as his best films do) so much as it criticizes it with a dim - witted, punchable smirk.

Moviegoers these days seem to be threatened by challenging films like Birdman (2014) that defy cinematic conventions, and instead prefer traditional motion pictures like Unbroken that uplift the spirit.

Perhaps one of the most artistically challenging films at this year's festival was the Argentine tribute to its history.

For many critics, in fact, it's been a few years since the Palme d'Or was bestowed on a suitably challenging film, and the selections of the 70th anniversary edition lacked a clear stand - out bravura work.

But reflect that when you see a subdued and challenging film late in the festival, you come to it dazed with movie overload.

The Captive is the brainchild of Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, who continues to produce challenging films that seem to hit and miss with equal measure.

It's a somewhat challenging film that is slow - burning and threatens to change point of view midway through, but ultimately a thought - provoking one with deep emotional resonance that lingers.

Two adults with ulterior motives put on false faces to each win a bet in the relationship - challenged film How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

This is certainly Fincher's most challenging film since Fight Club.

Nonetheless, The Decalogue is meant to be taken as a whole, and in its complete form, it not only ranks as one of the most ambitious and challenging film works ever attempted, but one of the most rewarding and unforgettable.

After directing such formally and narratively challenging films as his adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's «Child of God» and William Faulkner's «As I Lay Dying,» James Franco's work in adapting the Steinbeck novel could provoke a nearly identical response.

Manhunter is a much more challenging film, deeper artistically, with far better characterizations, and is a breath of fresh air when contrasting it to the masterful, but darkly gothic Silence of the Lambs.

It's worth noting that those gentlemen also won for very visually sumptuous, very technically challenging films — and it feels like it's time for Mr. del Toro to join that exclusive club.

Papatakis's most psychedelic and intellectually challenging film, Gloria Mundi, a virulent denunciation of consumer capitalism and a hypocritical left - wing intelligentsia that deems itself political but does not take any action, begins with a scream and ends with an explosion.

The information she shares is indeed devastating — a child who has her nose broken by a broomstick; who has her head set on fire; who has to suffer «visits» from a pathological father; who is physically hurt by her first husband — but so strong is Hershman Leeson's creative drive that it ultimately provides the energy for her profoundly moving, fascinating, intensely colorful, gorgeously illustrated, sometimes humorous, and always philosophically challenging films.

Although this film is by far Seidl's least daring and challenging film of the series (and his career for that matter), there is still a lot to admire about it.

After South Korea and Denmark, I find the most fascinating, captivating, and cinematically challenging films are coming straight out of Romania.

-- «The Best Years of Our Lives» (1946): This three - hour blockbuster about servicemen returning home from World War II and the adjustments they must make to civilian life is a thoughtful, challenging film with fine performances all around — including that of nonactor Harold Russell, who lost his hands in the war.

But still, Nic was opting to go to Thailand and make this very challenging film, financially and for other reasons.

But it is most profoundly asked and answered in Denis Villeneuve's best and most challenging film to date, the brilliant Arrival.

The following list will attempt to give these forgotten films their due, and also shine a light on some of 2017's most interesting, challenging films that audiences (and sometimes critics) ultimately rejected.

We were lucky enough to speak to him on the phone about the themes and ideas behind his intense, challenging film, and here's what he told us.

«To Hell and Back: Production» (23:41) continues in that same vein, focusing on the decision to have Cage play the Rider as well (instead of a stuntman, as the first film did), the challenging filming of a sequence (which ended up being cut), and the make - up work (which is treated to time - lapse photography)

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a challenging film.

The resulting gross is credible for the challenge the film offers.

Just a few years ago, Cage had action movie credibility (thanks to things like The Rock and Face / Off), family blockbuster appeal (the National Treasure series), and the chops and versatility to make compelling and challenging films for celebrated directors (such as Spike Jonze's Adaptation and Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men).

Russell isn't one to shy away offbeat, challenging films, as I Heart Huckabees and Three Kings have proven.

This is a challenging film, but it's a rewarding one as well.

By far the most challenging film I'll likely see all year, similar to how mind - boggling Carlos Reygadas» Post Tenebras Lux must have felt when it screened in competition a few years ago, part of why I have it over giants like Leviathan and Winter Sleep is because its mystical powers fascinate me beyond words.

So too does William Oldroyd's darkly disturbing Lady Macbeth, a fascinatingly cerebral and challenging film that does an awful lot with a restricted budget.

GONYEA: It's a challenging film.

It was a challenging film from start to finish.

The purpose of Breakdown episodes is to to ponder, discuss and challenge the films that we feel often need more than just a simple review.