Sentences with phrase «film has happy endings»

The film has happy endings for all involved, but I still felt my stomach twist at the white - washed cluster of women in comedy, and how a man's portrayal of them resulted in shell - shocked, nervous, and unmotivated characters (despite the constant hints at the hard work they do off screen).

Does this film have a happy ending?

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He added: «The team were able to inhibit the activity of the enzyme that controls the «scene» ensuring that the film always has a happy ending — reversing the resistance of cancer cells.

The film's infinitely more interesting questions do not have to do with John's expedition to emotional health, but its occasional observations regarding gendered expectations and desires, particularly within the confines of middle class «happy endings.»

For some reason, the film, directed by Josh Crook, has a schmaltzy happy ending that's out of step with the rest of the story.

Even admitting that films like Cache (Hidden), The White Ribbon and Amour have raised the bar higher and higher, Happy End feels like it's pulling its punches and not in their league.

The only thing I disliked was the lack of closure at the end, but it was enough to keep me happy, I just wanted a bit more, even five minutes would've made more sense, but overall, the film was amazing, a must see... Soo under rated.

Perhaps the best way to understand the film is not as a romantic comedy but as a romantic tragedy, a sentiment matched by Beattie after learning that studio execs had added a happy ending and renamed the film Head Over Heels: «[It sounded] as if Fred Astaire should be dancing across the credits.»

The final few minutes of the film are an unconvincing wish fulfillment of a happy ending, almost cynically devised given that all these years later, Gordon hasn't changed.

One thing you should know about the Reader's year - end film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 20end film rankings is that, from time immemorial, we've limited the candidates to movies that premiered locally between January 1 and December 31 — that's why Toni Erdmann, a big awards favorite in 2016, wasn't eligible until this year, and a handful of highly touted films premiering on the coasts now to qualify for the Oscars (such as Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread and Michael Haneke's Happy End) won't be considered until 20End) won't be considered until 2018.

A bit of a romance brews slowly between them, but it comes off as artificial, merely contrived as the film draws to the conclusion in the hopes of having happier endings for both of them.

Steven Soderbergh) A coming out party in 2002 for Clooney as not only director but also actor, Steven Soderbergh's Solaris is a film of substance and a palpable sadness, shirking easy answers (like so many films this year, its ending has been misunderstood as happy) while posing existential questions with a solemn poetry.

Animated feature «The Croods» «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Frozen» «Monsters University» «The Wind Rises» Action movie «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Iron Man 3» WINNER: «Lone Survivor» «Rush» «Star Trek Into Darkness» Actor in an action movie Henry Cavill — «Man of Steel» Robert Downey Jr. — «Iron Man 3» Brad Pitt — «World War Z» WINNER: Mark Wahlberg — «Lone Survivor» Actress in an action movie WINNER: Sandra Bullock — «Gravity» Jennifer Lawrence — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» Evangeline Lilly — «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» Gwyneth Paltrow — «Iron Man 3» Comedy WINNER: «American Hustle» «Enough Said» «The Heat» «This Is the End» «The Way Way Back» «The World's End» Actor in a comedy Christian Bale — «American Hustle» WINNER: Leonardo DiCaprio — «The Wolf of Wall Street» James Gandolfini — «Enough Said» Simon Pegg — «The World's End» Sam Rockwell — «The Way Way Back» Actress in a comedy WINNER: Amy Adams — «American Hustle» Sandra Bullock — «The Heat» Greta Gerwig — «Frances Ha» Julia Louis - Dreyfus — «Enough Said» Melissa McCarthy — «The Heat» Sci - fi / horror movie «The Conjuring» WINNER: «Gravity» «Star Trek Into Darkness» «World War Z» Foreign language film WINNER: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» «The Great Beauty» «The Hunt» «The Past» «Wadjda» Documentary feature «The Act of Killing» «Blackfish» «Stories We Tell» «Tim's Vermeer» WINNER: «20 Feet from Stardom» Song «Atlas» — Coldplay — «The Hunger Games: Catching Fire» «Happy» — Pharrell Williams — «Despicable Me 2» WINNER: «Let It Go» — Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson - Lopez — «Frozen» «Ordinary Love» — U2 — «Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom» «Please Mr. Kennedy» — Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver — «Inside Llewyn Davis» «Young and Beautiful» — Lana Del Rey — «The Great Gatsby» Score WINNER: Steven Price — «Gravity» Arcade Fire — «Her» Thomas Newman — «Saving Mr. Banks» Hans Zimmer — «12 Years a Slave»

«Happy End» is a much more meandering, less contained film though, and it doesn't have a central, gripping mystery like «Hidden» and «The White Ribbon».

Amour director and Cannes staple Michael Haneke has a film in competition this year, a drama about the French refugee crisis called Happy End.

A film that appeals to the pessimist in us, Irréversible may make you think of Memento, but where Memento was about destiny, Irréversible is cynicially hopeful (if there is such a thing), illustrating the human impulse to look to the past for happy endings — Bogey's bogus reassurance that «we'll always have Paris.»

The happy ending most have accused the picture of is actually much in line with the ambiguous open - endings of Kurosawa's best horror films.

While at the Toronto International Film Festival for the North American premiere of Happy End, which opens this week in New York, Haneke sat down with me to talk about his early experiences falling in love with cinema and the films that have shaped his singular aesthetic.

Copying the model of many of his previous vehicles with Seth Rogen — who has the supporting role of a baffled script supervisor — Franco plays up the odd - couple bromance between Wiseau and Sestero, which gives him the like - hate - love trajectory an audience can find reassuring, and equips the film with a ready - made happy ending.

Happy Death Day came really close to having a very dark ending, in spite of the film being fairly lighthearted for a horror movie.

A film more sure of itself would have dispatched this impediment to happiness with quick dispatch, but the makers of Hitch - a film that overstays its welcome by a good half - hour - seem to be the only filmmakers in Hollywood to not know how to put together a fast happy ending, preferring instead to pile on the false climaxes and unnecessary plot wrinkles.

None of the films he has made have had happy endings.

And the film even has the perfect bittersweet conclusion, which it then, unfortunately, ignores in favor of a completely unbelievable and illogical happy ending that feels as it had been mandated by studio test - screenings where the audience was unhappy with the original outcome.

His latest, «Happy End» (don't believe that title for a second), feels like a kick in the teeth of the earlier film, as though someone had accused European cinema's high - minded provocateur of going soft and his response has been to reprise the suffering of «Amour» but cancel the warmth completely.

The film is compelling for the first half but descends slowly downhill after his wife's suicide ultimately culminating in an unsatisfying and unhappy «happy» ending that would have been better left undone (There was another ending shot for the film that was even more unsatisfying which thankfully they did not use).

While the movie does earn some credit for sidestepping the typical, cheap happy ending, there are no new ideas to set it apart from the plethora of cookie - cutter, disappointing horror films that have come out in recent years.

The ending of this film is perhaps the biggest botch - up job, as if they had no idea how to tie it up, except to give us half - baked conspiracy notions, and unlike the Lemony Snicket books, an attempt at a happy ending, which sort of goes against the premise of these children never really finding happiness.

The best of the Cannes films engaging with those topics is Michael Haneke's Happy End, a chilling tale of a wealthy family whose blindness to their privilege — and to the immigrants in their hometown of Calais, where one of Europe's biggest migrant crises has been going on for years — has turned them into monsters.

And like Scream, what was once a satirical streak soon begins to embrace the convention by the end of the film, which will either work or not, depending on whether you enjoy the typically cheesy, would - never - happen - in - real - life happy endings that rom - coms traditionally provide.

In Sandler's long and successful career in film, however, there have been moments that have betrayed an underlying appreciation of family, and a strong tendency to prefer the warm and fuzzy happy ending rather than a much more modern realism.

Plus, what other film would have Paul Reiser head to a «happy ending» massage parlor (armed with a gift certificate given to him by his wife), and encounter Lake Bell, on her first and only day on the job, as the world's worst masseuse?

They stuck to their guns and left the film intact, but appealed the decision, and in this case the story actually has a happy ending.

The new film by Michael Haneke is not happy and doesn't have an ending.

Cannes hasn't been the best launching point for major Oscar contenders as of late (for winners, at least) so looking to the two highest profile films that lost — Wonderstruck and Happy End — I don't think their losses here will have a big impact on their awards chances.

One of the main factors that attract so many of us to sports films is that they usually have a happy ending.

Sporting a new haircut for her current project (the sci - fi film «Annihilation» from «Ex Machina» director Alex Garland), Rodriguez got candid about her journey to success, talking about the days when she would sustain herself on little more than ramen while working as an extra and later as a guest star on shows like «Happy Endings.»

Unfortunately, it just ends up being an unfunny mess that squanders a lot of comic talent and further tarnishes whatever happy memories viewers had of the first film.

The result is a film that has an extended series of endings — culminating in a silly epilogue that looks and feels awfully fake — but given what she's been through, Katniss has earned a happy ending.

Past Oscar contenders Isabelle Huppert (Michael Haneke's «Happy End»), Tilda Swinton (Bong Joon Ho's «Okja»), Emma Thompson (Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories»), Michelle Willams and Julianne Moore (Todd Haynes» «Wonderstruck»), Jeremy Renner («Wind River»), Al Gore («An Inconvenient Sequel»), Berenice Bejo (Jean - Luc Godard biopic «Godard Mon Amour») and Marion Cotillard (Arnaud Desplechin's «Ismael's Ghosts») all had films in Cannes last year, but none wound up in the Oscar race.

If anything, A.I. would seem the anti-Spielbergian film, where kids are cruel, society is cold, and a happy ending seems eternally out of reach.

The film does not have a happy ending, but neither does it end sadly.

In addition to Law & Order SVU, March has appeared in critically acclaimed films and television shows including «30 Rock,» «Happy Endings,» «Rescue Me,» «Grey's Anatomy,» «Mr. & Mrs. Smith,» «The Invention of Lying,» «The Treatment,» «Predisposed,» and «Innocence.»