Sentences with phrase «fiction film of sorts»

This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.

Not exact matches

Although this is undoubtedly a sour film in message, there are many terrifically funny moments amid the tragedy, the sort of irreverent, crazy tone that Tarantino did so well in the aforementioned Pulp Fiction.

But make no mistake: In The Ambassador, Mads Brügger — who, as both featured performer in and auteur of films that seek to capture reality through fiction, is sort of the Euro film - festival equivalent of Sacha Baron Cohen, when Cohen was interesting — gives what has to be one of the riskiest and most committed performances of the year.

On the surface, the choice to go about this exfiltration (the lingo of «exfil» doing a bang up job of making it sound cool and James Bond - y) by fabricating a cheap knock - off science fiction movie that would seek to shoot their scenes in Iran in order to cut costs does manage to easily fall into the «so dumb it has to be true» camp, and of course it is true, the sort of conceit tailor - made for the infamous «based on a true story» tag that can often lead to a film sinking or swimming.