Sentences with phrase «emotionally powerful films»

The realness of Jenkins script combined with two tour - de-force performances from Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn makes Private Life one of the most emotionally powerful films to come out of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

The film is without a doubt one of the most emotionally powerful films with this level of grim violence that I've ever seen.

Not exact matches

This may be Alvarez's greatest accomplishment with the film — getting the kind of emotionally potent performances that make it a powerful and visceral film to watch.

Critic Consensus: Visually dazzling and emotionally resonant, Slumdog Millionaire is a film that's both entertaining and powerful.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, one of America's most accomplished modern - era directors, the film is both technically and emotionally powerful, rudely propelling its audience into the sheer nightmare of the war arena in order to shock it out of its customarily passive role and engender some level of emotional identification with its key characters.

There is no sentimentality and this finely acted film is underplayed emotionally and this is very powerful and haunting.

The upcoming film from the director of Blue Valentine, which also stars Ryan Gosling, looks as if he has another emotionally powerful story on his hands.

David O. Russell directs a film with unconventional characters to create something funny, heartfelt, and at times, emotionally powerful.

The film has an overall gritty feel, which adds to the realism, and some of the scenes with Billy and Leila are surprising and emotionally powerful.

A film that remains a masterpiece even with its various minor flaws, Cast Away is an engaging and emotionally powerful tale of the power of the human spirit and our will to survive.

She tricks us into believing this is an intimate story about a specific character, time, and place until the culmination of the laughter and the tears makes you realize it's actually a grand epic that is as universal, relatable and emotionally powerful as any story of mothers and daughters that has ever been put on film,» said Focus Chairman Peter Kujawski in the news release.

The Elephant King story, which is related in chunks throughout the film, too often disrupts the flow of the main story, and its ultimate purpose — to help explain the whereabouts of Parvana's missing older brother — feels surprisingly arbitrary for what should be an emotionally powerful moment.

Also, it must be stated that Woodley and Teller has terrific on - screen chemistry that make some scenes within the film so emotionally powerful and even caused several audience members to weep like little babies.

The most emotionally powerful scenes in the film centre around performances in medium shots: Thelma and her crush Anja looking out at Oslo from a balcony; Thelma resting her head on her father's shoulder; Thelma and Anja lying in bed together in the morning light.

The film is quietly powerful, emotionally sharp, and tackles the age old question that we'll always struggle with, «What now?»

Three powerful, emotionally charged films linked by a recurring motif: the random suddenness with which calamity can enter lives, alter them forever, and yet not necessarily destroy them.

That's not to say that «The Captive» is a total failure, but when compared to Denis Villeneuve's similarly themed «Prisoners,» it lacks the cutting edge that made that film such a gripping and emotionally powerful child abduction thriller.

Excluding the powerful visuals and narration of Resnais's original film, she deconstructs Eisler's soundtrack to draw from its structure the emotionally resonant spaces between sounds.