Sentences with phrase «excellent first film»

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.

Out goes director John McTiernan, who helmed the excellent first film in the series and the dreadful third one, and in comes Len Wiseman.

Not exact matches

After Heineman (whose first film was the excellent but quite different «Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare») spent months winning trust, he spent a similar amount of time filming and observing.

The first disc contains the definitive version of the film, no matter what Scott says, along with the excellent commentary.

I have spent many years defending Snyder, who I think is a first rate visual stylist (and who conjures up some excellent images in this film), but even I have to put down my sword.

I first saw the beautiful Giovanna Mezzogiorno in «Love in the Time of Cholera» where she was excellent so I decided to see this film because of that.

With or without filmmaking tricks, the momentum of the first half of the film leading up to the beginning of the Games is truly excellent.

This isn't to say that Robbie's first hour is flat by any means, it says at a consistently excellent level in the film from start to finish.

Hong Kong writer - director Wong Kar - wai's «Chungking Express» is hip and entertaining... Technically, the film is first - rate, while all the principal performers are excellent.

Despite some intermittent pacing issues and some horrendous sound quality problems during the first 30 minutes, the film delivers on all other fronts, with superb performances from its excellent ensemble cast (especially protagonist Cliff Curtis) and a nuanced script that tackles its complex story line on multiple levels.

First the 3D against my initial pre-conceptions was excellent the best 3D i've ever seen in a film and is by a huge margin the best thing the film has going for itself.

The excellent child actors carry this film (there is only one adult's face visible for the first 90 minutes), and the E.T. doll was wonderfully convincing for that time and still works today.

The first hour of the film was excellent but the climax was pretty weak (sinfully teasing at an epic airplane fleet battle that never takes place) and the closing epilogue narration felt extremely rushed (also contains a gimmicky «The end?»

Like the first film, Insurgent came with an excellent transfer.

With excellent performances from his cast (especially his first timers), a palpable sense of wonder and dread, as well as an overarching valentine to nostalgia and the magic of the movies, Abrams is able to overcome a mixed bag of a script and deliver a film that manages to live up to the hype.

Given what we saw in the film's excellent first trailer, it's safe to say del Toro isn't pulling any punches.

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.

The highlight of the excellent main cast is Howard, who Shyamalan eventually asks to carry his film, a task she succeeds gamely with in her first leading role.

When his first English - language film, 2003's Fear X with John Turturro, failed at the box office, Refn's company fell into bankruptcy, forcing him to make two more excellent Pusher films, 2004's Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands and 2005's Pusher III: I'm The Angel Of Death, to climb out of debt.

Assault on Precinct 13 is a first - rate action film that looks and sounds excellent on this new Blu - Ray release.

The first Iron Man film was excellent and because it was it allowed the universe to expand slowly into something more.

Having been stuck on the same arcane, decidedly non-commercial project for the past decade, Josh feels an entire career's worth of pride and self - doubt come bubbling to the surface as Jamie's first film enjoys instantaneous payoff — and worse, garners the approval of Cornelia's father, the renowned documentarian Leslie Breitbart (an excellent Charles Grodin).

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

Wan displays ample restraint in the first half of the film easing audiences into the possessed house along with the lovable and unsuspecting family parented by the excellent Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor.

Cannes 2018: The first film, «Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure,» was released in 1989, and a sequel followed two years later

Though it retains the horror elements of the first film, Cameron's quasi-war flick builds on that with some excellent action sequences and the introduction of an even cooler villain with the Alien Queen.

The fifth feature from About Elly writer / director Asghar Farhadi, and the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival (as well as earning best actor and actress awards for the excellent ensemble cast at the same event), A Separation tells a personal tale rampant with politics.

Abrams roped in the ridiculously talented Benedict Cumberbatch to portray the film's mystery villain, and the first two teaser trailers did an excellent job of making May 17th feel like a world away.

Arriving the same year American Spike Lee would remake his seminal Oldboy, Park Chan Wook's highly anticipated first English - language feature proved a kind of poetic statement of call - and - response to the tendency for North American cinema to re-make excellent films not just more linguistically palatable, but better while they're at it.

Exploring the supporting characters from the first film is enjoyable and the film could have been an excellent bromance tale.

Errol Flynn is excellent in this film, based on a true story, about how James J Corbett benefited from the advent of the Queensberry Rules to become one of the first heavyweight champions of the world.

Broken, which had its Irish premiere on the first night of the recent JDIFF festival, set a very high standard for the excellent run of films shown this year.

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).

Following a gay married soccer mom who receives the titular head injury, loses the passion in her relationship, and becomes a prostitute, it picked up excellent reviews (Scott Foundas said the film «is why we have a Sundance in the first place») and was snapped up by the Weinstein Company «s new VOD shingle Radius for distribution.

Academy Award winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, writer of such films as the excellent Steve Jobs, The Social Network, Moneyball, and the acclaimed television series The West Wing tries his hand for the first time at directing a script he adapted titled Molly's Game.

The first film was excellent.

However, just as it's a predictable response that the majority of people who saw Up were viscerally impacted by the first 10 minutes, the reaction to the film as a whole has also become slightly stereotypical, summed up as follows: the so - called «Married Life» montage, in which we watch the lead character, Carl Fredricksen, and his wife, Ellie, as they live their lives over multiple decades, culminating in her death at an old age, is excellent.

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).

Voice acting is excellent, and that the film can maintain the audience's interest with next to no dialogue in its first act is a feather in its cap.

I've only seen Hush and Ouija 2 thus far — it looks like Before I Wake has been delayed yet again — but I can say that when taken with his first two films, the moody Absentia and the excellent Oculus, Flanagan is already at the forefront of the new American horror revolution.

Catching Fire continues to benefit from the excellent casting choices of the first film; in addition to Sutherland, the work of Elizabeth Banks and Stanley Tucci is another highlight.

This excellent film is a lot of things — a valentine to the harebrained fringes of showbiz, a buddy comedy about two kindred souls taking a bite out of Los Angeles, the first persuasive argument that Dave Franco might have a future in this «acting» racket — but foremost among them, it's an inquisition into the enigma that is Tommy Wiseau.

Even though it features some excellent performances and a great story, Being Flynn isn't without its faults most notably the pacing which leaves the film dragging through the second act when Jonathan comes into the shelter for the first time.

Unspooling some thirty years after the first film, Ryan Gosling is K, a replicant who hunts rogue replicants and, like Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford, excellent in his best role in decades) before him, retires his quarry using deadly means.

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.

It of course goes much like the first film does, with an ending that is a lot like the first, minus the excellent and heartfelt performance.

Though Keach is excellent and the supporting cast first - rate, the film suffers from its theatricality.

Nonetheless, this film (and the others) are presented on DVD with first - rate anamorphic widescreen and excellent sound.

An excellent supporting cast include Peter Sarsgaard as Bobby, Greta Gerwig as Jackie's confidant Nancy (the first film I've seen Gerwig in where she wasn't annoyingly OTT in every scene) and John Hurt in a role made all the more touching by is recent departure from us.

Studio Ponoc's first film is based on «The Little Broomstick» by Mary Stewart and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who helmed the excellent «When Marnie Was There.»