Sentences with phrase «decent handful of films»

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It's a decent piece of low - budget film - making that shows what you can do with artfully built tension, skilful editing and a handful of shocking moments.

The key problem is the decidedly dull script, which throws up a handful of decent ideas, but fails to do anything interesting with them — one of the characters is obviously meant to represent the misogynistic attitudes behind the Gamergate controversy, but the film is content just to push that to its extreme and turn him into a full - on murderous scumbag, rather than explore it in any depth.

The Criterion Collection has released the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film in its new Blu - ray / DVD combo format, packaged with a handful of decent bonus features.

Claire Denis» latest, with Juliette Binoche as a mature woman juggling romantic relationships (with an all - star French cast) expanded to a handful of new cities to a decent result these days for a subtitled film, especially given its parallel home viewing alternatives.

On top of that, the film doesn't skimp on the general nastiness, with generous helpings of gore and a handful of decent shock moments, although it never comes close to the visceral terror of Hooper's classic.

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.