Sentences with phrase «compelling films about»

These are simple but compelling films about people who get in over their heads, who make poor choices consistent with their human flaws and suffer the consequences.

Released in 2014, this compelling film about how divorce effects kids inspired McGhee to become involved as a subject matter expert and creative team member.

The Second Mother is a subtle and compelling film about social transgression.

It's a compelling film about determination, rebirth and taking the road less traveled featuring a terrific performance by Reese Witherspoon.

It's a gripping and compelling film about something utterly unthinkable.

Wild, director Jean - Marc Vallee's impressive follow - up to last year's Dallas Buyer's Club is a compelling film about determination, rebirth and taking the road less traveled featuring a fearless lead performance by Reese Witherspoon and a strong supporting turn by Laura...

In the end, I am going to go with my gut instinct about the film and judge it not by the title or lack of thematic focus, and give Estevez his due in making a compelling film about a plethora of interesting issues, with tie - ins to events that effectively contrast to the state of today's world.

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Of all the think - pieces about Amy Schumer's latest film, I Feel Pretty, I found this one, by NYT «s Amanda Hess, most compelling.

Articles about Apple's CEO, inequality, and the producer of the latest Star Wars film are among the year's most compelling.

And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.

While there are many, many compelling things about the film, I found myself gravitating toward a teeny - tiny subplot: when both Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) accidentally hear the tapes each recorded of the other in their attempts to erase each other from their memory, they get a glimpse of what their former romantic partner was thinking of them at the time things went south.

I'm trying to imagine what might possibly be compelling about filming a mom nursing an older child.

«Once I received the script and became engaged related to the subject matter that is a worldwide problem related to people of color, I felt compelled and appreciative to be a part of bringing to life a film about the epidemic of skin bleaching in both impoverished and wealthy nations,» said Vicker.

To Emily Livingston of Match.com, the 1998 film, «You've got Mail», a compelling tale of online romance, can be credited with helping to bring about mainstream acceptance.

And in this moment, the film makes clear what it is that is so compelling about him — perhaps as a person but surely now, as a mythic figure who went out into the mountains and died — the very fact that Chris makes choices, informed and not, eventually irrevocable.

But after the first third — the film is more than 3 hours long — Schindler begins to recognize the horrors that are going on around him and feels compelled to do something about it.

The film was once talked about as the beginning of a possible trilogy, and the finished product feels desperate to start a franchise instead of doing the thing that would actually make such a series compelling: telling an interesting story with skill.

Though many films can profit from a slow pace, the tempo frequently halts the momentum of a tale that is more about its varied cinematography than about compelling battles.

A film about the vital importance of speaking truth to power needn't be so concerned with dressing up its own frightful truths, but Nobody Speak still compels as an opening statement on journalism's dubious future.

The drug story is somewhat compelling; the narration will weaken everything about any film.

It would seem foolish to complain about shallow characterization in a film like this, though in my opinion it should have either actually developed compelling human characters or dwelt less on them.

What's most telling about this film is that a good two thirds of the most interesting, compelling parts of the story (the subsequent revelations after the trial) are told in brief text flashed up on screen just before the credits.

But they don't know much about what makes for a compelling feature film.

The most compelling parts of the film are recordings where McQueen himself appears to be trying to dispel his title as «The King of Cool» and talks quietly and humbly about the pain that led him to Christ.

The festival programme continues until Sunday 20 November with a number of other film and documentary premieres, including Driving with Selvi, the story of a former child bride, who escapes her violent marriage and becomes South India's first female taxi driver and The Innocents a compelling French drama about a young doctor becoming the sole hope for an isolated convent.

Perhaps if the film had concentrated more on introspective elements, such as Rashad and his internal difficulties in growing from a boy into a man, instead of constantly distracting us with side stories — Esquire's quest for the path to success, New New's fence - sitting between the ghetto and the mansion, Ant's seduction into materialism, and the roller skating competition that never really materializes — it would have been a more compelling movie about Atlanta's lower class areas, and the ups and downs of life there.

«The Square»: Swedish director Ruben Ostland's «Force Majeure» was one of the best films of 2014 and while «The Square» isn't nearly as compelling, the drama about a museum director's life crisis still packs a punch.

The only compelling thing about the film turns out to be its partially crowd - funded production — a dubious distinction for a project that ostensibly exists «for the fans.»

A compelling story about an unraveling marriage, the complexities of contemporary Iran, and the damage wrought by divorce, writer - director Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a stunning film that is equally intimate, moving, and free of affectation.

But in his new introduction, his observations about slow cinema from Tarkovsky to Kiarostami to Tarr are every bit as compelling as his earlier insights into film noir.»

The film leaves a few too many unanswered questions but it's still a compelling true story which gets you thinking about the power of politicians and how even incompetent folk can orchestrate a cover up.

A solid film that intertwines four compelling stories loosed based on real events about the senselessness of violence, aggression and brutality, as well as people's obsession with it - which, as the film suggests, makes us not so different from animals, only perhaps worse.

Of course, the film — or, as Monáe calls it, an «emotion picture» — also heavily echoes The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's chilling 1985 novel about a conservative future society, which was adapted into a 1990 film and is now an acclaimed, Emmy - winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss as an enslaved woman compelled to serve as a child - bearer for the government's elite.

It's a small detail, but one that provides the film with a strong sense of purpose on just about every level as it weaves a compelling story about justice gone horribly wrong.

Joe answered that he was eager to see audiences get to know more about Thanos in the film, calling him a «very interesting and complex villain» with compelling (albeit psychotic) motivations.

The performances ring true, the focus is sharp and clear, and the themes are more compelling than just about anything found in the films of last year.

There's also a little talk about Kevin's person 24 - hour horror movie marathon and what films he was compelled to watch.

The latest from director Clint Eastwood is, no surprise, meticulously researched and filmed, but the story — about the guys who raised the flag at Iwo Jima and the survivors who went on a spring 1945 savings - bond tour — somehow never finds its way to a compelling narrative.

What makes the film ultimately compelling is precisely the fact that while it is based on a true story, its primary goal is not to represent historical events truthfully but rather to find aesthetic means by which to investigate how one can cinematically render visible past crimes that nevertheless are also suggestive about today without affording viewers the ability to assume the comfortable subject position of historical distance and moral superiority.

As Knight Foundation's Arts VP Dennis Scholl said, «Over the last few years, independent filmmakers in these communities have begun to use film to tell unique and compelling stories about their cities that resound with audiences around the globe.

Many have criticized the sub-plot for making the film drag in parts and ultimately taking away from what's really compelling about the story, but Dr. Fletcher's storyline is incredibly important when debating the film's ethics.

How the film's compelling star Jennifer Lawrence may feel about this sentiment is another matter, but this is a tale that, like any number of fanciful genre outings, both pulls you in with its intriguing central dramatic situation and pushes you out with some mightily far - fetched plot contrivances.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Leather Bar., a «reimagining» of the fabled 40 minutes of gay sex cut from William Friedkin's Cruising; though the film's promise to recreate all of that footage is ultimately a tease, it does pose some compelling questions about «normative» sexual behavior and sexuality on screen.

But there is something hypnotically compelling about the film.

What he fails to grasp about the movie is that what makes the film watchable — and even compelling — is that its core is so nakedly earnest.

With all eyes on the current escalating international crisis and flexing of nuclear arms, this film is compelling in its relevance to our present reality, and uses it as a platform to raise some appropriate questions about the boundaries of art and the role of cinema.

Movies about American political issues as filtered through the eyes of a foreigner can be compelling if competently written and directed, something this film fails in from the ground up.

At this point, I feel compelled to point out that, regardless of how you feel about the guy's films, Snyder has a sincere and genuine appreciation for the art of filmmaking that you have to respect.

Co-star Benicio Del Toro, Producer Molly Smith and Film Editor Joe Walker joined me on stage for a compelling behind the scenes conversation about the Lionsgate film which has turned into one of the Fall's best performing adult dramas.