Sentences with phrase «favorite film this year»

To top it off, they announced an entirely new category - outstanding directorial achievement by first - time filmmakers, featuring some of my own favorite films this year: The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Son of Saul, Ex Machina, and The Gift.

I hope you enjoy it man, it's definitely not the * best * sci - fi ever but man for my money it's the best there is this year and it's up there among my favorite films this year.

If we are giving an updated list of favorite films this year, I am putting Sicario on that list.

Tina: «One of my favorite films this year is the movie Her, which takes place in the not so distant future.

Not exact matches

I recently saw the film «Whiplash,» which is one of my favorite films of the year.

But both Entertainment Weekly and The Guardian cite his favorite film as «Home Alone» — a selection you probably never would have guessed, especially since it didn't come out until years after he left the presidency.

It's all about the unpredictable at the MTV Movie Awards, hosted by comedian Kevin Hart and action star Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, where fans vote for their favorite films and performances from the year.

When I imagined my summer break this year, all I could think about was going to the beach, sipping iced tea, and catching up on my favorite classic films I've recorded throughout the semester.

We love revisiting the favorite films from our childhood or teen years — tell me I'm not the only one that has watched a Disney movie while officially an adult... (I still love Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty — those drawings, the music!

San Francisco - based sex therapists Danielle Harel, PhD and Celeste Hirschman say their favorite scene comes from this 2006 film: when Norton and Biel's forbidden lovers reunite after being separated for 15 years.

Every year, some clickbait - chasing doofus questions whether TV or film is the superior medium, ignoring that they're entirely different from each other See episodes of your favorite MTV Shows.

Both of those films were — as widely expected — among eight nominees for best picture this year, as were longtime Oscar favorite Boyhood and awards - friendly biopics like The Imitation Game, Selma, and The Theory of Everything.

In a year that's offered a shameless, derivative Amblin knockoff («Super 8») and a worthy Amblin successor («Attack The Block»), «Real Steel» is the time - capsule copy that supplies both the strengths and shortcomings of the films in its milieu, resulting in a work of entertainment that will be some ten - year - old's all - time favorite as surely as «The Goonies» or «E.T.» was for ten - year - olds 25 years ago.

Another distributor that goes for the quantity and quality approach, Magnolia had one of the year's most popular documentaries in Blackfish and one of critics» favorite foreign films in The Hunt, even as its percentage of films receiving positive reviews dropped from 50 % in 2012 to 45 % last year.

The film is brutal and sad, and I'm not sure I can watch it again any time soon, but it is easily one of my favorites of the year.

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Throw in Joss Whedon tackling The Avengers, the first of two Hobbit movies, James Bond's next adventure, the opening chapter of The Hunger Games, new films from Wes Anderson, David O. Russell, Judd Apatow, P.T. Anderson, Alfonso Cuarón, Whit Stillman, the Coen brothers (maybe), and more of our favorite directors, and we can't imagine a better year for movies.

And, though the studio was shut out of the best picture nominations for the first time since 2010, it still picked up five nominations in other categories for films such as Before Midnight (one of critics» favorites last year) and Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.

Her early film credits included playing Peter O'Toole's daughter, Tess, in My Favorite Year; and tap - dancing, 1930s style, on a white piano, in Pennies From Heaven.

The HFPA voters — a relatively small group as far as major awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites among the film critic community, the voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.

Using her restored film stature, Midler set up her own production company and produced Beaches (1988), a pals - through - the - years saga that proved to be a four - hankie audience favorite.

Take Shelter was one of my favorite films from last year, and this sounds like a great one as well.

Horror still reigns in Park City Extending a tradition that's already stretched from The Babadook and The Witch to Get Out, Sundance proved a dependable launching pad for standout horror: This year's Hereditary — a nightmarish supernatural grief drama starring an unhinged Toni Collette — was the one film that came closest to a consensus favorite (if by favorite, we mean a movie that thoroughly traumatized all audiences).

It is still easily my favorite film of the year.

Eschewing the typical film - festival awards ceremony, Fantastic Fest announced its awards at its closing - night party, held this year at a backlot - style «ghost town» that's a favorite for Old West - themed weddings in Austin.

My favorite animated film of the year and one of the best films of the year.

My dozen favorite films at Cannes this year?

Now that we're officially at the halfway mark of the year, we put our heads together here at Way Too Indie to come up with our favorite films of 2014 so far.

This was especially strange, considering it reunited the two stars of one of my favorite films of last year, The Innkeepers, Pat Healy and Sara Paxton.

And while we don't have films this year by festival (and my) favorites Luc and Jean - Pierre Dardenne, we do have Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Haneke, David Cronenberg, Jacques Audiard and Ken Loach.

For years now, composers of all kinds have been hosting live performances of their favorite work, usually shown alongside with the film during the orchestration.

This is the auteur's second project to utilize the real - life passing of time as a storytelling device, following his Before series (whose latest entry, Before Midnight, was my favorite film of 2013), a trio of romance movies separated by 9 years each starring Hawke and Julie Delpy.

Cannes favorite son Jim Jarmusch was welcomed back with open arms at this year's festival, as the press finally got a glimpse of his latest feature film «Paterson» on Monday.

Based on the hit novel by Ernest Cline, the film pays homage to the classic favorites of the last forty years.

Looper stands as my favorite film of the year so far (I haven't seen The Master yet, but I think it'll be hard to top this).

Texas Chainsaw 3D, the first film I get to review this year is actually one I saw a while back in December, Ruben Fleischer's (director of one of my favorite comedies of recent years, Zombieland, and one of the most forgettable comedies of recent years, 30 Minutes Or Less) stylistic 1940s tale of heroism, gangsters, and a colorful - but - corrupt Los Angeles, Gangster Squad.

He comments: «It was probably my favorite film at this year's festival and the first film I gave an A + to all year... what makes it so great is the way Russell creates an honest reality around those cliches with characters you can connect with and feel close to.»

Lowery went on to direct Pete's Dragon, one of my favorite films of 2016, and he's back at Sundance this year with a surprise low - budget film titled A Ghost Story.

One of my all - time favorite sci - fi films is returning to theaters this year for its 20th anniversary.

My favorite film of the year (so far) is still Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, which I saw at both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals earlier in the year.

At that time he was premiering his second film, Blue Valentine, which went on to earn a lot of acclaim - one of my favorites of the year.

I watched it last year at Fantastic Fest and it ended up being my favorite film of an impressively stacked festival.

I'll admit that I'm a little biased towards Vogt - Roberts since I've loved his previous films so much; Kings of Summer was one of my favorite coming - of - age movies in years.

The audience received Midnight Madness favorite son Eli Roth like a king, and after some winning showmanship he gave them their money's worth with his first film in six years (what kept him?).

It's easily one of my favorite films of the year.

While this isn't my favorite movie of this year as Hot Fuzz was of 2007, I'd be perfectly delighted for this trio to make a film of this caliber on a regular basis.

Three years ago one of my favorite films of the year, Paris Je» Taime was released to theaters and I was actually taken aback at how much I liked the piece.

So I've been waiting the better part of three years to see the sequel of sorts to one of my favorite films of 2007 with another set of great stories told by world class film makers and actors.

At the end of each year, several film critics circles begin to appear and discuss their favorite films of the year.

One thing you should know about the Reader's year - end film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 2018.