Not exact matches
Amn
excellent film in terms of its animated appeal, but the story loses its strength of
emotional appeal and would become easily forgotten.
The Kite Runner is a powerful, riveting,
emotional film that is a faithful adaptation from the
excellent novel.
The soundtrack is
excellent and adds to the
emotional impact the
film makes.
The Shape of Water is an
excellent film because it functions as both a parable and a delightful genre work that's by turns rollicking fun and soaringly
emotional.
That isn't to say those
emotional moments didn't still work for Pixar this year, it is just impressive to see a
film not feel the need to go down that road in order to create an
excellent movie - going experience.
Bolstered by Emma Stone's gracefully layered performance, the
film's
emotional connection comes from King's dueling inner conflicts: the responsibility of carrying the women's game forward and her growing attraction to the tour hairdresser (an
excellent Andrea Riseborough).
An isolated score track set to a graphic horror
film is a marvelous way of augmenting a
film's visual style, nuances, and the
emotional subtext, and while the DVD lacks such a feature, Christopher Lennertz»
excellent music is available on CD (from La - La Land Records, in a limited release of 3000).
Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring
excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the
emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio
films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the
film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).
The work of Song Kang - ho and crew (especially the brave young Go Ah - sung, who provides the
emotional through - line upon which the rest of the
film rests) is roundly
excellent.
It's worth seeing the
film to watch Chan deliver a powerful and unique performance, truly doing an
excellent job channeling that darkness he has so often eschewed in other movies, but «The Foreigner» never realizes that this role is its greatest strength and
emotional core, and in doing so, ends up becoming a muddled affair that isn't as engaging as it should be.