Sentences with phrase «film high marks»

Not exact matches

Sometimes films with extremely high scores on the critical aggregator often miss the mark for the majority of audiences.

This Friday marks the release of the eighth installment of the Fast & Furious films, the long - running, high - octane action franchise that revolves around Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his motley crew of street racers - turned - international - crime - fighters - who - are - also - kind - of - criminals.

«Just Go with It» has major problems with its lack of wit and exhausted repeated jokes, but thankfully, Aniston's performance is able to boost up the comedy in the film; adding to an amount that ranks higher than many other films that try the same formula of comedy as of this film With Sandler's and Aniston's connection being believable, «Just Go with It» manages to hit the mark for several adults and teens to enjoy.

Arthouse specialist Kino Lorber typically scores well with critics for its mix of documentaries and foreign films, and 2013 marked a slight improvement over scores that were already fairly high in 2012.

The Oscar best picture winner each year is marked with a star -LRB--RRB-, while each year's highest - scoring film is marked with a.

Fox had seven films surpass the $ 300 million mark globally (more than any other studio), led by X-Men: Days of Future Past, the fifth - highest grossing movie of 2014 worldwide.

This film, for which Dix was himself Oscar - nominated, would remain the high water mark of his talkie career, which gradually diminished into inexpensive programmers and westerns.

The 1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image was shot in Super 35 mm by Director of Photography Mark Irwin, C.S.C. / A.S.C., giving it the same lame school look emphasizing the same color schemes typical of such films shot in California.

The film, which shattered both domestic and international box office records, is Disney's highest - grossing global and domestic release of all time and marked the studio's fifth film to gross more than $ 1 billion worldwide.

Director Jonathan Demme has a gift for framing rock performance, having directed countless superb concert films, including Stop Making Sense, widely seen as the high - water mark of the genre.

The final outing in the series for Shia LaBeouf and co (though Megan Fox was replaced here already, after falling out with Bay), with John Malkovich and Frances McDormand among those paying for new houses with a few weeks work, the film does at least have a striking moon - landing themed opening, and an enormous extended climax that marks a high watermark for the franchise's action (particularly an impressive Halo jump sequence done for real).

«Westworld,» the 1973 sci - fi film conceived by novelist Michael Crichton that marked his directorial debut, is often regarded a high - concept precursor to his later work, «Jurassic Park,» in which a high - tech amusement park descends into chaos when its primary attractions — in this case automated denizens of an idealized Old West, rather than T - Rexes and velociraptors — turn on the attendees.

The release comes from Twilight Time and marks the first time the film has been released in high definition.

Her «Oscar clip» scene is laugh - out - loud bad and not near the authenticity Demme and company thought it would be, while the film itself isn't worth much beyond high marks for DeWitt and a pat on the back for Anne Hathaway.

In 1980, Robert De Niro delivered an Oscar - winning performance as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, the Martin Scorsese masterpiece that set a high water mark for both biographical narratives and boxing films.

Its sequel, «Despicable Me 2,» did gangbusters numbers, just $ 30 million shy of hitting the vaunted $ 1 billion mark, making for the third highest grossing animated film of all time behind «Frozen» and «Toy Story 3.»

Rushmore is also something of a high - water mark for Anderson, who is the inadvertent godfather of an irritatingly quirky school of US cinema that grew out of the late 1990s and came to give us such annoying films as Napoleon Dynamite and I Heart Huckabees.

We reached a kind of high - water mark with the Pirates of the Caribbean films — the second Pirates cost $ 225 million to make and the third cost $ 300 million to make.

The film, starring Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy, was for a brief period the highest - grossing film in the U.K. (until it got pushed out by another titanic film on our list).

The excitement around Black Panther doesn't exist in a vacuum; the film is the latest in a string of high - water - mark moments for a black pop culture landscape that's experiencing a renaissance.

«Lucy» marks Johansson's top opening as the lead in a film and is one of the highest openings ever for an R - rated action movie starring a female.

Given that Demme's Stop Making Sense represents the high - water mark of the concert film as a genre, it should come as no surprise that Ricki And The Flash's musical numbers — filmed live, with Streep singing and playing rhythm guitar — are uniformly superb.

Few filmmakers in Hollywood or abroad have proven to be both as prolific and accomplished as Japan's Takashi Miike, whose 100th film Blade of the Immortal marks another high point in his diverse 26 - year career.

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.

Mark Hamill said it was an honour to accept the award given the high standard of Irish film from «the energy from The Commitments to the tragedy of Angela's Ashes».

This is his fifth collaboration with star Leonardo DiCaprio, but marks just his second feature shot digitally and combines a loosely mob - inflected story with a topical, high - finance setting, and so overall the film promises to deliver an exciting blend of the old and the new from the director.

They're really wonderful and add a distinctive tone to a film that didn't need to do so in order to impress us, but get high marks anyways.

After making four high - octane action films with Mark Neveldine (including Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance and both Crank movies), Brian Taylor goes solo with this high - concept thriller about kids in peril.

The one exception has been Tyler Perry, whose more comedic films have passed the $ 50 million mark and even rose as high as $ 90 M with his drag act Madea in a title role.

It is a landmark entertainment, and the high water mark for a director who, for an incandescent period of time, sought to elevate the splatter / slasher film into the auspices of high art.

New to this edition are the featurettes «A Ticking Clock» with film editor Mark Goldblatt (6 minutes), «A Stanley Kramer Production» with filmmaker and film historian Michael Schlesinger (14 minutes), «Imitation of Life: The Blacklist History of High Noon» with historian Larry Ceplair and blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein (10 minutes), and he visual essay «Oscars and Ulcers: The Production History of High Noon» narrated by Anton Yelchin (12 minutes).

While the film is being praised by other critics (higher marks than both previous Avengers films) you don't see much happening here that we haven't already seen in the other 13 films.

Marking Joon - ho's English - language debut, Snowpiercer still ranks in the top 10 South Korean films of all time, so hype is high surrounding the series.

Launched in 2003 by visionary entrepreneur Mark Cuban, the linear TV network and VOD service programs a diverse slate of top Hollywood films in beautiful high definition.

Rounding out the top 10 you have «The Fault In Our Stars» (almost over $ 110 million domestically), «X-Men Days Of Future Past» (crossing the coveted $ 700 million mark worldwide, around $ 223m at home which suggests Brett Ratner's X - film will still hold the highest grossing Mutant film Stateside) and Jon Favreau's «Chef» which, like almost every weekend of its 8 weeks of release, had the best hold with only an 8 % drop.

Selma is urgent and timely, and now I understand why it has plowed its way through some of the other higher profile films to mark its entry as a strong contender this awards season.

Again, in the book, it's Peeta who has drawn Rue (using the same artistic skill that had him so amusingly camouflage himself in the first film), which affects the judges deeply so they mark him high, but none of this is alluded to in the film and so it's really not clear how or why the Rue painting is there and why it's significant.

The film is is a high - water mark in the careers of its director, actors, and cowriter.

Here's the latest official movie poster for the upcoming action film «Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance» aka Ghost Rider 2 by directors Mark Neveldine (Crank: High Voltage, Crank, Gamer) and Brian Taylor and starring Nicolas Cage (Drive Angry 3D, Trespass, The Croods), Violante Placido (The American, Sleepless), Idris Elba (Thor, The Big C), Ciaran Hinds (Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, The Woman in Black) and Christopher Lambert (The Chauffeur, Highlander).

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American rights to «The Silent Man,» a film about the life of Mark Felt, the secret high - ranking FBI informant during the Watergate scandal, famously known as «Deep Throat.»

Written by Mark Boal, the film follows her investigation, from flipping through piles of dusty loose - leaf files to celebrating with ground troops holding high the head of their iconic target.

After an unsuccessful attempt with a «Cat People» remake at Warner Bros, Bill Condon and producer Michael Laughlin decided to collaborate on Condon's early version of «Dead Kids,» and with assistance from Hemdale and tax incentives from the New Zealand government, began production in northern New Zealand, with an eclectic mix of American actors: Dan Shor had recently appeared in John Huston's «Wise Blood»; Dey Young had just debuted in «Rock and Roll High School»; Michael Murphy was a Woody Allen alumnus; and Mark McClure had achieved a kind of immortality as Jimmy Olson in the «Superman» films.

It marks the third collaboration between Johnson, Peyton, Flynn and Garcia, following the international blockbuster hit San Andreas, Warner Bros.» highest grossing film of 2015, as well as 2012's global smash Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

Ultimately, the film can be deemed mediocre from a critical standpoint, but The Pacifier seems more interested in meriting laughs and applause from moviegoers than earning high marks from reviewers.

The bar was set high for Deadpool 2, star and co-writer Ryan Reynolds» hotly - anticipated sequel to the 2016 blockbuster, which during its theatrical run became only the third R - rated film in movie history to crack the $ 300 million mark at the domestic box office.

Foregoing CGI for live stunts more than previous Marvel films, Winter Soldier sets a high - water mark for the studio, with sequences that are fluid, dynamic, and exceptionally well choreographed.

potential folly, but it would prove to be one of high points of his legendary career — a viewing experience of stunning emotional power utterly devoid of the usual chilly detachment that marked his films.

The film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, whose seven beloved Harry Potter books were adapted into one of the highest grossing film franchises of all time.

While Carell has the showiest of the roles, playing an especially creepy man who has delusions of grandeur, partially due to being born into a family with exceedingly high expectations to continue the tradition of excellence, it's really for the performances of Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum that the film ultimately succeeds.

This film stays with you long after you leave the cinema, like a high - tide mark.