Sentences with phrase «critical review of a film»

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It was a major shift — and one that took a while to catch on; first used with The Princess and the Frog, a well - reviewed film with disappointing sales, it began to catch hold with Tangled (2010) and Wreck - it - Ralph (2012), each of which outperformed financial and critical expectations.

A forensic assessment of the filmed recordings by father and son team (Hypothetical Premier League) of every match played in the Premiership and the critical decisions made by referees shows that Arsenal would have finished top of the League (2 points more than they got) and Leicester should have been 2nd (9 points less than they got)-- if the use of video evidence had been used to review important decisions.

While star Johnny Depp's singing earned mixed reviews — and the movie dropped or shortened some of Sondheim's songs — the film as a whole received plenty of critical acclaim as well as a Golden Globe for best picture (with Depp himself earning an Oscar nomination for his performance).

The film did only a fraction of the business of, say, the previous year's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, but it did earn a few favorable reviews even as it repulsed critics such as Roger Ebert.Thereafter, Fleming's career waxed extremely uneven from a critical standpoint, though his grosses remained generally favorable throughout and the projects kept rolling in.

Alone among his critical colleagues who became filmmakers, he insisted from the beginning that his writing and filmmaking were essentially alternate vehicles for the same discourse; his early movies functioned as film criticism the same way his reviews anticipated much of his filmmaking.

Vittorio Storaro comments at some length on the color symbolism in Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which he shot, demonstrating more critical insight into how the film works and what it's about than we are likely to find in reviews, and there are similarly revealing commentaries from Michael Chapman about the iconographic and stylistic sources of Raging Bull (Life magazine and the photographs of Weegee) and from Hall about the role played by chance in the lighting of a scene from In Cold Blood, where the shadows of raindrops appear to be running down Robert Blake's face.

Granted, some of this has been generated by Malick, and the promotional efforts for the film, but, frankly, many big name, and lesser name critics, have simply imbued and misconstrued their own critical lack and imaginative dead rot into their reviews, and missed the boat on this film, from some of its most basic elements through its more nuanced themes and evocations.

Our reviews aim for critical analysis of film's many aesthetics while talent interviews offer insight into the filmmaking process.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

«I think there was a little bit of extra critical hate towards it because it's changing the landscape of the movie business,» he said, «but I think «Bright» is maybe a movie that needs to be reviewed by public opinion rather than viewed through the highbrow prism of film criticism.»

Full confession time: Newsarama didn't get to see Ragnarok until a press screening mid last week, days after the initial wave of reviews started to surface and it became readily apparent the film was another MCU critical hit.

People should be going to sites like MetaCritic and Rotten Tomatoes, but not for critical consensus, rather for easy access to the reviews that are one part of the life blood of critical discussion of film.

I'm pleased to find that this film has held up well for me on each subsequent viewing from immediate revisitation in the summer of 2002 to another look in July 2004 to a review of the tardy 20th Anniversary Edition DVD in early 2009 and, now at my most critical state to date, in the summer of 2013 when Oliver & Company makes its Blu - ray debut in a 25th Anniversary Edition Blu - ray + DVD combo pack alongside two of the studio's less esteemed, sequel-less «animated classics.»

As the movie opened to rave reviews across the country today, Amitabh Bachchan, the veteran Bollywood actor who led criticism of the film, said he had apologised to Boyle following what he said was media misinterpretation of apparently critical comments he made on his blog.

On the other hand, with a Metacritic score of 49/100, the film was always going to have to overcome some stinging critical rebukes, including the Guardian's two - star review.

If you are looking for more information related to the X-Men franchise spinoff, then head over to our full review, as well as our review roundup, to get a better sense of the film's critical consensus!

It's hard to find a horror movie with overwhelmingly favorable critical marks, so congratulations for finding It Follows, one of 2015's best - reviewed films in any genre.

Yet his new film Get Out is currently sitting at a whopping 100 % fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 73 critical reviews, at least at the time of this writing.

Nightcrawler (Oct. 31 Wide): Reviews have been quick to note that this movie might end up being too weird and dark for AMPAS, but the film was still one of the bigger critical breakouts of TIFF this year, and it'll likely be one of the more acclaimed wide releases opening this month.

In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Scarlett Johansson's best - reviewed films.

Open Road Films is gearing up for the November 6 release of «Spotlight» with a new television spot that highlights the film's great ensemble cast and its even greater critical reviews.

Speaking of A24's Lady Bird, the huge critical success (100 % on Rotten Tomatoes with 160 reviews), the coming of age film starring two - time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan now sits at $ 8.1 M after 22 days.

But recently the site has become a more fractious battleground, where the professional critical consensus — a film's final Tomatometer score is determined by assessing reviews from a pool of vetted critics — meets public opinion in the form of crowdsourced audience reactions.

All in all, Cassandra's Dream is an outstanding and acidic portrait of family and crime, and one that was shamefully dismissed, when not neglected, by the idiotic elitists that populate the critical consensus that dominates film reviewing.

As the blogger and founder of Reel Talk Online, I write film reviews, news and features that bridge the gap between critical and audience response, and engage readers through honest, sometimes snarky commentary that explores core themes of film, with an emphasis on the collision of politics and entertainment.

Critical reception (if any): As of right now there are no reviews available for the film.

This phenomenon we might call the Vera Drake syndrome, named after the relentlessly poignant and almost unwatchable Mike Leigh film that, in a case of mass critical psychosis, got good reviews in 2004 from almost everybody, including me.

A common writing assignment is a critical review or analysis of films.