Hopefully, he will make more great movies in the future, and Blackhat will be forgotten, or remembered only as an example of how
even talented filmmakers can occasionally turn out total crud.
Not exact matches
Depicting grief — especially one as crippling as this — is a challenge for
even the most
talented filmmaker.
Unfortunately, the
filmmakers don't know how to dramatize the travails of a supposedly
talented Latina rapper — «supposedly» because the song that's meant to prove she's a
talented and soulful performer has laughably obnoxious lyrics that boast how Maria «Filly Brown» Tonorio (newcomer Gina Rodriguez) is true to herself because she doesn't have «fake tits» or that she's so fierce that she practically has two clitorises and will
even take on «anyone with two tits.»
But I would argue that
even a long shot can emphasize character psychology, if placed in the hands of a
talented filmmaker.
I find much of his work misanthropic («Margot at the Wedding» is particularly loathsome), but I've always recognized that he's a smart writer and
talented filmmaker,
even in the films that didn't really work for me.
McDonagh proves again to be one of the most intriguing and
talented filmmakers working, and
even though this one is a tick below his last one, I anxiously await his next.
Intention aside,
even the most
talented filmmaker's commitment to a certain kind of realism can leave him precariously perched between sympathy and pity, social engagement and smug condescension.
The days of spoofs has given way to something
even more meta, whereby
talented genre
filmmakers see the funny parts of their own chosen storylines.