Sentences with phrase «film is both timely»

Like last year's American Honey, Baker's film is a timely paradox — call it magical neorealism — depicting hardscrabble poverty without the attendant sermonizing.

This new archive footage based film is a timely and loaded look behind the cameras

A kind of Rogue One for All the President's Men, the film is a timely, terrifying and ultimately rousing movie in an era of daily presidential threats against the free press.

This film is timely.

This film is timely given the release of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk back in July.

Not exact matches

With the much - discussed Hollywood film Won't Back Down making educational waves, Tough's book is not only timely but germane to the larger public dialogue about improving teaching and learning in all schools — public, private and independent.

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As we've come to expect from these type films, the dialogue is loaded with numerous goofy puns and timely pop - culture references that always provide entertainment for the grown - ups, but I don't think we've ever had them thrown at us at such a machine - gun like pace.

With film labs closing down and new formats springing up all the time, this is a timely stock - take of 21st Century cinema.

Journalism has been fighting a losing battle against the internet, and the advertising industry, since the mid-1990s, and films such as The Post — which is timely on so many levels — show us once again just what has been lost.

As a demonstration of slighted masculinity being given an inch, taking a mile, and chewing it up with breakneck fury, the film could hardly be more timely or disconcerting.

To be clear, Cooper's film is not an exhibition on gun - slinging, nor does it set out to overwhelm viewers, although its few action scenes are both brutal and timely.

As it chugs towards its conclusion, the film suffers from a common case of too many endings, including a fitting one that features Pope Francis offering up a final sermon about his own philosophy with advice that's characteristically timely and universal.

But it is a generous, heartfelt film, full of color and music, one that offers a timely Thanksgiving tribute to the intergenerational importance of family.

Critic Consensus: While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists» real - life crimes.

This film is a pretty timely one.

Critics Consensus: While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists» real - life crimes.

Since its true story is still so timely after some 150 years, we can forgive this film for being somewhat dull in the way the events are recounted.

It's a funny film whose subject matter remains timely even a decade later.

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

Greengrass was previously nominated for Best Director for United 93 and Captain Phillips has him once again navigating timely material, so it's possible that the film could draw multiple nods.

It's not Romeo and Juliette or about issues related to contemporary society, but it's mostly a timeless film rather than timely — and that's intentional.»

And if Spielberg's film is as timely as a morning edition blaring an urgent headline, it's also a knowing entry in a long - running series: the newspaper movie.

The films are all extremely timely, with «City of Ghosts» taking on added resonance as the Trump administration has devoted much of its first weekend to criticizing journalists.

The original 1984 film had the kids fighting the U.S.S.R., but since they're no more, MGM thought it'd be a good idea to go with a timelier enemy, China.

During the interview, Hooper talked about if he felt any pressure following up Les Miserables and The Kings Speech, the experience of making a film about transgender issues when the subject is so timely, when he first realized Redmayne and Vikander would deliver such tremendous performances, deleted scenes, how his first cut compared to the finished film, if he's conscious of making «awards» films and whether he want to break out of that, future projects, and so much more.

EXCLUSIVE: Eye in the Sky — the drama about drone strikes — is so timely that distributor Bleecker Street is using President Barack Obama's speech about the new technology as the voice - over for the film's TV spot, which is debuting tonight during the Republican debate (watch it above).

«The Messenger,» filmed in and around Fort Dix, N.J., is about two Army officers assigned to work for the Casualty Notification Office — an all - too - timely subject.

The story of the Washington Post's role in publishing the Pentagon Papers is a timely one, but I think All the President's Men and Spotlight are better newspaper films.

The film's never been more timely.

When the film premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival in March where it took home the Audience Award for Narrative Feature Competition, nobody could have predicted just how timely it would be upon the release in early November.

«The Kindergarten Teacher,» starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, will be part of a timely lineup of Sundance films with dominant female leads.

Set against the backdrop of the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era after World War II, Mudbound is both a timeless and timely film following two families — one black, one white — bound together by the hardships of farm life.

I apologize on behalf of my Online Film Critics Society, who didn't give the film a single nomination despite screeners having been sent in a timely fashion to our American majority.

Its themes are timely but the race includes flashier and more subtle films than this.

The Pentagon Papers film could play very strongly overall (the film and Spielberg are in our top 5) for its eerily timely subject matter.

The real Desmond Tutu commented on the film: «This timely, compelling and intelligent film, movingly, and above all humanely, captures what it felt like to be working with those selfless members of the TRC who strove, often against the odds, to help bring both truth and reconciliation to the ordinary people of South Africa.»

«Dunkirk» is big and bold and «The Post» is serious and timely, but the film with the most Globe nominations, «The Shape of Water,» is gloriously imaginative filmmaking whose biggest competition might have been two films that ended up being categorized as comedies, «Get Out» and «Lady Bird.»

And while I still don't think it's a particularly good film, the release is timely and completely and unexpectedly relevant.

With one of the deadliest wildfires in the state's history raging in California, it doesn't seem likely many people will want to see a movie about a tragic wildfire, but Only The Brave is a solid film that is a timely reminder of what is at risk when a wildfire breaks out.

The film stands as a testament to the devastation and destruction that war visits upon the most innocent, and its story couldn't be more timely or relevant.

On its own merit, the film is quite staggering and very timely with other stories from the U.S. soil of similar nature.

An intriguing combination of drama and documentary, this Swiss film tells a simple story that's compelling and still timely, addressing issues of equality and prejudice from an often startlingly personal perspective.

Half Magic just debuted their red band trailer and the timely film about the fight against sexism and bad men proves it's a must see!

Guillermo del Toro's timely romantic fable, «The Shape of Water,» took home two top honors, Best Film and Best Director, while Varda's latest film, «Faces Places,» was crowned Best Documentary.

Cooper said his film, which deals with themes of racial intolerance, feels more timely than he ever envisioned it would be when he was writing it.

With the bellicose pronouncements from Pyongyang making headlines recently, there's no doubt Olympus Has Fallen — essentially a film about the White House being overrun by North Korean terrorists — couldn't be more timely.

In the past, many Bond films have featured timely topics that seem to be — in the immortal words of Law of Order — «ripped from the headlines.»

Timely as ever, Ziad Doueiri's film takes a look at a seemingly insignificant squabble between a Lebanese Christian man and a Palestinian refugee who is brought in to fix a drainpipe.

Add to all of this that the film is very timely and you have a very appealing and tempting FLF formula.