Sentences with phrase «film left me empty»

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If you're looking for a great family comedy watch Toy Story or The Sandlot instead, Mouse Hunt simply is an empty shell of a film, a film that leaves a lot to be desired.

Certain images in the film are memorable, such as Will's lingering glance at an empty, leaf - strewn swimming pool, which may inspire your longing for an adaptation of John Cheever's The Swimmer with Hamm in the title role.

A film that touches on the essence of love by throwing us into the abyss of loss, The Sweet Hereafter marks the apex of the English - Canadian film tradition as it navigates the empty space left in the wake of tragedy with a gentle, but unsentimental eye.

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

So many characters are introduced in this one film that all mutants can not possibly have their proper time in the spotlight so we are left with spot fillers, empty vessels meant to look cool but in no way push the plot forward.

The film earned more and more meaningful nominations from the Golden Globes and the International Press» Satellite Awards, the latter ceremony being one of the few Nine didn't leave empty - handed.

Some upsets of the evening included Leonardo DiCaprio, «Inside Llewyn Davis,» and «Captain Phillips» leaving empty handed, although a film in which DiCaprio starred («The Great Gatsby») won awards for costume design and production.

Panahi's children and the cast of his film Three Faces were welcomed with thunderous applause as they arrived for the gala screening late on May 12, where one seat was left symbolically empty for the dissident director.

If Richard J. Lewis's film proved too MOR to impress Quentin Tarantino's jury (even Paul Giamatti, much fancied for the Best Actor prize, left empty - handed) it was nonetheless enthusiastically received on the Lido, earning sustained applause, and even a few whoops, at the industry screening I attended.

Since he died in the first film, however, we're left with a charming - but - empty Odd Couple thing with Frank and Marvin, the occasional hilarious scene with a highly underused Mirren, and the younger players (Parker and Byung - hun) dancing around them trying to get an action picture made.

Unfortunately, the film's aggressive and prolific portrayal of violence leaves the streets strewn with enough spent lead and empty cartridges to also pave all 16 Blocks.

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Some of the most haunting scenes in Preminger films are those in which dialogue ceases, multivoicedness dies down, and a character is left to confront his or her own enigma in silence: e.g., McPherson in Laura's apartment; Dan (Dana Andrews) with the milk bottle in Daisy Kenyon; Diana (Jean Simmons) waiting for Frank (Robert Mitchum) in the empty house in Angel Face; the brief solitudes of Cécile (Jean Seberg) in Bonjour Tristesse (1958); Brig (Don Murray) returning to his office to commit suicide in Advise and Consent; Fermoyle in his room in Vienna in The Cardinal; Henry (Michael Caine) alone in his house in Hurry Sundown.

His clips of light slowly crossing a table knife or leaves falling on an empty chair echo Hollis Frampton's shot of a lemon, a six - hour movie by Michael Snow that may at first seem more like an eternity, and the still longer underground film of the Empire State Building by Andy Warhol, and indeed Warhol's last decade corresponded with the Pictures generation.