Sentences with phrase «film critics went»

It is also with such hope that film critics go to film screenings on cold winter mornings and sit in cold theaters with cold fingers trying to take notes — you get a pleasant surprise.

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Going into the weekend the big news was the almost universal bashing of the film by critics.

CNN: Targeting «Les Miserables» to Christians pays off at the box office In spite of tepid reviews from some film critics, «Les Miserables» is booming at the box office, and that financial success can in part be traced to a group of its biggest boosters: Christians, particularly evangelicals whom NBC Universal went after with a microtargeted marketing strategy.

I'm going to do something I've never done as a film critic, and will never do again.

He went on to play wisecracking leading roles in such «B «s as Night of Terror (1933), The Nut Farm (1935) and The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1935); the critics paid no heed to these minor efforts, though they always showered Ford with praise for his supporting roles in films like John Ford's The Informer (1935) and Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

I thought this was going to be a dry film with big names for critics to slobber over.

Another distributor that goes for the quantity and quality approach, Magnolia had one of the year's most popular documentaries in Blackfish and one of critics» favorite foreign films in The Hunt, even as its percentage of films receiving positive reviews dropped from 50 % in 2012 to 45 % last year.

Warner again has more than 20 films lined up for 2015, which should be an interesting year for the studio, with plenty of films (Jupiter Ascending, Mad Max: Fury Road, Pan, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) that could potentially go either way with critics and with moviegoers.

The studio did manage to raise its average Metascore by 10 full points in 2013, while going 6 - for - 10 with critics; back in 2012, by comparison, Paramount released only one positively reviewed film.

Critics have fallen over themselves praising the film and I went into the theater expecting very big things indeed.

I can't say I can fully blame the critics, because even though, like I said, I like this film alright, it has more than just some decent, if annoying punk rock classics to give you (Yes, I'm going to say it again) «heebie - jeebies» (There).

Although Douglas was again praised for her work — here portraying a Carole King - like singer / songwriter — the film did poorly among critics and at the box office.The actress went on to do a number of made - for - TV films, including the satirical Weapons of Mass Distraction in 1997.

The HFPA voters — a relatively small group as far as major awards bodies go — typically make some oddball selections, and while not all of their film choices were favorites among the film critic community, the voters seemed to avoid any laughably bad selections this year.

Some critics went as far as to say that this film «scarred them for life».

Now, I do think that some critics are going overboard in their praise of the film (probably because they've been beaten down by a genre that has given them such horrendous fare as «Bride Wars» and «Something Borrowed»).

So who's to say that Todd Solondz or Skip Woods or Peter Berg or Danny Boyle or Robert Frank or Lance Mungia or John Dahl or Vincenzo Natali couldn't very well go on to have some quite significant bodies of work... or at the very least become a film critic.

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).

As a film critic and movie lover, my days of reading Roger's reviews and watching him spar with Gene Siskel go back as farRead More →

Somewhat critic - proof, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is the kind of movie that will probably be appreciated the more closely aligned with being a pothead you tend to be, and if you're baked yourself while watching it, it may be the funniest film you've seen since... the last time you were high watching a movie.

In fact, in the case of Sorkin's latest, some audiences and critics have taken issue with how soft the film goes in the final minutes.

The second Hanks film this Fall isn't one that's going to get him nominations (though a Critics Choice Best Actor in an Action Movie nod could be a possibility).

Commentators get around to watching the films which they have been nagged beyond endurance to see by the jabbering chorus of critics and find themselves in no mood to go with the flow.

Critics, however, raved about the film, many going a step beyond rewarding the artistic effort and mobilizing readers to go see the Amazon Studios original when it hits theaters later this year.

Kubrick fanatics will probably be the most gladdened at the participation of critic and Kubrick: The Definitive Edition author Michel Ciment, who goes full - tilt film studies in his 20 - minute conversation, picking Barry Lyndon apart like a mechanic dismantling an engine to show how it works, and its place of importance within the director's body of work.

As a film critic and movie lover, my days of reading Roger's reviews and watching him spar with Gene Siskel go back as far as I can remember to when I was a little kid watching movies instead of playing outside with the other neighbor kids.

According to Sundance where the film debuted: «With eternal curiosity, razor - sharp intellect, and existential longing, Gold is a culinary geographer taking us where no critic has gone before.»

Each title gets a full - length audio commentary from Travis Crawford, a dogged film critic and programmer with the instincts of a historian, who goes into detail on the background of just about every lead and significant supporting player who appears on screen, in addition to the producers and financiers behind the scenes who allowed (or more likely didn't allow) Romero to realize his vision on screen.

This comedy about conjoined twins has had American critics in a froth of moral indignation, and its relatively poor opening weekend figures at the US box office suggest that it may be a freakshow too far for the film - going public.

However, I've yet to hear much personal discussion on it from anyone other than the critics and it would seem that Farhadi has still some way to go before he gets the recognition he deserves among your average film enthusiast.

I can't think of many critics elsewhere who go to the same effort to explain and analyze the language, context, and implications of film.

The film critic David Ehrlich has tweeted that the film feels like it wasn't even made by humans, and I'd go further, to say that the movie dehumanizes its leading woman and attempts, disconcertingly, to dehumanize its audience.

At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, The Tribe won the Critics» Week Grand Prize; however, viewers should be prepared for a difficult watch — not so much in determining what's going on, but in the film's controversial depictions of teens having explicit sex and committing brutal acts of violence.

The Wedding Ringer and Frozen star Josh Gad is being touted to play the late film critic Roger Ebert in indie film Russ & Roger Go Beyond alongside Will Ferrell, who is set to play soft - core filmmaker Russ Meyer, who famously made Beyond The Valley of the Dolls together in 1970.

«Life Itself,» Steve James» widely praised documentary on the life and career of film critic Roger Ebert, went un-nominated, though another Chicago - derived project, «Finding Vivian Maier,» received a documentary nomination.

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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.

But with three months to go until the Academy Awards, most of the qualifying films are in theaters or screening for critics and the night's so - called big six are beginning to look a little clearer.

Because I'm no film critic nor film historian you could go to any respectable film critic's site and read up on their wealth of knowledge about all kinds of films both available in the mainstream and unavailable.

Though critics and most movie going audiences didn't think Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice lived up to the hype, the Zack Snyder film that launched the DC Cinematic Universe has nonetheless become the seventh highest - grossing comic book movie worldwide.

Finally... Timothy Brayton, easily one of the best (and most completist - friendly) online film critics, has ranked every single Bond film (with each link going to a new review) the Bond Girls and each James Bond.

Our Verdict: Among all the acclaimed films to bow at Cannes last year, there was one film that went in with no buzz and came out a true critic's darling: Alain Guiraudie «s «Stranger By The Lake,» which won Best Director in the Un Certain Regard strand, and went on to be named as Cahiers Du Cinema's best film of 2013.

Critics ranged from dubbing it a «straight - up masterpiece» / it «f — ing rules,» to a «Cannes rarity - a film I wish would go on for longer,» to a «gorgeously shot battle of [the] sexes led by formidable trio of Kidman, Dunst and [Colin] Farrell.»

We've gone through the trouble of collecting what the critics are saying about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the overall consensus is this may be the best Star Wars film out of the bunch.

· First runner - up: A Separation · Second runner - up: Starbuck Cadillac People's Choice Award for Best Documentary: The Island President Cadillac People's Choice for Midnight Madness: The Raid Int» l Critics Special Presentations Prize: The First Man Int» l Critics Discovery Programme Prize: Avalon Best Canadian Feature: Monsieur Lazhar SKYY Vodka Award for Best First Canadian feature: Edwin Boyd Best CDN short film goes to: Ian Harnarine's Doubles With Slight Pepper

Now the race is wide open, and is expected to go at a dizzying pace, with announcements to come from the Golden Globes, the Directors Guild, the Producers Guild, SAG - AFTRA, the Independent Spirit Awards and many film critics» associations from across the nation, leading up to the actual announcement of the Academy Award nominations.

Proyas later went on a tirade against film critics and film journalists in general for manufacturing a controversy over the movie's casting and conspiring to give it bad reviews.

: I realize I'm going to take some heat for putting this widely loathed film on my best list, especially since I was less than enthused by the overrated critic faves «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and «Call Me by Your Name,» but Darren Aronofsky's fantasia about a self - infatuated poet (Javier Bardem) and his suffering muse of a wife (Jennifer Lawrence) is, like «Get Out,» both horrific and satiric in ways that move beyond the easy confines of genre.

One of the hardest parts of Oscar watching is the inevitable truths that come out every year about the behavior of Academy voters, who are more like your average movie - goer than they are like film critics.

The Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire director released Aloha, which on paper had a lot going for it, such as a talented cast, but ultimately was hailed by many critics as one of Crowe's worst films and a box office disappointment.

The Margin Call director went out on a limb with All Is Lost by making a film with one character and almost no dialogue, but he stuck the landing and critics have taken notice not only of Robert Redford's performance but of Chandor's direction.