Sentences with phrase «film critic writing»

And according to Michael Atkinson in a new must - read article at Moving Image Source — and as evidenced by the passages from Greene's writing quoted in the piece — he was as mellifluous and cutting a film reviewer as he was a storyteller, in fact «for a short while the best film critic writing in English.»

With the changing times and a shift from print to on - line media, the traditional film critic writing for a newspaper is slowly disappearing.

Men film critics wrote an average of 25 reviews whereas women film critics wrote an average of 19 reviews.

After watching the film, some film critics wrote that aside from the perfect visuals, the poetic expression of the story was along the same vein as «Ashes Of Time».

On the evidence of the insightful, erudite and fun to read Watching Them Be, Harvey may well be considered one of the finest film critics writing today.

Not exact matches

Critics say wait for other Steve Jobs film, written by Aaron Sorkin http://t.co/cySnQbaRaG

Critics embraced the film, hailing it as a comic book movie with bite, with Variety's Owen Gleiberman writing that Logan ``... brings the saga to a satisfying finish.»

«Clearly, the film carried the risk that an unflattering camera angle, unwelcome question or even an obvious omission by Mr. Scorsese would become a blemish to Mr. Clinton's legacy or provide fodder for Clinton critics as the 2016 campaign approaches,» the Times» Amy Chozick and Michael Cieply wrote.

«Before I knew it, I was spending all my free time thinking about wedding favors and invitations, centerpieces and bridal registries, cakes and photographers,» writes film critic Carina Chocano in Altared.

For National Public Radio and LA Theater Works Alma performed in the radio versions of Zoot Suit and Nilo Cruz's Pultizer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics opposite Jimmy Smits.As a 25 year member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) founded by Luis Valdez, she has appeared in landmark ETC productions of; Zoot Suit, both the film and play (1979 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Play); Corridos, both the TV version (1987 Peabody Award) and play; I Don't Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges; and Mummified Deer (Back Stage West «Honorable Mention» for her role as Mama Chu), all written and directed by Valdez.Ms.

Critics Consensus: Well - written, well - meaning and solidly acted, The Life of Emile Zola film may ultimately be more earnest than dramatically engaging.

I acknowledge the fact that most of his scripts have issues and that critics seem to bash every film he writes from the second it leaves the page and is translated to the big screen.

Though Tony Gilroy, who shared writing credit on all three previous Bourne films and directed the excellent Michael Clayton 82 (and much less excellent Duplicity 69), handles both writing and directing duties here, critics found that Legacy added little in the way of originality, while Renner proved a less captivating action star than Damon.

Richard Schickel, whose celebrated and prolific career spans 50 years, has been the film critic for Time and Life magazines, has written more than 20 books and has produced, written and directed numerous...

His fourth film under his 20 - year ban is «an artful, surprising and thrillingly intelligent story about a few women trying to make a difference, forging bonds of solidarity in quiet defiance of the repressive, small - minded men in their rural village,» writes L.A. Times critic Justin Chang, who also finds «its insights casually profound.»

Voted Most Outstanding Journalist of the Decade by the Disilgold Soul Literary Review in 2008, Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100 + publications around the U.S. and Canada.

On the other hand, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw finds the film «rich, disturbing and strange,» and writing for Time, Stephanie Zacharek sums up the thoughts of many critics, «Disjointed and direct, exhilarating and soporific, cerebral and squirrelly: The Image Book is lots of contradictory things at once.»

Written by Bird and Damon Lindelof (Lost), the film is as shrouded in mystery as any release this year, but Bird's track record at the box office and with critics (see sidebar) bodes well for his latest, as does the strong supporting cast of Hugh Laurie, Judy Greer, Kathryn Hahn, and Keegan - Michael Key.

Brady has written and produced television shows such as «The Critic» (1994), «The Simpsons» (1989), «Home Improvement» (1991) and «Sports Night» (1998) as well as the feature film, The Animal (2001), with Rob Schneider.

He has since gone on to enjoy a prolific freelance writing career with regular bylines in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Smithsonian, and Playboy magazine (where he served as film critic for six years).

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer praised Streep's performance as Post publisher Katharine Graham, writing, «In inexorable increments, she transforms what might have been just another feminist standard - bearer into something far more complex.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer writes that Elliott and actress Laura Prepon, who portrays a stand - up comic who is romantically involved with Elliott's protagonist, Lee, are both «quietly effective.»

It's an interesting enough trip and admittedly, it was great fun listening to critics discuss their love for not only the movies themselves but writing about them but the film lacks any conviction.

Now we have Scorsese's long - gestating screen adaptation of «Silence,» and it's a frustrating paradox: a carefully considered, dramatically blinkered chamber epic, written by Scorsese and his occasional collaborator, former film critic Jay Cocks.

The movie is «a film for the whole family that, for a change, really is for the whole family,» Monitor film critic Peter Rainer writes.

he 71st Cannes Film Festival is underway (May 8 - 19), and L.A. Times critic Justin Chang is there, seeing as many movies as possible and writing about it for a day - by - day, film - by - film diary.

When I came to movies as an adult critic, I tried to write religious film criticism, in the sense that I saw art in religious terms.

The Detroit Film Critics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of nineteen film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and New YorCritics Society was founded in Spring 2007 and consists of a group of nineteen film critics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and New Yorcritics with a Michigan connection who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and New York City.

You wrote another subjective opinion I hated about SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK - a weird thing for a critic who is assigned to review films to do - so clearly the precedent is set and all of your subjective opinions are null and void.

National Public Radio (NPR) film critic Ella Taylor wrote: «It's hard to imagine any but the most dour and humourless taking offense at this essentially sweet - natured movie».

Blogger and critic Chris Williams has been writing about film and faith for more than a decade.

Usually, whenever critics start writing about films in purely mechanical terms -LRB-»em otional batteries») it means that those mechanical systems failed to work.

That's the only way reviews have ever worked for a mainstream audience, be it as part of the captive audience for weekly reviews as part of a newscast, as a column in a popular magazine or newspaper, on its own as in shows like Siskel & Ebert At The Movies, or even in print — Leonard Maltin, another beloved film critic and film historian, established his name writing a book of capsule reviews.

Women writing reviews were most likely to hold the job title of staff writer (35 %), followed by film critic (29 %), freelancer (29 %), or some other type of critic (8 %).

Men critics in areas other than film wrote an average of 6 film reviews whereas women with this job title wrote an average of 3 film reviews.

The sample included reviews written by film critics; other types of critics including those for television, music, and popular culture; staff reporters; and

Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Brad Stevens and a consideration of the Hills franchise by Ewan Cant, illustrated with original archive stills (Blu - Ray only)

After the film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize, Variety film critic Todd McCarthy wrote, «Gosling and Williams interact beautifully and without a false note, their deep immersion in their roles resulting in nothing but behavioral truths.»

Searching for Bobby Fischer is a crowd - pleasing sports film written and directed by Steven Zaillian (A Civil Action, All the King's Men) that gets high marks from critics and audiences alike, but which I personally found to be too manipulative and contrived to swallow down in a satisfactory way.

Matt writes: The twentieth anniversary of Ebertfest, the film festival co-founded by Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert at the University of Illinois, College of Media, is slated to run from Wednesday, April 18th, through Sunday, April 22nd, next year.

While it's true that much will rest on how the critics see these films, there is no doubt that these two roles, along with Christine, Queen of Katwe, and Florence Foster Jenkins stand out from the pack because it is so unusual now to see women cast this way, much less written about in this way.

Of the newspapers featuring film reviews in the fall of 2007, 47 % had no reviews written by women critics, writers or freelancers.

The first vocal critic of how «Show Dogs» treats consent was mother Terina Maldonado, writing for the family film blog Macaroni Kid.

Eloise Ross writes and teaches about film in Melbourne, Australia, and is a member of the Australian Film Critics Association.

(Critic Raymond Durgnat once wrote that in this film «she blends a soft body with a butch suspicion and a childlike potentiality for devotion» — a description that clearly ties her to Seberg, MacNamara, and many other of her weird sisters in the Preminger canon.)

Longtime Argentine film critic Hernán Guerschuny writes what he knows in his mild directorial debut about a film critic who falls in love via all the rom - com clichés he despises in print.

Truth be told, though it did go on to earn some decent write - ups among most critics, I did not care for that film, and I care even less for this one.

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

In my 20 + years as a film critic I think Roger's approach to his work is probably the closest to what I was aiming at in my fumbling attempts to write about cinema.