Sentences with phrase «decent film work»

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Churches need to foster discussions of character by using films or case studies that present difficult choices in work or relationships, situations in which people must ask themselves, «What does it mean to do the honest, decent thing here?»

We get a decent look at some historical issues, though «Past» tends to feel a little self - congratulatory, as the piece works hard to remind us how accurate the film is.

The acting is decent at best and the scares are good enough, but the film works because it is entertaining and is meant to be a fun film to watch.

David Mackenzie — «Starred Up» Scottish helmer David Mackenzie is easily the most experienced name on this list: his latest is actually his eighth film as director, and his previous work has included major movie stars like Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell and Ashton Kutcher in films like «Young Adam,» «Hallam Foe,» «Spread» and «Perfect Sense,» some of which were decent, some of which weren't.

On one level it works as an entertaining genre film, but it is also a decent character study.

The film is at its best pre-interval, when director Mohit Suri stages some creepy sequences free of the burden of exposition; when he and writer Shagutta Ratique have to deliver some explanations in the second half, the decent performances by Ranaut and Hashmi are crushed under the weight of overly contrived plotting and some distractingly lackluster (if still better than the first film's) effects work.

Jake and Michael Pena are terrific together and if they had hired decent actors as the gang members and just shot it like a normal film it might have worked.

Overall, it's an amiable film that will entertain the kids on DVD for years to come, but doesn't have much else on offer, and seems to prove yet again that Pixar are the only guys currently at work who know how to make a decent animation.

The question mark here is director John Wells, a TV veteran (who ran «E.R.» and «The West Wing,» among others) who made his film debut a few years back with «The Company Men,» a decent, but hardly transcendent piece of work.

Collaborating for the second time after first working together on Munich (2005), director Steven Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner have made a decent film that nevertheless feels overly burdened by the responsibility of depicting historical detail.

Although I think I possibly needed to suspend my disbelief a little too often, it was still a relatively enjoyable film, with a decent amount of grit, intrigue, and interest and generally believable work by all actors.

The performances are all great, the cinematography is workmanlike but generally decent (though the Scorsese - y flourishes often don't work because, well, it feels like worse Scorsese), but the film has no presence or lasting impact.

He is a decent actor who delivers great performances in films no one sees and mediocre work in major films.

I've grown accustomed to watching a perfectly decent film, acknowledge what works in it and what does not, but to have no passionate or physical reaction.

On the plus side, it's a Working Title production; on the minus, it's directed by Brian Helgeland, who has yet to make a halfway decent film...

The villain played by Benedict Cumberbatch brings intensity to the film but has barely anything decent to work with beyond the mundane intricacies of a vague revenge plot and «you killed my blah blah blah».

The film (based on Amy Fox «s play) picked up decent notices, but was mostly ignored on release, but nevertheless, it managed to get Terrio more screenwriting work, even though he'd only contributed additional material to «Heights» (making «Argo» his first proper screenwriting credit).

Director Tom Harper has a great location (the same old rickety house where the first film was set) and some decent talent to work with.

This is a decent - ish action film that, while it starts more strongly than it ends, nonetheless works fairly well throughout, thanks to several fine performances and a handful of sequences — primarily, and paradoxically, non-action scenes — that achieve considerable atmospheric and / or tonal success.

The 1080p transfer is decent giving the bland colors and boring locations that this film had to work with.

Everyone at Marvel Studios has a lot of work to do if they really want to elevate these films beyond decent fan service.

The list of prominent bicyclists in film history includes misfit teens (Napoleon Dynamite), eccentric Einstein - like scientists (the license-less Jeff Goldblum character in Independence Day, in which the bike is, admittedly, shown as a pretty decent way to escape Manhattan), vaguely countercultural types (Mark Wahlberg's character in I Heart Huckabees, or Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men) perpetual man - children (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure), and people who otherwise refuse to grow up or are out of touch with real life and the working world.