Sentences with phrase «film by my reckoning»

A 4 * film by my reckoning.

Not exact matches

Even by traditional reckoning, the start of the new millennium should be January 2001, as the Royal Greenwich Observatory has declared and the title of the popular film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, suggests.

By no reasonable reckoning can the film be considered a competent piece of cinematic storytelling, yet somehow the movie transcends its silly screenplay with over-the-top action and visually imaginative battles.

It's the first one of these films that doesn't merely reckon with power and subjugation in the abstract, but also gives those ideas actual weight by grafting them onto specific bodies and confronting the historical ways in which they've shaped our universe.

«I, Tonya» is far more engaging when its characters aren't winking at the camera, and Gillespie almost squeezes his heroine out of her own movie instead of more directly reckoning with her secondhand involvement in the incident that has come to define her life, but the film always rediscovers its poise by returning to Harding's circumstances.

While Timberlake shows he's a force to be reckoned with as an entertainer, he's not quite enough of a presence in the acting department to elevate a film like this, adding little perceptible nuance to a by - the - numbers plotline.

By any reckoning, the film's visual panache and terrific performances, especially by its two well - matched leads, announce Khant as a director of truly impressive talentBy any reckoning, the film's visual panache and terrific performances, especially by its two well - matched leads, announce Khant as a director of truly impressive talentby its two well - matched leads, announce Khant as a director of truly impressive talents.

But Movie Club has already forced me to reckon with the fact that many of the depictions I found most resonant were in films directed by men.

On Disc One, which contains the theatrical version of the film, there's Cholo's Reckoning, an interview with actor John Leguizamo; Charlie's Story, an interview with actor Robert Joy; The Pillsbury Factor, an interview with actor Pedro Miguel Arce; Four of the Apocalypse: The Zombies of Land of the Dead, interviews with actors Eugene Clark, Jennifer Baxter, Boyd Banks, and Jasmin Geljo; the Dream of the Dead IFC TV special with optional audio commentary by director Roy Frumkes; deleted footage from Dream of the Dead; a set of deleted scenes (titled The Remaining Bits on previous releases); the film's theatrical trailer; and a photo gallery with 111 images.

By any reckoning he owes a lot to privilege: the right upbringing in the right place with the right parents (a cinephile professor and a film critic), the right schools, right connections and right friends, even the right producer (Scott Rudin).

The Hateful Eight: The interminable tedium of the first half of the film is only matched by the second half's fervent hope that its bloody reckoning will have been worth the wait.

That film was set in motion by a child's homecoming, and «The Lovers» makes use of a similar device in its second half, when Michael and Mary's son, Joel (Tyler Ross), arrives with his girlfriend (Jessica Sula) in tow — a development that gradually spurs his mom and dad toward their long - overdue reckoning.