Sentences with phrase «film excels»

Where the film excels is in the realigned version of how the characters interact, especially in real life.

Jason Reitman's film excels in giving the delicate family balance a kind of rewarding poignancy.

The film excels at conveying height and spatial dimensions.

The film excels again and again as it adapts to best serve the still - unsolved mystery in its various stages.

Once again, the film excels at striking just the right tone.

That being said, I find it incredible how much this film both excels and expands on what the former achieved, while also defacing its legacy in practically equal measures.

Among those appearing are lead voice cast members Tom Hanks (goateed) and Tim Allen, acclaimed animation directors Brad Bird and Hayao Miyazaki (who delivers only a brief subtitled anecdote), helmers of cinematic spectacle George Lucas and a surprisingly svelte Peter Jackson, Disney's go - to film historians Leonard Maltin and John Canemaker, and Roy E. Disney (who gets to sprinkle in the sage observation that the film excels because of story, not CGI - a philosophy Pixar seems to be pushing here).

One area where the film excels is its look.

This film excels in all of these areas, making the audience care about what happens to each character, whether it be the investigating couple, Lorraine and Ed Warren (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson respectively), the tortured owners of the house Roger and Carolyn Perron (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor), or their kids (too many to count).

And this film excels through its layers.

However, what the film excels at with its display, it lacks in with its narrative.

An auspicious breakthrough for Mitchell (who scored a Best Director nomination last week from the Independent Spirit Awards), the film excels through harmonious design elements that serve an open metaphor that dynamically allows various interpretations — and also rattle even the toughest of nerves.

Although the finale is signposted fairly early on, the film excels in shining a light on a particular kind of childhood.

Accepting that, I have to recognize that the film excels in its examination of a life and what it means to be alive.

Where the film excels is the chemistry between the characters.

The film excels when it focuses on the men's roots, uncomplicated love of country, and domestic complications.

Where the film excels, however, is director William Wyler's measured tone, which accepts the story's focus — of gradual changes and carnage on the home front — and uses lengthy sequences emphasizing actor reactions.

The tone of the film excels; there is a good balance between wonder and terror.

Really the film excels with its visuals, a lovely looking old fashioned 30's New York complete with dated cars, store fronts and atmospheric swirling mist, the invisibility effects, shadow effects, hands on makeup and a surprisingly cool looking outfit for the Shadow (did someone pinch ideas for «Dark City» here?).

Costa - Gavras» film excels as a meticulously researched procedural that goes deep into the grime of greed, deception and cynical exploitation.

Unfortunately, the film excels in the moral ambiguities of Hollywood.

All performances remain irrelevant in the face of such expensive, explosive combat and destruction, and there the film excels: You will feel blown back into your seat, starting 40 seconds into the story.

The Katan - Ex microlayer film excels in increased pallet stability at elevated temperatures, uses 30 percent less material per pallet and reduces damage products during transportation by 80 percent.

Where the film excelled, there were other aspects I felt that ultimately let it down.

Not exact matches

And Fulton was another guy who was fundamentally sound, but had physical limitations that prevented him from excelling on film

In a recent YouTube campaign film, he complained that «we have gone down the road of mediocracy and compromise, we don't like the idea of excelling of anything because we worry that it implies that somebody is less good».

It's here than Wan excels, a sign of his fantastic character work to come in films like Insidious and The Conjuring, with his work both fantastically calculated and seemingly chaotic.

Django Unchained is an epic film with a simple and straightforward story that is as entertaining as they come; for all the hyper - explosive and bloody bullet hits, the film shines in its more quieter moments, where an actor like Christoph Waltz can excel in his charm or Samuel L. Jackson can ooze with ill - intent.

She only has one brief scene, but she excels in it, much like she did in the original film.

Hayek, to her credit, makes the most of this opportunity to play a decidedly unglamorous character, and she excels even when the film doesn't.

After excelling in football and track Northwestern University, African - American film star Fred Williamson was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers.

Sometimes you get even both phenomena in the same film, as was the case in Ken Russell's Tommy: Tina Turner excels as the Acid Queen, while Eric Clapton (with both a real and a fake beard) is barely credible.

Marvel's films have never really excelled at world - building.

You Again is the kind of film that Disney excelled in the fifties and sixties.

As he has proven on «Saturday Night Live» and multiple small film roles, he excels at loosy - goosey, dignity - free merriment and can deliver even the most average of punch lines with enough lunacy to merit a laugh.

Too often, films aim (and routinely fail) to excel in one capacity and one capacity alone - as an adequate genre film, or a diversionary star vehicle, or a thought - provoking character study, etc..

For someone with no real acting experience, Lustig excels with a humane performance, effortlessly inhabiting every scene of the film.

Apart from some visually arresting images (at which Iñárritu has always excelled), the film has little to offer, and it's even sadder when you consider how far Iñárritu and Garriaga have fallen since «Amores Perros.»

At the end of the day Whiplash is a triumphant and inspiring film that shouldn't just be viewed by musicians, but anyone who has ever felt the struggle to excel at any given occupation beyond expectations.

This is the type of film that Colin Firth where excels.

Role Models excels in cheap laughs, but that's not to say it's a bad film.

Binder actually wrote the script in order to give a comedic role to actress Joan Allen (The Bourne Supremacy, The Notebook), with whom he worked with on the film, The Contender, and she takes full advantage of the opportunity to excel.

Click for showtimes and tickets — JR Byzantium Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) shows there's plenty of life left in the undead - bloodsucker genre: His Irish - seaside horror story features a brilliantly brooding performance by Saoirse Ronan as an adolescent vamp, and the kind of mythic, adult - fairy - tale imagery — a mountain waterfall running crimson red — at which this incomparable film fantasist excels.

With the major exception of Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro has always excelled at style over substance, producing gorgeously imagined films with tiresome scripts, clichéd stories and cardboard cut - out villains.

The film may veer towards the melodramatic, yet it excels in other ways.

Adding the films success to his repertoire definitely showcases Del Toro's ability to adapt and excel in multiple genres.

This is an impressive first film, and it will be interesting to see if Legrand's path takes him towards more cut - and - dried horror, or the chin - strokey, cynical social realist art movie at which directors like Michael Haneke excel.

She particularly excels when working with Paul Feig, as films like Spy and the Ghostbusters remake deftly show, but when she takes direction from husband and screenplay collaborator Ben Falcone, McCarthy's talents are wasted on formless star vehicles that don't serve any purpose beyond further exposing McCarthy's popular presence.

First - time director Power shows a steady hand guiding his twisty film, and he certainly excels at mounting tension.

Where the film differs, of course, is in its characters and cast, and that's also where this version of the «Ghostbusters» excels.