Sentences with phrase «film rife»

This is also an important film rife with relevant messages, and it deserves to be seen.

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The findings prompt the authors to describe children's cartoons as «rife with death and destruction,» with content akin to the «rampant horrors» of popular films for adults given restrictive age ratings.

It's Spielberg's best and truest action film since Jaws, relentlessly paced, pitch - perfectly acted (the young Fanning is almost certain to get a Best Supporting Actress nod come Oscar time), and rife with moments of such horrifically poetic imagery that it's all you can do not to stop thinking about them long after the film has ended.

He wanted to make a film about the relationship between the Abrahamic faiths, at a time when anti-Semitism was as rife in British culture as Christianity was strong.

The boldest provocation of Mitchell's sweet, tender and gently funny film may be its exuberant celebration of community and togetherness at a cultural moment rife with fatalism and disconnect.

The film is rife with scenes in which characters voice sentiments like «I believe it is important to assert that materialism as we conceive it differs from bourgeois materialism by questing for a more humane society.»

Superman IV is a pathetic appendage to the series, a dull, shoddy film that makes the minimal 1950s TV series seem rife with production values by comparison.

In this universe rife with inside jokes and gems disguised as throwaway lines, Guest himself appears as the wondrously detached director of the film, who asserts his authority by not asserting it when dealing with addled actors or wounded first - time screenwriters (Bob Balaban and Michael McKean).

The running theme of the film is the relationship between the legacy of Persian / Iranian culture — which, as seen in the quoted passages of these poets, was rife with the celebration of wine, women, and the life of the senses — with Iran in 1999.

It's rife with all the usual melodrama of a music biopic, but the characters are never fully developed, despite the fact that the film's bloated 134 minute runtime gives plenty of opportunities to do just that.

It's a premise rife with thematic potential, which becomes impossible to miss once Binoche's character decamps for the Alps to rehearse with her assistant (an admittedly excellent Kristen Stewart) and the two begin spelling out every hint of meaning through conversation, effectively stripping the whole film of subtext, scene by overwritten scene.

That union is rife with problems from the start, though despite the film's Shakespeare - referencing title, the path it wends is an original and horrifying one.

In other hands, a zombie movie is just a zombie movie, but Land of the Dead, a horror film laced with rife with social commentary, political satire, and black humor, is not just a return to the genre he practically single - handedly created (or at least definitively redefined), but a return to form.

Toilet planking aside, the film with «awkward» in the title was rife with other awkward moments — from showing up to a dress - up party in a highly inappropriate costume, to getting hit by a taxi and mistaking a girl with a lot of cash and some cute boots for a hooker.

For a film that is supposed to be about the holiday spirit, «The Night Before» is rife with selfish and self - centered behavior by its major protagonists who, at times, seem to be friends simply because the script says so.

The biggest difference between Carver's fiction and Altman's film is that while the sexual and ethical tensions that are rife throughout the stories rarely come to the surface, they find collective and catastrophic catharsis in Short Cuts's earthshaking finale.

Bone Tomahawk (2015) In 2015 - a year rife with exceptional Westerns — this film sets itself apart.

Boasting a majority - black cast donning some gorgeous Afrofuturistic get - ups, as well as a complex plot rife with political machinations and betrayal, Black Panther promises to have an epic scope that remains unrivaled in comic book films.

The film is rife with tense scenes of attack and escape, blended with slower, yet just as unnerving, scenes between Katniss and Peeta — have the rebels successfully broken through his reprogramming?

In the film's view, the community is rife with tensions and chasms, all exacerbated by the atrocious limitations of living in occupation.

Rife with Stillman's signature sardonic wit and affection for outsiders, the film marks the final work in his trilogy — including Metropolitan and 1994's Barcelona — about the group he termed the «urban haute bourgeoisie.»

Rife with potential, the film adaptation of Jo Nesbo's bestselling crime novel makes for frustrating viewing, even more so now that director Tomas Alfredson («Let the Right One In,» «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy») recently revealed that 10 - 15 % of the...

, and Carina's character injected a shot of Girl Power into the film while also being genuinely interesting and giving the writers an excuse to include some corny - but - I - still - laughed lines rife with innuendo.

It's rife with unexpected moments of happenstance that seem to be completely isolated from the rest of the film's world.

The film hums with zealous energy, rife with vulgarity - laced elegance.

Still, the mood of the film isn't action - charged or rife with opportunities for ga - ga inducing explosions, very much akin to the poetry and beauty found in many Japanese productions.

But hold on — the action in the film is fascinating, rife with chuckling humor and imaginative sets, all accompanied by Alexandre Desplat's wondrous score that enriches every scene.

In 2015 - a year rife with exceptional Westerns — this film sets itself apart.

The film is rife with stars and moguls, most notably Michael Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson, Christian Berkel as the imperious director Otto Preminger, David James Elliott as John Wayne and a convincing Dean O'Gorman as Kirk Douglas, who helped end the blacklist by putting Trumbo's name on «Spartacus.»

Christopher Nolan's production company, Syncopy, has recently signed on to produce the 25th film in the James Bond series, and as such speculation is rife over whether Nolan might fancy taking the helm himself.

The film is rife with stars and moguls, most notably Stuhlbarg as Edward G. Robinson, Christian Berkel as the imperious director Otto Preminger, David James Elliott as John Wayne and a convincing Dean O'Gorman as Kirk Douglas, who helped end the blacklist by putting Trumbo's name on «Spartacus.»

Woody's perennial punching bag, the much maligned hypnosis comedy is mockable on title alone, but the film now represents a marker in a filmography rife with sea changes, downshifts and resuscitations.

In place of story is a non-stop cavalcade of wire - fu fight scenes rife with CG effects, which impress when compared to those of the original, but in the world of action, offer little we've seen before in better films with bigger budgets.

It had more pizzazz than anything else that seems like a Best Film of the season, it managed to be explicitly about movies without violating its trajectories as a first - rate genre film (thriller), it was rife with the best, least slavish sort of hommages, and it tapped into the moods and mannerisms of other cinéastes like Nick Ray, Hitchcock, and Hopper without for a moment ceasing to be Ein Film von Wim Wenders.

I can't think of a film more rife with product placement than TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY.

The entire film, in fact, is rife with fantastic monologues, expertly handled.

Essential to his films» success were their soundtracks — sparse, simple, all - synthesizer affairs rife with tension, dread, and drama, all of which were composed by Carpenter himself (occasionally in concert with Alan Howarth, a frequent collaborator).

Martin McDonagh has the same sort of dark, yet whimsical sense of humor with which his film IN BRUGES, is rife.

DVD shortcomings aside, this is the sort of film that lends itself to multiple viewings, if only to be able to shift back and forth between scenes, the better to appreciate the clever foreshadowings with which the script is rife.

Instead, under the direction of Peter Sohn working from a script from Meg LeFauve, «The Good Dinosaur» is antic and unexpected as well as homiletic, rife with subversive elements, wacky critters and some of the most beautiful landscapes ever seen in a computer animated film.

Ida is not always an easy film but it's potent and powerful, rife with themes of absolution and guilt.»

I have to say that I'm surprised at the generous rating, as this film is rife with crude and sexual content throughout, including many character names that, if one were to look for them in «urban dictionary» would be considered borderline - obscene («Felcher» being one of them), and such things as bestiality, fecal residue consumption, castration, and sticking one's hand into an elderly woman's vagina are part of the gags (the latter even made the nationally released trailer -LRB-!)-RRB-.

Speculation about the film has been rife ever since Day - Lewis announced his retirement shortly after filming, citing the «sense of sadness» that overwhelmed him after playing Reynolds as one of his reasons for quitting acting.

Both films have only one thing going for it — the game itself seems to be rife with silly possibilities, as it is inherently funny to watch, and takes itself as a very serious form of sport.

With The Last Shot, Nathanson finally gets his turn to try his hand at directing, and while the idea for a film is rife with comedic possibilities, he is no Spielberg.

The film - which follows a group of high schoolers (including Devon Sawa's Alex, Ali Larter's Clear, and Kerr Smith's Carter) as they avoid a plane crash yet find themselves pursued by a sinister force - is subsequently rife with expository interludes designed to explain the series» ongoing mythology, and although waiting for the central characters to catch up to what we already know sporadically does become a little tiresome, there's little doubt that Wong's unexpectedly cinematic sensibilities prove instrumental in capturing and sustaining the viewer's interest from start to finish.

There's little doubt, then, that the film begins to demonstrably improve once Rogers undergoes his metamorphosis, with the effectiveness of that sequence paving the way for a second half that's rife with unexpectedly captivating set pieces - including a finale that's not quite as over-the-top as one might've anticipated (and feared).

Rife with potential, the film adaptation of Jo Nesbø's bestselling crime novel makes for frustrating viewing, even more so now that director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) recently revealed that 10 - 15 percent of the script was never filmed.

And because the film is rife with political allusions to immigration, stereotypes and isolationism not long after U.S. President Donald Trump made derogatory comments about African nations, it's also providing an opportunity for some to capitalize on the inspiration for change.

Rife with some unique special effects, and some we've seen before — most notably in Robert Downey Jr.'s «Iron Man» films — «Black Panther» features Chadwick Boseman as the title hero.