Sentences with phrase «film gets under your skin»

Like the engaging hit documentary Spellbound, this dance competition film gets under the skin and holds us in its grip like a well - crafted thriller.

A romantic comedy with a dark twist, this film gets under the skin as it knowingly explores both the writing process and the nature of relationships.

Not exact matches

The film understands that it is about revenge (as so many westerns are), but it never gets under the skin like No Country for Old Men or deconstructs the concept through brutality in the manner of Get Carter.

Alex Garland beautifully subverts cliches of both fantasy and horror genres, making a film that gets under the skin to properly freak us out

The film suffers from being diminutively compelling throughout, regardless of how interesting Hightower's shy, intensely fixed, stare is and how deeply under your skin the score gets.

That makes for engrossing and moving film making and a movie that actually got deeper under my skin than Spielberg's classic.

There is something about the film that gets under our skin, maybe reaffirmation of our connection to animals and all living things.

Korean director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943 film «Shadow of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.

I kind of like slow paced films, especial when they are psychological thrillers... that's when a movie really gets under your skin.

Laurent Cantet) The very definition of a film that gets under your skin, Time Out (L'Emploi du temps) tackles the same theme as American Beauty — unemployment as social protest — but with a thoroughness and quietude unheard - of in Hollywood pictures even of the indie kind.

FILM COMMENT spoke with Villeneuve (whose last film was Prisoners, also with Gyllenhaal) to get under the skin of the doubled characFILM COMMENT spoke with Villeneuve (whose last film was Prisoners, also with Gyllenhaal) to get under the skin of the doubled characfilm was Prisoners, also with Gyllenhaal) to get under the skin of the doubled character.

Carpenter's creation gets under your skin early and stays there for the duration, as the action heats up and becomes one of the most riveting horror films of the 80s.

As mentioned before, the film impresses visually (Like Ken Loach doing «The Body Snatchers») and is bolstered by an effective score by newcomer Mica Levi that quite literally gets under your skin.

Shot with a level of realism we rarely seen in Indian cinema, this film combines sharply engaging characters with an involving story that really gets under the skin.

The tale of an East German secret policeman (Ulrich Muhe, who would pass away six months after this riveting turn) who spends the majority of the film listening in on the lives of an arty couple (Sebastian Koch and Martina Gedeck), a playwright and actress suspected of harboring Western sympathies, really gets under your skin.

Refn knows how to make films that really get under the skin of certain people, and that makes me love his work even more.

Watching Under the Skin again brought to mind another comparison: Orson Welles — the Welles who succeeded in creating a hoax martian invasion on the radio and who, in F for Fake (1975), got his partner Oja Kodar to walk around the streets in a miniskirt, secretly filming the lascivious expressions of the non-actor guys looking at her.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

Caché is a film that truly gets under your skin and doesn't let go.

, Raw is one of those rare cross-genre films that tells its story with so much confidence and style that it never fails to get under your skin...

More than a buddy film, Resolution explores the art of storytelling, and it does it in a way that gets right under your skin.

Documentarian Laura Poitras not only offers a complete overview of all the facts but gets under the skin of the issue by closely tracking the emotional transformation of the controversial figure at the center of her film.

The last film that I was going to review got pushed back, so I'll replace it with the best thing I saw last week, Under the Skin.

Waltz with Bashir is a haunting film that will get under your skin and move you in the deepest way possible.

It's too long and gets too frenzied as it reaches its climax, never digging as deeply under the skin as the first film did.

«The Babadook» is one of those rare films that relies on character and psychology, not blood and gore, to get under your skin.

It plays more like a dark - comedy than a horror flick simply because despite the random disturbing scenes thrown in here and there, they never really get under your skin the way you hope a horror film will.

Phillips perceptively explores the tension between the amiable Shonzi and serious Todd, and how, as brothers, they provocatively and humorously get under each other's skin — though this interplay of contrasting behaviors offers a level of idiosyncrasy that the film's too - conventional narrative ultimately skimps on.

«Under the Skin»: «Interstellar» got lots of comparisons to «2001» this year, but the film that really connects the dots to Kubrick is «Under the Skin,» the long - awaited return to filmmaking by writer - director Jonathan Glazer («Birth,» «Sexy Beast»).

Yet this long, tense film is worthwhile and never dull — both a satisfying whodunit and a debate - opener that will get under your skin and stay there.

«A philosophical yet thoroughly accessible film that effortlessly gets under the skin.»