Sentences with phrase «excellent film since»

It fits in nicely with his recent output, all of which have been good to very good, although I wager he hasn't done a truly excellent film since MUNICH.

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He'll be angling for his first nomination since «Brokeback Mountain» after turning out excellent work in films like «Prisoners,» «Enemy» and «Nightcrawler» in recent years.

He's a few decades out from being «The kid in Billy Elliot,» and he's done a lot of good acting since that excellent first film.

While his looks haven't changed much since the «Percy Jackson» films or the excellent The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lerman shines here as the working class Newark Jewish boy, smothered by his parents, and as naïve to the world as he is academically gifted.

A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).

Even «Crash,» a film I haven't seen since 2005 but made an excellent impression the first time I saw it.

Barring his excellent miniseries take on «Mildred Pierce,» Todd Haynes hasn't released a feature film since 2007's experimental Bob Dylan biopic, «I'm Not There.»

The ensemble does most of the film's heavy lifting, since the unevenness of the script impacts Babbit's direction as well (it's surprising to see how lackluster her direction can be at times, considering her excellent work on television over the years).

Margin Call arguably has the edge over that solid film, though, since it not only boasts an excellent main and supporting cast, but the stakes are also much higher this time around.

The film received excellent reviews (including our own), and while many assumed that legal issues would prevent it from ever getting distribution, experts have since suggested that everything Moore does falls within fair use.

Tommy Lee Jones leads an excellent cast in In the Electric Mist, Bertrand Tavernier's first English - language film since 1986's Round Midnight (a film which will always hold a special place in the heart of film music fans).

Being an English major, I studied Thomas Hardy's «Far From the Madding Crowd» several times and have seen film versions of it since, including Julie Christie's excellent take on the tale and the variation on it in «Tamara Drewe».

Release Date: Since her excellent 2010 debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of projects and platforms (including the short film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York Film Festival).

Alfonso Cuaron hasn't directed a mainstream feature length film since 2006's excellent CHILDREN OF MEN, so we're very happy to see the talented director...

But those in the know have been keeping tabs on Nichols since his breakout sophomore effort, the provocative apocalypse tale Take Shelter, and over these three films (also including his debut, Shotgun Stories, and the moderately successful and excellent Mud), he has established himself as a strong Southern voice on the independent scene, the sort of director who makes you sit up and take notice whenever he announces a new project.

But (as Scorsese himself acknowledges) CinemaScore has existed since the 1970s, giving Fs to excellent, if similarly difficult - to - summarize films like Jane Campion's In the Cut or Steven Soderbergh's Solaris (along with genuine bombs like I Know Who Killed Me or Disaster Movie).

The Oliver Hirschbiegel film has since had to deal with becoming something of a meme, but the actual movie is excellent and worthy of a watch if one has not seen it already.

2017 was an excellent year for film, probably the best since 2013.

Another excellent Coen brother film, The Big Lebowski has amassed an enormous cult following and has only gained in popularity since its 1998 release date.

Though it is by no means the first film to have as its center a black superhero (as BAMcinématek's excellent series demonstrated), it is the first of note since the rise of the juggernaut known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2009.

Part of the surprise is the beauty of the film since it is directed by John Curran, who has no directing credits to his name since 1995's excellent Babe, the Pig.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

While the films between The Lion King and Tarzan were all excellent, Tarzan was the first film since the former to have that certain Disney magic to it.

The company said trading since the end of last year has been «excellent» and it is hoping that films of some of its books, including Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang and Eat, Pray, Love, starring Julia Roberts, will help boost sales.