Sentences with phrase «film humanizes»

Yes, the film humanizes Harding, through a lens so much more sympathetic than the skeptical NBC cameras that filmed her showing Olympic judges a broken shoelace.

As we wrote, the film humanizes Noni (played to perfection by Gugu Mbatha - Raw), a hypersexualized pop star, in an «intelligent, moving, and never - schmaltzy romance set in the world of music videos.»

A Yahoo! News commenter might then object that the film humanizes Oscar at the cost of looking into the mindset of the police officer who shot him.

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The cheaply produced videos he films on his iPad are managing to accomplish a nearly impossible task: to humanize Romney.

«Our trick is to depoliticize the issue and humanize the issue and that's the thing that film does beautifully,» Cuomo said.

The film's goal seems to be all about humanizing the sex addict and touting the benefits of the 12 - step program, but instead of trying to layer complex psychological insights onto the subject, it should have just focused on the corny fun of people dating when they're trying to avoid sex.

Occasional passing shots of Orthodox men garbed in traditional heavy black coats and hats have an almost Edward Gorey-esque surrealness to them, and yet what makes the film so engaging is the thoroughness with which it humanizes and renders accessible the hermetic Hasidic community of Borough Park, Brooklyn.

Even in the film's most opaque stretches, however, Bazili's tender - tough performance is a galvanizing, humanizing force.

He seems to have a rich understanding of the material (he also produced the film), but I think he lacks the range of expression required to humanize this character.

And here, with Franco's film, we get to see the humanized side to this vampire - looking artist that Hollywood had no idea what to do with.

Even the reason for a potential romance seems a forced attempt to humanize the queen; her desire for Raleigh is intercut with scenes from the first film showing her a happy, naïve girl.

[Humanizing the Nazis is] an extremely effective technique, and it makes for an extremely effective film.

Part of his attempt to humanize Snowden was to spend a large portion of the film devoted to his relationship with Lindsay Mills.

The ability to laugh — at the jokes, at themselves — is the connector, the one that humanizes the audiences Ahmed plays for to the one that watches this film.

Ironically, the film's least effective element is its effort not to do so, by way of a minor Mexican «bad guy» who's rather studiously humanized over the course of the movie.

Dredd is solid action fare which is a lot closer to its source than the Stallone film was, presenting a fantasy world that might border on fascist but for the humanizing presence of Anderson, who lets one member of Ma Ma's gang go free on the grounds that he's a victim, not a criminal.

Director Cary Fukunaga talks about the difficult casting process, working with first - time actors, and why humanizing villains was essential for his film «Beasts of No Nation,» starring Idris Elba and Abraham Attah.

Fiennes humanizes the film in a way most actors aren't allowed in Anderson's films.

If McDormand humanizes the film, it's Lynch who helps humanize her.

The film ironically feels more humanized this time around, but holds back on delivering over-the-top lock - and - load action pieces.

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Perversely, although the film is designed to (in part) humanize Jackie, I wound up feeling bad for Natalie Portman.

Both films, though unrelated, manage in their own ways to humanize a person who up to now was simply known for how she died.

The film takes the time necessary to develop the characters, humanizes ones such as Hawkeye and builds up the tension between Captain America and Iron Man that will come to fruition in «Captain America: Civil War».

It's obvious why these scenes were excised (though they serve to further humanize McNamara, they're all tangential to his 10 lessons), but the way the first and last deleted scenes serve to bookend the middle ones almost situates these forty minutes as a film onto itself.

But what CHRISTINE does far better than «the other Christine Chubbuck film» is that it humanizes an elusive figure thanks in part to Craig Shilowich's script and Rebecca Hall's fully - realized, powerful performance.

The main objective of the film is to humanize his last day on this Earth and, in that respect, the film is a tremendous success.

The Rob Zombie films have their fans, but I never liked them because they humanized Michael too much.

Some may complain that Fruitvale Station takes a one - sided approach to the incident, as the film leaves little room for humanizing the police officers (a menacing performance by Kevin Durand as a rather boisterous cop who may have played a hand in Oscar's death could only serve to enhance any of those protestations).

Thomas also enjoys discovering unsettling horror films with deeply personal values or humanizing qualities, while also being a sucker for martial arts epics and engrossing scores.

Rufus Sewell is as evil as any big film villain, but Helgeland and Sewell discreetly humanize him just enough he's not intolerable to be around.

At the film's press day, Collider sat down with the iconic longtime filmmaker to talk about why it was important to him to humanize Lyndon B. Johnson, why he wanted to win over Johnson's daughter, Luci Baines, what led him to want Woody Harrelson in the role, and the physical transformation the actor went through.

But what is certain about Three Billboards is that if this many people saw Dixon's arc as redemptive — and if we take the most charitable view, that it wasn't intended to trivialize the experiences of abused and tortured black characters in order to humanize a white character — then the problem is in the film itself, which allowed room for a reading that was counter to its intentions.

Collider: This film really humanizes Lyndon B. Johnson, in a way that we typically don't see him portrayed.

It's creepy enough to have a film where Pa Kent and Wonder Woman are love interests, but it's further compounded by groan - worthy attempts to humanize Jericho through cutesy interactions with Gadot's daughter, replete with all the toy - playing bonding scenes we've all seen a million times before.

Sutton effectively humanizes Gil in the film's first half, showing how a borderline personality is finally driven to insanity by the turmoil of outside events.

As she's pursued by the threatening yet slow - moving creature, who relentlessly trails her close behind, the film becomes something of a character study of victims, both monster and human — a zombie humanized with a happy past, and a woman desensitized by a more troubled one.

The intriguing documentary marks the feature film directorial debut of Randall Wright, who does a great job of humanizing his subject to the point where you really feel as though you know this inscrutable, if charismatic public figure.

Some complained that it lacked action, but it did what every good Superman film has to do — it humanized Clark Kent.

His superiors send him off to solve a crime in the country after he's pummeled one suspect too many, where he meets a blind girl (Ida Lupino, who may have directed some of the film while Ray was ill) who humanizes him.

The thing that this film does so well is that it humanizes these characters and makes them lovable, charming, and interesting, even when we see them sink their teeth into an unsuspecting victim.

The first film to be released from the venerable Texas theater chain the Alamo Drafthouse is a bold dark comedy from England centered on four wannabe Islamic terrorists in London bumbling their way through a series of ill - conceived plots that doesn't shy away from humanizing the young militants — a clever blend of dangerous fanaticism and perfectly - timed shock humor.

The problem is that director Forman and screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who memorably humanized Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt, do little to make the film appear to be more than a showcase for Carrey's gift for reverent mimickry.

Beautiful and touching, the scenes between Boyle and his mother lend some levity and complexity to the film and the protagonist, humanizing him beyond his seemingly one - dimensional persona.

Another element tangling the viewing experience is the fact that the creative team behind the film is entirely male: director Paul Verhoeven, novelist Philippe Djian, and screenwriter David Burke — who, interestingly, specializes in true - life horror films, often succeeding in humanizing the serial killer (Dahmer, Gacy).

Sandra Bullock remains one of the most likable actresses in American film, which is why we'll watch her play a venomous boss in the set - up portion of this film — knowing full well that she's bound to be «humanized» later on.

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.

At times it seems as if they attempted to humanize him, which leads the film into bouts of melodramatic mush, but it is essential to move the story along and creates the swells needed for the many crescendos of action and conflict throughout.

It both humanizes Hancock's self - loathing misery and shifts his conflicted identity into the realm of myth and archetype, and director Peter Berg (who likes to lace his films with a sarcastic streak) grounds the spectacle of epic disaster in both ends of the drama.