Its soundtrack has continued to top the charts months after
the film left theaters.
Not exact matches
It's not often that one
leaves a movie
theater feeling speechless, but anyone on the right side of the culture wars who views the recent
film Blast from the Past will find his jaw scraping the sidewalk» and not out of disgust.
One woman who saw the
film said, «I
left the
theater feeling sick.
I was expecting more from this
film based on the critical acclaim it garnered but
left the
theater disappointed.
It's a smart and emotion - filled
film that will stay with you well after you
leave the
theater — and not many summer blockbusters can do that.
A sequel to the
film was originally announced just months after Bertino's feature hit
theaters, but it's taken nearly a decade for «The Strangers: Prey at Night» to arrive, a sort - of sequel that gleefully exists in the same universe as «The Strangers,» without being beholden to demands that it pick up precisely where the first
film chillingly
left off.
But I personally believe that's what the best
films should do — make you think deeply, feel deeply, and
leave the
theater a changed person in some way.
It all boils into an ultimately wrenching conclusion where a most unlikely character sacrifices it all to save the group, but with a tantalizing hope that the third
film will handle a character arc that had fanboys
leaving the
theater salivating at the prospect of a third
film.
It's a
film you can
leave the
theater with knowing you at least had a good time.
The
film would open in US
theaters three months after Hitchcock
left this Earth, demonstrating quickly that the Master of Suspense's work would give him immortality, a fact that feels no less true thirty - five years later.
«I think Elio [the young man played Timothee Chalamet] will be a cinephile and I'd like him to be in a movie
theater watching Paul Vecchiali's Once More,» a 1988
film about a man who falls in love with a man after he
leaves his wife, which was the first French movie to deal with AIDS.
As a comedy, it might make you smirk or lightly chuckle on a couple of occasions, mostly due to a few low - scale, size - related sight gags, but it's doubtful you'll be quoting the
film for any hilarious one - liners once you
leave the
theater.
Audience members cast ballots for
films by depositing their ticket stubs as they
leave the
theater, or by entering their ticket numbers online.
And it's not just Catholics who have a visceral reaction: News footage
filmed at movie
theaters during The Exorcist's original theatrical run shows people, many of them women,
leaving midway through the movie short of breath and clutching their chests.
The 54 - year - old director
left a successful run in British
theater and television to tackle a striking range of genres on
film: horror, romantic comedy, family drama, thriller, dark comedy, among others.
And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of
film we've
left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in
theaters until 2014.
For those who enjoy a unique
film experience rather than simply being spoon - fed the plot or just wanting to
leave the
theater with that warm fuzzy feeling.
The movie, which will be released in
theaters tomorrow, also gripping
leaves audiences questioning who it strong - willed characters are, and how their circumstances connect with the hit monster horror
film, «Cloverfield.»
As I
left the
theater, wiping the tears from my face I wondered if I could do this
film any justice with my review.
It's the first
film in a long time that made me so angry to have completely wasted 129 minutes of my life that I
left the
theater seething.
In the end, what the
film doesn't have in heart it makes up for in action and creative animation (I still get a kick out of seeing some of my son's more unique Lego pieces make an appearance, like Lego flames or the Lego shark), and you will certainly
leave the
theater with a smile on your face.
The
film, starring Michael Eklund («Alcatraz,» «The Call»), Karoline Herfurth, Tómas Lemarquis and Rik Mayall,
left a lot of sitting in the
theater for a couple of minutes after the
film ended.
Coming from the US, I take as much as I can from
films that depict a culture I am unfamiliar with, but having the opportunity to discuss the technique and story of a French drama with someone who is more than familiar with the director's work and the social commentary surrounding a
film brings about a whole new understanding and experience from what I initially
left the
theater with.
I thought more about this
film, upon
leaving the
theater, than any I've seen in recent memory.
With just a few weeks
left until the
film hits
theaters, the marketing blitz has started to hit the small screen, and two new Solo A Star Wars Story TV spots have arrived to tease the spin - off that could start a whole new franchise.
We've got just a few weeks
left until we find out whether Han Solo's origin
film is worth a damn when the spin - off Solo: A Star Wars Story hits
theaters.
Yelchin just wrapped
filming on Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline and the
film Only Lovers
Left Alive which is set to enter
theaters soon.
Second, after the first big twist about a half - hour into the
film, you might think you're in for an icky, misogynist torture porn, and momentarily wish to
leave the
theater.
This relatable aspect of The Big Sick is what takes it from simply being a funny
film with human moments to something that sticks with you long after you
leave the
theater.
Being a
film adaptation of a television show, I wasn't at all expecting much, but I
left the
theater wanting to watch the movie again in much the same way I did after my first viewing of Olympus Has Fallen.
The
film, which is considered a leader in the Oscar race for Best Picture after triumphant screenings in Toronto and Telluride, won the strongest reaction from TIFF - goers who deposited their ticket stubs while
leaving the
theater or cast ballots online.
Serkis is great but the
film is a familiar freak show of hardship and ego run amok: a mad man of a singer - songwriter who, physically crippled by childhood polio that
left an arm and a leg emaciated and nearly useless, blasts his way to stardom with cheeky lyrics and a stage act heavy on
theater, while off stage fails as a husband (to artist Olivia Williams, tired of his self - involved existence), father (to impressionable son Bill Milner) and boyfriend (to adoring Naomie Harris).
When Cooper took a print of the
film to Austin, Texas to screen it for Kristofferson, the actor / musician abruptly
left the
theater when the credits rolled.
We know this before we even step into the
theater, and The Stanford Prison Experiment succeeds because it brings our fears to life, and while Alvarez may have wanted to
leave his audience with a breather, his
film works far better when it's making us gasp at humanity's fragile morality.
However, given the
film's obnoxiously unfunny opening, Google doesn't come off like a place you might actually want to work out until more than an hour into the story (when all but the most masochistic members of the audience will have
left the
theater to demand their money back from director Shawn Levy.)
In what should've been a compelling, rousing rallying cry for justice, I was instead
left weary, tired and ready to
leave the
theater at the
film's halfway point.
In
theaters September 13, «The famed horror team of director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell reunite with the original cast of Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey and Ty Simpkins in INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2, a terrifying sequel to the acclaimed horror
film, which follows the haunted Lambert family as they seek to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has
left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.»
That same one can be forgiven if one had expected more from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, those deliciously subversive elves who nail popular culture in all its absurdist splendor on their television show, «South Park», and who had us all humming «Blame Canada» as we
left the
theater after seeing the
film version, suggestively, but correctly subtitled: BIGGER LONGER & UNCUT.
Happily, the team, together with partner Jane (Olivia Wilde), let us in on how this is done in the story's final scene, but one thing you can count on: nobody in the movie
theaters around the country are going to
leave their seats and disappear before this
film is over.
And you would think that, with just a few days
left before the
film reaches
theaters, all entry points for marketing and promotion have been exhausted.
The
film does end somewhat abruptly, but this is a cliffhanger in the grand tradition of The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Knight or Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince (not all created equal, though they have similarly unresolved endings) and offers such an incendiary climax (literally and figuratively) that you don't
leave the
theater feeling hoodwinked or unfulfilled.
I have literally never seen so many people get out of their seats to
leave the
theater and come back (often multiple times) than I did during this
film.
If you saw the
films It Follows, The Ring, and the Final Destination series, you'll relive the sensations those
films made way beyond
leaving the
theater.
Mike: There are certain
films that require discussion upon
leaving the
theater, it seems impossible to just go on with your day after seeing something like Jean - Marc Vallée's Café de Flore.
DVD Features: The widescreen DVD release of «After the Sunset»
leaves room for improvement upon the horrible
theater experience that resulted from seeing this
film.
Carney nails the tone of the
film and everything from the costumes, to the dialogue and music will have you
leaving the
theater feeling uplifted and tapping your feet.
«We expect the
film to stay alive in
theaters for a while because it's that rare documentary where audiences feel better
leaving the
theater than they do going in.»
There Will Be Blood hit
theaters during the twilight of the Bush administration, when many
film critics felt particularly free to pepper their cinematic commentary with (mostly
left - wing) political critique.
Leaving the
theater afterwards I wondered how much better Swanberg's
films might be with a little more time for second drafts or rehearsal.
Two years after Hulu announced that it would exclusively stream all documentaries from IFC
Films, IFC Midnight, and Sundance Selects after they
leave theaters, the agreement has been expanded to all narrative
films released by those distributors.