Sentences with phrase «film buoyant»

Good performances keep the film buoyant, and there are some killings late in the movie that are delivered with impact, enough to garner the meekest of recommendations for genre fans, especially those who love the ones from the 1970s.

That said, Miller and Graynor make a good team, and have enough chemistry to keep the film buoyant.

Yet there is always wonder percolating beneath the surface, threatening to break through, keeping the film buoyant.

Not exact matches

iInstead of a buoyant, imaginative superhero movie on the order of Sam Raimi's «Spider - Man» films or Bryan Singer's «Superman Returns,» we get a lumbering, paint - by - numbers origin story.

What's not so expected, what comes as something bordering on shock, of a gratifying kind, is how much else the film takes on in this buoyant and mercilessly frank look at Bradlee's life and career.

While the music is hardly as catchy as the Academy Award winning compilations from his 2006 film, Once, a buoyant attitude sometimes fills in here, at least enough to make for an emotionally satisfying final act.

Rowling and Yates have given us a terrifically good - natured, unpretentious and irresistibly buoyant film.

Making its stateside home video debut on Tuesday, February 17, is Jacques Rivette's Le Pont du Nord (Kino Lorber, Blu - ray, DVD), a dark sister film to his more buoyant and whimsical Celine and Julie Go Boating.

Jonathan Demme's buoyant mid-Eighties yuppie road movie is, in retrospect, maybe the key American film of its era along with Blue Velvet (also 1986, but Blue Velvet was more popular), but despite excellent reviews very few people went to see it.

While summer 2013 hasn't exactly been buoyant overall for arthouse films, it's been exceptionally weak for foreign language titles — outside of Bollywood, of course.

Everybody Knows also movingly undercuts its buoyant tone with the introduction of a sudden big conflict that serves to reduce all of the film's relational dynamics to a sustained simmer of blame, fear, and distrust.

The film's arc is deceptively simple, following Lady Bird through her senior year (which is helped along by some excellent editing and a joyful, buoyant score from Jon Brion).

But in the moment, it's a dizzying breath of fresh air, and sets the mood for Sean Baker's brilliant, buoyant, and ultimately heart - wrenching film.

, the uproariously funny and buoyant new film from Swedish auteur Lukas Moodysson, follows a trio of teenage girls who form a punk rock band.

It may be in the gutter, but Captain Underpants is as buoyant a film as the studio has made in years.

The movie's buoyant mood, created with the help of charismatic performances from a cast of Hong Kong superstars, belies its daringly experimental approach to film form.

The Swedish film blends situational comedy, buoyant classical music, and gorgeous snowy mountain imagery to tell the story of a family on a five day ski vacation in the French Alps who have a scary encounter with an avalanche.

Full of the lavish sets and extravagant costumes becoming of a royal family period drama, the film, steeped in monarchy, feels buoyant and vibrant in no small part thanks to the actors» ability to humanize such aristocratic characters.

The strong start builds enough goodwill to keep things buoyant even when things slow a little around the film's midway point (does any Muppets fan ever think «this part could really use a slow Miss Piggy song here»?!).

In earlier films, like Nobody Knows, heartbreak and tragedy are the centers of feeling; in more recent films, like I Wish, buoyant, infectious hope permeates.

A buoyant film about deep sadness and political disquiet, and quite the most fucked - up love story out there.

Rattling along over a spindly guitar riff and with a buoyant bounce that recalls The Cribs, it's the also the soundtrack to a new film by the artist entitled Work No. 1701.