Sentences with phrase «early reviews of the film»

As The A.V. Club's own Jesse Hassenger says in his early review of the film, Love, Simon is touching in its heartfelt progressivism, but can't quite overcome the flimsiness of its creative team's TV origins, resulting in a sweet but ultimately less than nourishing afternoon snack of a film.

The early reviews of the film have been highly positive.

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And despite less - than - enthused early reviews, Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has garnered heightened anticipation and excitement over the past few months of lavish themed parties, soundtrack leaks and previews and even special edition fashion lines in the film's honor.

Blind Date (one of the most popular syndicated dating shows on TV) is a show in which a guy and a girl hook up and go around town to see if they are right [Blind Gossip] This film from earlier this century didn't get good reviews, but it does have a memorable name... and it did produce some good

Quentin Tarantino started the hype machine by anointing it his favorite film of 2013, and good early reviews have followed for Ahron Keshales» Big Bad Wolves.

I think it would be a great idea to have more diversity of content in this site (an early review of Beloved was a pleasant surprise some weeks ago) but right now the balance is definitely in favor of sci - fi, fantasy, horror, action, and some crime films created for a demographic probably best described as «geek».

To me, this review and the last few comments seem like a complete misreading of the film - based, as one earlier commentator stated, on Haneke's earlier work and his particular way of making movies, rather than the actual movie at hand and its context.

The buzz has been building since Sundance, and early reviews for Before Midnight have been great (the current Metascore is 99), but if you want to avoid any spoilers before the film's May 24th release, stop now, because the first trailer for the film can't help but reveal a few things that fans of the series might not want to know.

Earlier this year I had posted a review of Mark Wahlberg's then - latest film, the Rupert Wyatt - directed drama The Gambler.

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.

The trailer indicates that Ridley's film is as much a work of Impressionism about Hendrix's experience performing as part of the 1960s London music scene as anything else - a sentiment backed up by the early reviews, with the Seattle Times» Moira Macdonald calling the movie «a mood piece, not a biopic» in her overall positive critique.

They may not have seen the film yet, but they were tired of critics slating their beloved universe after not - so - nice reviews for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice earlier this year.

This writer was lucky enough to catch the film early at Comic - Con last month (read my glowing review here), and coming fresh off a double feature of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz at The Music Box Theatre in Chicago, I can't wait to see it again.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

Lucy, reviewed: Scarlett Johansson stars in early contender for nuttiest action film of the year

Owen Gleiberman awarded the film a D - grade in one of Entertainment Weekly's earliest reviews.

The film won the Golden Lion (the top prize) in Venice last year, but while early reviews have been very good, some critics have claimed it doesn't quite reach the heights of the first two films.

I Saw the Light had been set for a fall debut in lieu of an Oscar campaign, but with early reviews firmly in the negative column, Sony Pictures Classics has moved the film away from awards season.

It received a surprise premiere at the Overlook film festival earlier this month and was greeted with a set of rapturous reviews which, like its superbly assembled trailers, suggest one of the scariest films of the summer.

The National Board of Review, which owes much of its visibility to its place early on the awards calendar, consists not of film critics but of «knowledgeable film enthusiasts and professionals, academics, young filmmakers and students» in the New York area.

Early reviews from a private screening of Zack Snyder's «Sucker Punch» agree on the stunning visuals, but disagree on the overall film.

Here is my review of the film from earlier this summer.

Black Panther has arrived, and we are thrilled to get to give a no - spoiler review of this amazing film, along with the other flicks to be seen in theaters this week: Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Samson, Early Man and The Female Brain.

Gus Van Sant's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot was one such film, earning warm early reviews; the biopic about artist John Callahan stars Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara, a triple axel of awards - bait talent.

While I haven't had the chance to see this film yet, I've heard great things and seen lots of great reviews since it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

A film that seemed to be in a lot of trouble, with well - publicised reshoots, World War Z may not have turned out so badly after all, based on the early reviews.

Putting aside the early negative reviews out of last year's Cannes Film Festival, the cast and talent involved in The Sea of Trees is reason enough to see the film.

Look at the collected reviews of Pauline Kael since the early 70s, when academic film study in the U.S. was just getting started, and you'll be hard put to find a shred of evidence in more than two decades of energetic writing that such studies existed at all.

The world - wide, overwhelmingly ecstatic early reviews don't do his work justice, and I'm not quite sure anything besides multiple viewings might allow film fans of any kind to understand just how improbably dastardly perfect Fury Road is.

The early reviews of director Craig Zobel's Z for Zachariah have been largely positive, describing the film as a low - key movie about the fragile bonds of trust and how they can be tangled by jealousy and contempt.

Though its summer release date is pretty ballsy for a movie that would have benefited from an early fall awards push, the studio's confidence in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» is not only encouraging, but suggests that the rave reviews coming out of Park City wasn't just the usual film festival hyperbole.

But, as one of the most buzzed about films going into Toronto, «August: Osage County» garnered some positive early reviews.

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.»

You could take these earlier films, like the new one, as brilliant, unorthodox slide lectures, but they also work as poignant posthumous extensions of the friendships they recount and the careers they review.

(from full review) Katz's third feature disarmingly continues the shuffling sense of 20 - something statelessness examined in his earlier films, but makes some adventurous conceptual tweaks to the formula.

Over the past week or so, I had the following film pieces posted at Hammer to Nail: reviews of Criterion Blu - rays of Multiple Maniacs and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; reviews of new theatrical releases Lucky and We're Still Together; and a two - part interview with director Peter Bratt and subject Dolores Huerta, of the new documentary Dolores (reviewed earlier).

The Oscar contender starring Saoirse Ronan was «certified fresh» with a 100 percent score earlier this month, but now officially reigns over all other films on the website with 165 reviews (Toy Story 2 has a score of 100 percent, with 163 reviews).

If you read the review earlier this week, Robin Wright delivers the performance of her career in The Congress, an animation and live - action hybrid that is fully realized and completely spellbinding as one of the year's best films.

/ Film contributor Steven Prokopy saw this film at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and reviewed it for us, calling it a «fresh reminder» of Granik's considerable talent as a storyteller:

Went to see it based on the earlier positive review but my opinion of the film falls more in line with this one.

The film, about the titular champion ice skater who later embroiled herself in a plot to break the leg of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, world - premiered at TIFF earlier this month to enthusiastic reviews from movie critics, with particular praise — and Oscar buzz — brewing for Robbie and Allison Janney, who plays Harding's mother, LaVonda Golden.

Earlier today, Ryan Reynolds talked to the Niagara Falls Review (via ComicBook.com) about the recent reaction to the leaked test footage of the Deadpool feature film saying:

We will be bringing you our very own Emma's review of the film, which has an earlier UK release date of 26th April, at midnight (UK time) tonight so make sure to keep it THN.

And if the Steve Jobs early buzz from reviews and reactions following the film are any indicator, this team of talent has delivered an intense, powerful, home run of a biopic that finally paints a portrait of Steve Jobs that's worth hanging on the wall.

In that review, I also mentioned several of his early films that got him to this point, including the chilling «Audition» and another amazing samurai flick entitled «13 Assassins.»

Earlier this year, Joel Edgerton addressed the bad reviews of his Netflix original movie Bright, arguing that David Ayer's L.A. - set racial allegory — in which he played a soulful Orc trying to retrieve a magic wand — needed to be «reviewed by public opinion rather than through the highbrow prism of film criticism.»

Early reviews of Brooklyn have been mostly strong, with some comparing the film's mix of comedy, drama and romance against the backdrop of an immigrant's story to In America.

Franco bought the rights to the book back in early 2014, and confessed to being a fan of the film in his Vice review of The Room and its ensuing book.

To put it another way, while I'm more than sympathetic to Jonathan's desire to read Karen Ordahl Kupperman's book about early America before weighing in on The New World (I speak as one who read four different books about feudal Japan before writing my review of The Last Samurai a few years back), I think it's also essential to keep in mind the fact that most audiences who see the film will come to it with very little, if any, historical background, and that to a certain extent the film even asks to be read ahistorically.

Like Valentine's Day in 2010 and New Year's Eve in 2011, prescription his latest film features a star - studded cast, approved multiple story - lines and sitcom - style comedy and like the feedback of those earlier films, the Mother's Day reviews have not been kind.