Sentences with phrase «family films of the year»

It should be one of the best received family films of the year and seems perfect for children.

In fact, it's one of the funniest family films of the year.

Good reviews across the board couldn't persuade moviegoers to come, and they missed out on the best family film of the year.

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Disney had an amazing year in terms of box office, but that doesn't exclude some of their smaller hits, including this film about a chess prodigy in Uganda who tries to balance her success with responsibility to her family.

I had the privilege of watching the film while seated behind a family that included four boys, who ranged from about six to 14 years in age.

The ICA offers a robust variety of exhibitions, music, dance, film, talks, tours, family activities, and teen programming throughout the year.

But it was years before he got his mother's permission to use it and persuaded a family friend, a photographer, to give him a roll of film.

A family of compounds known as perovskites, which can be made into thin films with many promising electronic and optical properties, has been a hot research topic in recent years.

A family of four over 20 years would generate a 35 - millimeter film canister's worth of nuclear waste.

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy - drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends The Rules is a way of dating that really works!

Of his final three movies, only Frenzy (1972), which marked his return to British thrillers after 30 years, was successful, although his last film, Family Plot

Definitions of family, love and friendship all get put to the test with wit and warmth in The Kids Are All Right, one of the year's most honest and endearing films.

Following a young woman as she awkwardly makes her way through her senior year of high school, Lady Bird explores popularity, family issues, jealousy, and numerous other issues that teenagers face on a daily basis, so if you go into this film having already experienced those years of your life, I guarantee there will be a section of this movie that you can relate to.

If «The Breadwinner» were a live - action film, it would be virtually unbearable to watch, but as animation, it's not only possible, but somehow inspiring to immerse oneself in this pared - down adaptation of Deborah Ellis» well - regarded young - adult novel, about an 11 - year - old girl who must step up and care for her family after the Taliban raids her home and arrests her father (hence the title).

And at the center of the film is Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez), an impish 12 - year - old who lives in Mexico with his family of shoemakers.

Filmed over a five - year period, the two young boys navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while striving to overcome the intense pressures of family life and the realities of their Chicago streets.

The Walk finished with a domestic gross of just $ 10.1 million, making it by far the biggest flop of Zemeckis» directing career (though much less costly than the mocap family film Mars Needs Moms that he produced) and one of the biggest financial disappointments of the year.

Filmed over the course of seven years, Bitter Honey offers the first in - depth exploration of these family's lives.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Winner: Coco (MPAA: PG) This colorful story follows Miguel (voice of Anthony Gonzalez), a 10 - year - old Mexican boy who wants to do is become a musician, despite his family's wishes.

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

Theo Taplitz, in a remarkably mature, nuanced feature film debut, plays Jake, an introverted thirteen - year - old with dreams of being an artist who moves with this family from Manhattan to Brooklyn when his father inherits an apartment and a storefront there.

«Inside Out — Pixar's delightful tale of a little girl's emotions trying to steer her through a turbulent time for her family is one of the funniest and most critically - acclaimed films of the year — and certainly the most vivid depiction of developmental psychology in a movie, animated or otherwise.»

At the very beginning of the film the family sit down for dinner, Olive (Abigail Breslin) finds out that she has been given a place in this year's Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant — she lets out a scream of joy and runs around the house getting things together to take with her.

Titled «La Creatrice,» the film is based on the true account of the sculptor Camille Claudel who was injected into a mental asylum by her family, spending her last thirty years in the nut house without ever touching her art again.

As always, Pixar has created the animated movie of the year, this time going where family - aimed films rarely dare to go as it deals directly with death.

It's a great treat for the whole family and one of the best films of the year.

It's clearly the year of Isabelle Huppert... at least at AFI FEST presented by AUDI, Huppert starred in two excellent films: «Elle» a thriller by Paul Verhoeven and «Things to Come» a family drama by Mia Hansen Love.

The experimental film spans the emotional journey of a family over the course of 12 years with all the actors virtually aging in «real time» on - screen as the film chronicles the family.

The film takes place during the summer of 1985 and revolves around a shy 13 - year - old kid (Marcello Conte) who, while on family vacation in...

The 54 - year - old director left a successful run in British theater and television to tackle a striking range of genres on film: horror, romantic comedy, family drama, thriller, dark comedy, among others.

Currently one of the best - reviewed films of the year of any kind after rave reactions at Sundance, the story follows a family who unravels cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

With so few Easter family films to look to, Universal took a page from the Christmas movie handbook by withholding the home video release of Hop almost an entire year from its theatrical debut.

Where one of the strengths of Wan's «Insidious» movies was their plausible family dynamics (including Barbara Hershey's wonderfully meddlesome grandmother), «Chapter 3» so often feels like a second - tier 1980s sitcom that you spend a good deal of the film wondering if Whannell was aiming for parody (like last year's viral short, «Too Many Cooks»).

Based on the true story of the film's writers (and real - life couple), Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, this modern culture clash shows how Pakistan - born Kumail and his American girlfriend, Emily, have to overcome the expectations of his family and their 1,400 - year - old traditions.

But according to our Rodrigo Perez when he saw the film at Tribeca last year, it can sit alongside any all - star Hollywood cast, proving to be an «affecting and moving examination of family, mothers, connectedness and the ripple effect of tragic consequences.»

Look deep into the movie listings this January, past the big name awards fodder, the PT Andersons and the Rob Marshalls, the biopics and social problem films, and you'll find, in limited release, the latest picture from one of the most influential and important directors of the past 40 years, Tsui Hark, whose name remains so unknown in the US he's as likely to be identified by his personal name as his family name (for the record: he is Mr. Tsui, not Mr. Hark; pronounced «Choy — Hok»).

The animated family adventure film The Adventures of Tintin arrives first on December 23rd, followed by what appears to be his awards contender for the year, the dramatic and uplifting War Horse.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS I for India (Unrated) Sandhya Suri explores the issue of assimilation in this bittersweet memoir about her family's migration from India to England in 1965, well documented due to her father's having filmed them for the past 40 years with the help of a couple of Super 8 cameras and a tape recorder.

Reinventing the romantic - comedy genre and pushing up a notch, this terrific summer film bringing forth one of the best ensembles of the year, inhabits a strong sense of family, friendship, and of course, love.

His follow - up to the almost - VR scale of that film is a return to his home country of Mexico, where he's been working on a»70s - set family drama for years.

As usual, there was no grand unifying element linking all of the year's finest films, but there were some shared themes and motifs: grief, and coping with it; strained family bonds; the responsibility (and burden) of religious faith; and, of course, cars.

It's a tough film to watch, both because of its subject matter — a seventeen - year - old girl is tasked with rearing her younger brother and sister while trying to hunt down her drug - dealing father in order to keep her family intact — and because it's just a slow film.

Co-produced by Wes Anderson, the director responsible for another memorable dysfunctional family film in The Royal Tenenbaums, writer - director Noah Baumbach's (Mr. Jealousy, Kicking and Screaming) story is much more personal, drawing from events and situations from his teenage years in Brooklyn, to bring forth an extra element of authenticity to his piece that brings out certain truths.

The film depicts the indomitable spirit and devotion of Loung and her family as they struggle to stay together during the Khmer Rouge years.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

If you're not familiar with the film, the story centers on a bear (voiced by Ben Whishaw) who is lost at Paddington Station in London, adopted by a kind family, and then sets out in search of an explorer who inspired his family to visit London years before.

After Waiting for Happiness launched him onto the world stage in 2002 — he won the Foreign Cineaste of the Year and the Fipresci film critics» prize at Cannes — Sissako turned his lens back to Mali and to his own family courtyard in the country's capital.

Set in a picturesque Irish town, the film begins with the return to the family stead of Conor (Edward MacLiam), a 38 - year - old carpenter and father of two who's suffered a damaging stroke, leaving him severely mentally restricted.