Sentences with phrase «fascinating film»

An all around fascinating film from the opening scene to the end.

Join film critic Betty Jo Tucker, a confirmed movie addict, as she rants and raves about all things cinematic with co-host Jazz Shaw, producer Nikki Starr and noted movie critics — plus lots of fascinating film folks.

Few have had as varied and rich a career as Jacques Perrin, whose resume includes appearing in and co-producing the classic political thriller Z for Costa - Gavras, making an extended cameo in the French potboiler THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, and making fascinating films in homage to the natural world.

This pointed moment helps set up the central conflict in what's easily Schrader's best and most fascinating film in many years.

«The Latest Sun is Sinking Fast was one of the most fascinating film experiences of the year, and I can't wait to see what Bass does next.»

Reduces a potentially fascinating film into merely another cautionary story about a self - absorbed celebrity - junkie - whore.

But Garland's film more closely resembles Denis Villeneuve's recent science fiction hit Arrival, another slow, airless, fascinating film pocked with moments of sudden explosive action.

Fascinating film details history of American unit whose sole objective was to fool Hitler and Nazis by creating fake armies.

At once strange and compelling, Enyedi Ildiko's unique and fascinating film draws us in with subtle wisps of character intrigue and harsh reality.

It's a sporadically fascinating film that dips its toe into many different themes where perhaps it should have chosen to immerse itself in just one or two.

Now comes «Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet,» a wildly ambitious and frequently fascinating film that moviegoers of all ages should find both entertaining and provocative in equal measure.

VOTING BEGINS ON NOMINEES FOR BEST POLITICAL FILMS OF 2017 The year 2017 had many fascinating films raising political consciousness.

That feels unlikely, but the impulse behind his assertion — a desire to claim agency, independence, and authorship — is what makes Portrait of Jason such an enduringly fascinating film.

Other fascinating films presented by studios and filmmakers were: Christopher Nolan's «Dunkirk,» Joe Wright's «Darkest Hour,» Denis Villeneuve's «Blade Runner 2049,» Richard Linklater's «Last Flag Flying,» Matt Reeves» «War for the Planet of the Apes,» James Mangold's «Logan,» Lee Unkrich's «Coco,» Alexander Payne's «Downsizing,» Darren Aronofsky's «mother!»

Though «Steve Jobs» will rub some people the wrong way with its prickly depiction of the Apple visionary, it's an endlessly fascinating film that's more respectful of its subject than it initially appears.

Comedies, romances, and thrillers, the six fascinating films collected here — including «Intermezzo,» the movie that brought Bergman to America — exhibit the precociously assured talent of a young artist with an illustrious international career ahead of her.

Without ever losing that gritty, indie sensibility, Ben Wheatley's fascinating film begins a slide in Act 2 from crime drama toward macabre thriller.

The Rider is a quietly fascinating film.

by Walter Chaw A gyno - centric reimagining of Disney's own Sleeping Beauty, visual - effects guy Robert Stromberg's directorial debut Maleficent (from a script by never - good Disney house - overwriter Linda Woolverton) takes all the ingredients for a horrible disaster and somehow wrestles a fitfully fascinating film from them.

Watching Alexandre Philippe's 78/52 excavate, study and comment on the now infamous «shower scene» in Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho is like being enveloped in the most fascinating film studies course imaginable.

And how was Jake Scott able to transform this dynamic act of creation into an equally fascinating film?

When he returned to civilian life, he immediately resumed his screen career with a series of fascinating films, including The Black Angel and James Cagney's production20of The Time of Your Life.

Fantastic acting, gorgeous period costumes, nicely photographed, and realistically presented, Capote emerges from modest character piece into one of 2005's finest, wittiest, and most fascinating films.

In my second post on the fascinating film (linked below), I explain that the cartoonish presentation might be accounted for, in large part, by the fact that these women (who, like all women, if you look closely, have their good points) are viewed through the lens of both their rightly hugely disgruntled «help» and their somewhat snobbish aristocratic friend (Eugenia [Skeeter], the film's official heroine).

The Panamanian - born Roberto Duran's story has all the makings of a fascinating film, but Hands of Stone isn't it.

It's still a fascinating film, and will make you think, but this really needed to be written and edited a lot better.

Could not stop watching this... this is just a fascinating film.

The unwashed talent and originality of «The Talent Given Us» makes it a compelling and fascinating film.

An fascinating film that is both a valentine to the charms of Iceland and a flinty meditation on a young man's quest to bestow a blessing on the parents he took for granted.

Aronofsky again showcases a unique point of view and perspective that is rarely seen in film today and «Swan» while not a masterpiece is still a fascinating film to watch.

1992 saw the rise of his madness to the screens, such bold, brutal and fascinating films can only come from a mind equally consumed by the love for filmmaking.

With both actors performing against type — Jonah Hill in particular is known for melodramatic roles in «The Wolf of Wall Street,» about a financial tycoon, and «Moneyball,» about the use of technology in baseball — «True Story» is a gripping, fascinating film, a psychological thriller without the melodrama we associate with highly commercial works.

Yes, a fascinating film telling a story about the battle Aids, the FDA and AZT.

Haggis» journey into and out of Scientology could have made a fascinating film by itself, and he's just one of a dozen articulate talking heads.

Unfortunately, if they are lucky enough to find a method for distribution, many of these fascinating films will not appear in local neighborhoods for months.

Despite its occasional oversteps and misfires, The Childhood of a Leader is a fascinating film, as moving and irresistible as it is terrifying.

For gravitating toward the myth of Kurt Cobain — and therefore the rock «n» roll death myth itself — while simultaneously attempting to push out of its orbit, Gus Van Sant's Last Days is a fascinating film.

Prolific documentary maker Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) steers a fascinating film about the Church of Scientology in Going Clear, based on the book by Lawrence Wright.

Back in October, we watched John Trengove's debut feature THE WOUND at the BFI London Film Festival and we were truly stunned, moved and impressed by this fascinating film that transported us to a world rarely seen on screen.

It's a fascinating film about a relatively unknown story, expertly crafted and a lot of fun to watch.

Too few people saw Red State, a flawed but fascinating film that boasted an absolutely mesmerizing performance by Tarantino favorite Michael Parks, but Smith knew he had something great in this actor.

Since the 1980s, Maddin has worked tirelessly in bringing his avant - garde melodramas to life, though rarely given due credit for his fascinating films.

This is a fascinating film, and Chastain's wonderful performance has something in it of the tragic sense of life.

A fascinating film, soaked in the anti-establishment zeitgeist.

These desecrations or enhancements, and they are variously classed as both, form the spine of this fascinating film, which says so much about women, men and creativity.

A vexing, challenging, fascinating film.

It's a fascinating film with the access he got, the way he got people to talk.

One of the most thunderously applauded entries in Toronto this year was itself a fascinating film about failure: «The Disaster Artist,» which revisits the making of that 2003 bad - movie classic, «The Room,» is a triumph for its prolific director and star, James Franco, best known of late for clogging the festival circuit with wan adaptations of «In Dubious Battle» and «The Sound and the Fury.»