Sentences with phrase «closer than any other movie»

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There are a lot of animated movies out there that try to incorporate adult humor into a child's film and, while others may come close, no one does it better than Pixar.

Even as characters are tweaked and actors bring a slightly different energy than his other movies, The Best of Me is still the same mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation with drama so overwrought audience members can't help but laugh — at least until they're sniffling during the closing credits.

First off, I was eager to see this movie for no other reason than to poke fun at performers like David Blaine (a talented close - up magician in his own right) whose careers have centered around boring endurance stunts.

I wasn't too surprised to be let down but this movie, it was actually worst than the first and that was a bad movie, the second on the other hand has more of a story and feels like a genuinely longer movie (as well as more closer to the 2nd / 3d game plot).

A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.

While the cast has some familiar faces, including «Out Of Sight» and «Grey's Anatomy» actor Isaiah Washington as Muhammed, and Joey Lauren Adams and Tim Blake Nelson among the other co-stars, we're hoping for something closer to Gus Van Sant «s «Elephant» than to a Lifetime movie reconstruction.

And if you hate both of those minefields, then let me, as the husband of a sometime screenwriter, ask a question closer to home: What 2015 movie would most have benefited from someone other than its director writing it?

As for the CGI animals, Peyton gives them plenty of opportunities to wreak havoc, although at least one or two of those sequences feels better in conception than execution: though the large - scale destruction is all masterfully rendered — and it must be noted, brutally violent for a PG - 13 movie — he like many other modern filmmakers gets too close to the action, mistaking incomprehensibility for claustrophobia, and seems either unaware of or uninterested in even the basic physics of gravity, falling objects, and so on.

Nick and Norah's sharp, self - conscious repartee has a snappiness that's closer to the way real suburban teenagers speak than the baroque one - liners Diablo Cody put in the mouth of Juno (not to mention every other character in that movie, appropriate or not).

We are born into a box of space and time, and the movies come closer than any other art form in giving us the experience of walking in someone else's shoes.

A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact - based finance guys the film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.