Sentences with phrase «film of this nature»

Not only is the salacious and sensationalist male gaze, which is often present in films of this nature, completely absent, but Shortland avoids going through the motions of delivering the obvious plot points to instead focus on the subjective experiences of the character.

It treads familiar waters and doesn't offer anything new in story, but the characters are well - drawn, the narrative full of humor and depth, and the themes handled with a maturity that is absent in other films of this nature.

The producers should also be commended for hiring inexperienced young actors in the lead and supporting roles rather than the typical seasoned stars of the high school / frat pack genre, who you would normally associate with films of this nature, and they by and large acquit themselves rather well.

«Big Game is big fun, a terrific genre film that once again shows that the Finns can make films of this nature that rival those from anywhere else in the world.»

But overall «The Great Wall» is a disappointing film compared to most American fantasy - action films of this nature.

Seven Days Sunday is a necessarily bleak retelling of an horrific real - life occurrence, that like many films of its nature raises several possible explanations without ever being able to settle on one.

Steve Jobs succeeds in its depiction of the titular tech mogul because it understands what most films of this nature do not: that facts are often less important than truth.

Typical for modern films of this nature, the action scenes are filled with shaky handheld cinematography and rapid cuts that mean there often isn't a single well - framed shot in the whole sequence (and if there is it lasts about a nanosecond before being replaced by one that isn't).

Will Mackenzie be able to match the epic nature demanded of a war film of this nature and will Chris Pine be up for the accent?

Especially for Winstead, a well made and well reviewed film of this nature can vault someone to the forefront of the awards race.

Director Stephen Frears (The Queen; Philomena) has produced a career making successful films of this nature, about opposites finding comfort that they couldn't find from the family that surrounded them.

Like other films of this nature, Cheryl carries mental baggage while she battles her inner demons.

As with any film of this nature some sequences are maybe over the top and heavy handed to create that teary eyed emotion but I guess that is to be expected and required to a degree.

Why the need to always infuse some meaningless (within the grand scheme of things), small «personal» story in a film of this nature??

Deadline reports that the Jungle Cruise movie will be an Indiana Jones - like action - adventure, and Collet - Serra was very much interested in getting his hands on a film of its nature, a potential franchise that he will be able to mould around an A-list Hollywood star like Johnson.

It should also be noted that some of themes throughout the film were surprisingly much deeper than I expected to see in a film of this nature.

The humor is worth mentioning here too, as it's nearly pitch perfect for a film of this nature.

Crucial for any film of this nature is casting, and 10 Cloverfield Lane benefits from three great actors really digging into some wonderfully compelling roles.

The baffling pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo is bad enough, but you get that in a film of this nature.

Then again, in 1984 Jodie Foster starred in what has to be one of the greatest black comedies of all time, The Hotel New Hampshire, so maybe starring in a film of that nature in her formative years went some way towards the successes of this film.

Based on Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, Elegy is a smart, character - driven drama that avoids the traps that other films of this nature (such as the last Philip Roth adaptation, The Human Stain) frequently fall into.

It seems we finally we have a film of this nature that doesn't take itself seriously; if anything, it revels in its own silliness and is acutely aware that the story is just a tad far - fetched.

107 minutes is marginally too long for a film of this nature, and director Daina Reid probably could have afforded to trim a couple of sections that don't really work: the subplot involving Jim's sister and her fiance is given far too much time, while the final countdown sequence in the taxi also could have been more judiciously edited.

It doesn't help that the story is also a bit depressing for a film of this nature, as if it belonged to a completely different, more somber and unsettling movie.

It's an epic romantic tale of how Dr. Zhivago endures so much to be with the one he loves and all the obstacles that come in their way with one of the most tragic endings that a film of this nature could ever have.

It's as good a track as can be expected from a film of this nature.

One of the tests I always apply to films of this nature, is asking myself if any of the scenarios could work on their own, as a full - length feature.

Specifically, they were worried that a film of this nature would suffer from negative comparisons to Indiana Jones, because, in their words, it would be impossible to tell a story that didn't resemble the adventures of Harrison Ford's legendary archaeologist, at least superficially.