Sentences with phrase «critical favorite»

And with the film skipping the festival circuit entirely, the signs don't appear to indicate it'll be a particular critical favorite.

Clooney is joined in the film by a who's who of critical favorites including Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright.

Winter and spring will see the much - anticipated final season of «Lost,» new cable shows from the creators of «The Wire,» «Boomtown,» and «Battlestar Galactica,» and the return of critical favorites like «Breaking Bad,» «Big Love,» and «Damages» — plus reality show competition favorites like «American Idol,» «Survivor» (in a special all - star edition) and the Winter Olympics.

Surprisingly missing from the list is the box office and critical favorite from earlier last year, «Lee Daniels The Butler,» which was shut out of every category it was eligible for.

No less expected was the awarding of Best Actor to Timothy Spall, whose emphatic grunts as landscape painter J.M.W. Turner made Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner an early critical favorite of the fest.

Daredevil was an instant critical favorite, and has been a hit among comic fans.

Fellow critical favorite Manchester by the Sea also scored big with the HFPA.

And while both are inexpensive indie films, «Rachel Getting Married» is enjoying much greater success... the result of which, I'm sure, is the hyperbolic difference in the familiarity critics have with the two directors — «Rachel» has been seen as a return to form for critical favorite Jonathan Demme, while «SherryBaby» merely offered a newcomer in Laurie Collyer.

It's also a list that is notably missing two high - profile, high - pedigree critical favorites: Brett Morgen's «Jane» and Matthew Heineman's «City of Ghosts.»

Whether Weisz can break into the crowded Best Actress field of the Oscars is still in doubt, but the NYFCC honor over front - runners Jessica Chastain («Zero Dark Thirty») and Jennifer Lawrence («Silver Linings Playbook») or even critical favorite Emanuelle Riva («Amour») gets her name in the mix.

In recent years this has been especially true in the supporting categories where critical favorites like Patricia Arquette, J.K. Simmons, and Mahershala Ali all but had their Oscar statues pre-engraved for them.

We talked to director Adam McKay about how «Step Brothers» — initially decried as the downfall of American culture — has become a not - so - secret critical favorite.

In 2005, his sophomore effort L'esquive — a raw, direct exploration of teenage sexual politics in the banlieues (the French suburban hoods) by way of eighteenth century playwright Marivaux - unexpectedly trumped critical favorite Kings and Queen and populist heavyweights A Very Long Engagement and Oscar nominee The Chorus at the César Awards, winning Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

The our - right critical favorite is Un Prophet so it seems unlikely it will be dethroned in the coming days.

He went on to boxoffice success by helming Fantastic Voyage (1966), Doctor Doolittle (1967) and Soylent Green (1973) not to mention critical favorites Compulsion (1959), The Boston Strangler (1968) and 10 Rillington Place (1971).

The box office hit and critical favorite took home five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Jean Dujardin and Best Score for Ludovic Bource.

And don't even think about missing Otto Preminger's French critical favorite «Angel Face «(one of Jean - Luc Godard's picks for his all - time Best American Talkies list).

At Fantastic Fest, I had the chance to sit down with E.L. Katz, director of the A is for Amateur segment of ABCs of Death 2 and the 2013 cult / critical favorite Cheap Thrills.

She is not a fan of some of the «big books» of the year, including critical favorite Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies, Jonathan Franzen's literally big 500 - plus page Purity or Garth Risk Hallberg's even bigger City on Fire.

Not sure about Anarchy Reigns even though it comes from Platinum Games, makers of such critical favorites as Vanquish and Bayonetta?

The curators are at work on exhibitions with critical favorites the Bernadette Corporation and Chris Kraus.

It nabbed a slot over the highly touted German film In the Fade, which earned Diane Kruger the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, and edged out critical favorites from Israel (Foxtrot) and Senegal (Felicite).

The 2005 album (which was released on the smaller Floodgate Records) remained a critical favorite, and that's what helped the band get picked up by a major label.

The record was a critical favorite and commercial success, and was followed up by 2015's I Love You, Honeybear, a meditation on Tillman's real life as a new husband, discovering the trappings, burdens and benefits of love and domesticated modern life.

Director Sally Potter announced her presence on the independent film scene with 1992's daring Orlando, but the 20 years since have passed without another critical favorite.

But still, the Wise version has been a critical favorite since it was made.

Even after «The King's Speech» surprised at the Producers» Guild Awards and took a dozen Oscar nominations, I held on to the notion that critical favorite «The Social Network,» a film more in line with the Academy's recent choices, would emerge victorious on Oscar night.

Under Waintrop, Directors» Fortnight has unveiled some of the most talked - about of titles in any Cannes section, whether Houda Benyamina's «Divines» in 2016, Sean Baker's «Florida Project» last year, or this year's opener and critical favorite, Ciro Guerra's «Birds of a Passage,» a desert mobster saga which delivers a premonitory take on how the drug trade consolidated in and ended up destroying Colombia.

He's done a few shorts, and two documentaries, but his three feature films so far — the comedy «The Ape,» the Sal Mineo biopic «Sal,» and Hart Crane tale «The Broken Tower» — haven't exactly become big hits or critical favorites.

He's been something of a critical favorite for a while now, but after making the hugely acclaimed «Summer Hours» and the TV miniseries / theatrical marathon «Carlos» within a few years of each other, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has firmly cemented himself as one of the more exciting directors in world cinema.

The jury, which was headed by director Pedro Almodovar, recognized most of the critical favorites at this year's festival.

The second of Marvel's ABC dramas, while a critical favorite, was never a ratings breakthrough.

The English - language ghost story set in the Parisian fashion scene — which is already an intriguing and bizarre logline — stars Kristen Stewart who has successfully walked away from her Twilight image and emerged as a critical favorite.

After #OscarsSoWhite, Birth of a Nation was a critical favorite before a fall from grace.

I suppose that the studios have reasons for their releasing patterns, but it's beyond me why so many major New Releases — from Oscar nominees and critical favorites to mainstream successes to notable foreign dramas — are getting poured into the DVD marketplace on March 10.

Moonlight feels a bit like Sideways; a critical favorite that beat the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner at SAG.

They've never been critical favorites, but remember when Adam Sandler movies used to be kind of a big deal?

If we assume this is more Dallas Buyers Club than Wild, Vallee should be giving us a critical favorite and a player to really keep an eye on.

Happily, things are going much better for Scott than for his character these days: Party Down, which starts its second season April 23, is a critical favorite, and his growing profile has led to a role on the hit NBC sitcom Parks And Recreation, beginning this season and extending into the next.

The second stage of the process is delegated to the critics circle lists, where critics announce individual «10 Best» lists and vote in local and national groups as marketing budgets grow for critical favorites.

The critical favorite and awards show darling didn't take home any prizes at the SAG Awards — with Moss getting dethroned by Foy, and ensemble going to «This Is Us.»

Writer - producer MacFarlane has never been a critical favorite, although he has been riding high with «Family Guy» and the feature hit «Ted.»