Sentences with phrase «film hits its stride»

The film hits its stride, however, when the three buddies leave Amsterdam and head for Paris by train.

When the film hits its stride during a dinner scene where everyone's character emerges, it is electric.

Luckily, once the romance appears, the film hits its stride beautifully, with spot - on portrayals by DiCaprio and Danes in the lead roles.

It is in this instant that the film hits its stride, sidestepping the typical middle - aged loner angst of its first act and setting off down the path of examining this far more deranged character, a textbook case of a mama's boy taken to the point of excess.

Not exact matches

We expect this to be the moment where the film really hits its stride, or at the very least ends on something of a high note.

She began appearing in films in 1968, hitting her stride with such movies as Gator (1976), American Gigolo (1978), and Zorro, the Gay Blade (1981).

But Annihilation really hits its stride at the point where lesser films jump the shark.

In 2001, Hartnett hit a stride by starring in three features: he portrayed the antagonist in the film O, a modern day version of Othello.

It isn't until the film's last 30 - minutes or so that the biopic (on Philippe Petit, the subject of the acclaimed doco Man on the Wire) really hits its stride, serving up a welcomingly exciting, breathtaking stunt that will have IMAX audiences both cheering and vomiting simultaneously.

It's when Whedon indulges his more esoteric instincts that the film really hits its stride, particularly with a series of spell - induced nightmares shared by Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson).

During our interview, which we'll post in full closer to the film's release date, «The Squid and the Whale» director, who shot «Frances» on the quick and quiet (hardly anyone knew it even existed until it premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last year), dished on some of his upcoming projects and it seems he's hitting a prolific stride.

No franchise has reinvented itself by making three prequels to an installment nobody saw, no franchise has hit their creative stride at the fifth film, and no other franchise has given me The Rock and Vin Diesel fighting each other.

Highly acclaimed playwright and screenwriter David Mamet (The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross) takes the helm as director for the seventh time, and while he's certainly done better as a writer, this is the film where he finally hits his stride as director.

However, Shyamalan hit his stride again with Signs, which made over $ 200 million and remains his second - highest - grossing film to date.

After headlining a half - dozen forgettable movies that wasted his talent, it seems that Franco's film career has finally hit its stride.

The film is a wildly mixed bag, seeming to hit its stride every few minutes only to be undercut by prolonged periods of stupidity and redundancy.

Beginning his career as one of Takashi Miike's go - tos in films like The Way to Fight and The Man in White, hitting his stride in Ryuhei Kitamura's Azumi and Godzilla: Final Wars, and even turning up as one of the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill, actor Kazuki Kitamura is one of Japan's most recognizable faces.

The film feels like it doesn't hit its stride until two - thirds of the way through, when Davis unleashes Kendrick.

Duane Hopkins's latest film boasts strong performances from its leads, but fails to hit its stride quite soon enough, writes Xan Brooks

Exploitation movies hit their stride in the decade, boldly flouting moral conventions with graphic sex («I Spit on Your Grave,» «Vampyros Lesbos») and violence -LRB-» The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,» «The Hills Have Eyes»), the latter reflected particularly in a spate of zombie movies («Dawn of the Dead») and cannibal films («The Man From Deep River»).

The result is a film that offers some big laughs, great comic performances, but never hits its stride.

It breaks stride with Cusack's past vehicles in that it displays him frequently in athletic motion (the kickboxing of Say Anything... notwithstanding) and rides something of a zeitgeist: It's a post-Pulp Fiction artifact, from that cascade of films after 1994 (The Big Hit, The Boondock Saints, The Way of the Gun) that depict professional thugs as humanized and humorous.

As Last Flag Flying eases into being a road - trip film (a distinctly American genre I didn't realize I missed so much until I was riding sidecar), Linklater, always better at time - constrained narratives, hits his stride, the guys» camaraderie making Cranston's shenanigans almost palatable.

Like other high energy, frenetic comedies (Blues Brothers, Austin Powers), it's one of those films you either fall in love with and forgive the bad parts, or you're frustrated by due to it seeming to falter whenever it seems to finally hit its stride.

After a ten - day, 23 - film Venice Competition that started slowly but respectably, hit a healthy stride midway through and began wheezing with exhaustion in its closing stages, things have finally ground to a permanent halt with «Texas Killing Fields» (**), the sophomore feature from Ami Canaan Mann — daughter of Michael, who predictably takes a producer -LSB-...]

To put it mildly, L.A. Story is an uneven film and just when it seems to hit its stride, the film changes directions.