Sentences with phrase «feelgood film»

Perhaps the feelgood film of the year, its premise of an astronaut stranded alone on a hostile planet wouldn't seem to lend itself easily to jollity.

So why is Aaron Eckhart now playing the lovable lead in a big box office, feelgood film?

In the 65th annual Golden Globes, Atonement fought off strong competition from violent thrillers American Gangster, Eastern Promises and No Country for Old Men, legal drama Michael Clayton, historical saga There Will Be Blood and Oprah Winfrey - produced feelgood film The Great Debaters, for the best film award.

Director Paddy Breathnach finds a set of strong performances from his Cuban cast for this feelgood film set in a seedy Havana

It was the feelgood film that gifted us with the phrase «Show me the money!»

The recent trend away from more challenging fare towards more sentimental, feelgood films really started with Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire.

Not exact matches

It's also, quite unexpectedly, one of the all - time great feelgood movies, and if you don't take anything else from the film, then take its unabashedly positive moral to heart, and «choose life».

Certainly the feelgood factor is in effect here; but the film doesn't really distinguish itself within the genre.

I've already discussed how many critics seem to be misinterpreting Mike Leigh's «Happy - Go - Lucky» and its protagonist, Poppy, by interpreting it as a sheer feelgood work — and in doing so, missing much of the film's complex, subtle social observation.

Despite its feelgood resolution, the film offers little in the way of reassurance that the next black man framed in the Deep South won't have to wait just as long to be vindicated.

-- it is an entertaining film, correcting some of the fuzzily feelgood reporting of the story back in 2010, in which Hilal was frequently described as a «mother - of - four Saudi housewife».

It's a «feelgood» romantic dramedy (If the film would be American, no one would doubt about the chances)

This unfortunate baggage hampers the film's journey towards its desired feelgood destination.

There have been many feelgood movies that never won Best Picture leading up to 2008 — in fact, you could comb through Oscar history and find that voters used to think that happily - ever - after wasn't a substantial enough ingredient to award a film Best Picture.

It isn't hard to see how the film's feelgood factor can give audiences a much - needed sense of escape or respite.

The period setting may play better to those of a certain age than a younger audience, and Sing Street is obviously a little contrived in the way that all of these «feelgood» films tend to be.