Sentences with phrase «child film critic»

Of course there is a difference between the 20 - 40 year - old blogger and this child film critic.

Not exact matches

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

It's a sloppy movie for a true movie critic, but, its inspiration and a feel good film, especially for children.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

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It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.

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Our film critic Erika Olson is not taking her 5 - year - old child to see this film.

The punchline to all of this is that since Boston's reigning PR agents no longer consider me a film critic, I won tickets to something they called an «advanced» screening of Men, Women & Children in a contest online.

On the heels of his recent Best Cinematography feting from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for his work in Children of Men, Emmanuel Lubezki took top honors in the feature film competition last night at the 21st annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

Bertrand Tavernier, who began as a film critic before making his 1974 directing debut with «The Clockmaker,» assembled this wide - ranging, three - hours - plus history of French filmmaking, from «Children of Paradise» to «Forbidden Games.»

Any film critic is aware of the difficulties it entails for a director to film with children and animals, and The Zookeeper's Wife does both, so I can respect the work done here.

His now iconic performance was almost swept under the carpet, in a film that on its initial release was treated like an abandoned child by audiences and critics alike.

The film was loosely based on the beloved children's book of the same name and earned Lord and Miller a Golden Globe and Critics Choice nomination for «Best Animated Feature» along with four Annie Award nominations for excellence in animation, including «Best Direction» and «Best Screenplay.»

I was thrilled when Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film «Children of Men» won my local film critics group's award for Movie of the Year, and what he does here dwarves that in terms of technical achievement, while Sandra Bullock delivers as raw a performance as she's ever given in her life.

Examining the photographs of these events, many snapped by Harry Shunk, we might find Saint Phalle's partner, Tinguely; art critic Pierre Restany; gallerist Jeannine de Goldschmidt; poet John Ashbery; her estranged husband, Harry Mathews, and their two children; various neighbors; and artists Daniel and Vera Spoerri, Hugh Weiss, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Ad Reinhardt, and Edward Kienholz, among others.16 Since Saint Phalle considered the sessions to be performance events, or «spectacles,» she amplified their theatricality by arranging for their media - documentation in photographs and short films that painstakingly disclose her methods.17 In addition to the before - and - after images of the firings, where Saint Phalle is often pictured striking defiant or bemused poses, other scenes reveal the creative process leading up to the event.

Interviewed in the the film are River's dealer Pierre Levai, art historian and critic Sam Hunter, author Arnold Weinstein, his ex-wife Clarice, his children and Rivers himself.