Sentences with phrase «cynical satire»

This postmodern self - aware style of game is all the rage these days and the concept risks becoming stale; luckily, the warm - hearted humour and optimistic outlook help Ittle Dew feel not like a cynical satire but more like a loving tribute.

The new film from director Tyler MacIntyre (Patchwork), Tragedy Girls, is a savage and cynical satire full of colorful off - color status quo commentary doubling as a paeon to slasher films and teen exploitation fare, particularly Michael Lehmann's 1988 cult classic, Heathers.

A savage and cynical satire that's full of colorful off - color status quo commentary, this joyfully fucked up little film also doubles as a paeon to slasher movies and teen exploitation fare (fans of Michael Lehmann's 1988 cult classic, Heathers take particular note, please).

But where that film was unabashedly jingoistic, Doug Liman's film is a more cynical satire of the War on Drugs and the Reagan Era.

They were not, I suspect, prepared for a dark, cynical satire about American machismo and the country's absurd obsession with guns, violence, and, to put it bluntly, obtaining satisfaction off inflicting pain on others.

The backstage maneuverings at a California beauty pageant are the subject of this often cynical satire, which has developed a strong cult following.

Never has such a completely cynical satire, about how our politics works been so funny.

Not exact matches

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

Lady Susan, a cynical story about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty; Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.

No longer working for Froben, he had taken service with the Archbishop of Mainz and sent Luther a long letter in December giving him a gleeful account of the cynical reception at Court of satires on the Roman party, and jokes about Aleander and his bonfires.

It's the most quotable film of the 2000s — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

In the hands of a cynical genius like Billy Wilder or a wily craftsman like Steven Soderbergh, Gringo might've become a satire for the ages, a mordant document that people of the future could study to understand this morally vacuous moment in the life of our republic.

It's the most quotable film of the decade — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

But its cynical poison is deadlier towards Hollywood as a piece of satire, arguably arguing against Auteurism (even though, historically speaking, it wasn't really a -LSB-...]

Based on To an Early Grave, the humorous and cynical novel by Wallace Markfield, Bye Bye Braverman is a fuzzy, unresolved, bittersweet satire, which centers on four Jewish intellectuals who, on their way to a friend's funeral, reminisce about their dear dead friend Leslie Braverman, an idealistic but minor avant - garde writer.

At times it feels like it's trying to be a romantic comedy for our cynical, burned - out - on - war age, and at others it feels like it wants to be a scathing satire like In The Loop.

With The Lobster, writer / director Yorgos Lanthimos creates a strange, cynical look at these contradictions with enough sardonic wit to consider it a satire.

Walter's work, with its flawed, likable characters, elements of satire and somewhat cynical take on modern life, can be compared to contemporaries like Sam Lipsyte and Gary Shtyengart.