Sentences with phrase «film sidesteps»

Normally this spells trouble for often groan - inducing no - budget movies, but this film sidesteps that with consistently witty dialogue, excellent pacing, and remarkable chemistry between the young actors.

«In Luca Guadagnino's sensitive, sensual Call Me By Your Name, a bright teenage boy living in the picturesque Italian countryside falls into a passionate summer fling with an older man, the American graduate student who's come to study for the season... Paced like an especially lazy summer, the film sidesteps conflict...

After a too - cutesy start, the charming film sidesteps cliches and evocatively captures its exotic locales.

The film sidesteps a pitfall into which a lot of these type of ensemble movies fall in that none of the characters ever feel one - dimensional.

That's not true, or at least it's not supposed to be; when a film sidesteps, ignores or just plain forgets certain uncomfortable events, it commits a huge disservice to itself.

Not exact matches

To sidestep the slow production, Cornell University's Jiwoong Park used Mo (CO) 6 or W (CO) 6 as precursors in a chemical vapor deposition process to form films of MoS2 and WS2, respectively, that were only three atoms thick but covered an area of about 65 cm2 (Nature 2015, DOI: 10.1038 / nature14417).

Exposing a different side of Shrek (only brief buttock nudity is seen), the movie sidesteps some of the sexual innuendos played out in previous films, however it depicts a group of high school students stumbling out of a smoke - filled chariot where they've been sharing a joint between classes.

It's a ground - breaker like «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), the first major film about an interracial romance; it uses the chemistry of popular stars in a reliable genre to sidestep what looks like controversy.

There's a grey, plodding quality to the film which sidesteps oppressive, doom - laden inevitability and goes straight to slightly dull.

Yet the horrific circumstances of his chemical castration and the very real realities of his life as a gay man are sidestepped by the faux thriller set - up of the film, a device that conveniently allows a heterosexual writer like Moore (who's Oscar acceptance speech granted us insight into how his version of Turing lacks any on - screen interiority as a gay man) to touch upon the subject as a clichéd trope.

Even as it detours into generic horror tropes in the final act, the film is bolstered by a complex portrayal from Powley and a screenplay that smartly sidesteps fish - out - of - water clichés and instead focuses on Anna's psychological demons.

Here, little orphan Annie is living with a vaguely - abusive stepmother (played awfully by Cameron Diaz) in Harlem, which is portrayed here in a way that sidesteps the real life poverty of many of the real neighbourhoods because, hey, this is a kids film and we don't need to depress them about life.

A last - minute sidestep into exploitation territory feels downright offensive, and it wasn't something the film was crying out for.

It was like they knew the challenge would be to create a film that had huge potential to be bad and thus sidestepped most of those seemingly inevitable pitfalls.

In spotlighting the mostly sweet - natured but still slightly bruised give - and - take of this unusual codependent relationship, director Zachary Heinzerling's movie sidesteps doctrinaire concepts of nonfiction art films and expands its core audience, imparting glancing lessons about the uncertainty of love and the almost necessary dance of responsibility and care - taking involved.

Even in sub-par films such as The Darkest Hour, she's never less then 100 per cent convincing, and here even sidesteps into an action role effortlessly.

Like the extension of the Nazi regime in Pasolini's infamous Sade adaptation Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), this hearkens back to the type of gritty cruelty most films outside of Holocaust reenactments tend to sidestep.

While most observant viewers will already have formed opinions as to the worthiness of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the complicit role that the media plays in sidestepping confrontation with government officials in favor of pleasing target demographics, these aren't the overriding themes of the film.

However, while the film does utilise — and subvert — the tropes of a standard thriller, it so constantly sidesteps convention and audience expectation that any formal generic classification proves woefully inadequate.

A harsh coming - of - age story set in a dreamlike, re-imagined, post-modern wild west, McLean's film manages to sidestep the arid ironies of most modern westerns on its way to far more interesting territory.

In Welcome To The Jungle, the characters go straight from everyday life into a fully realized jungle environment, sidestepping the fusion of the two worlds that created some of the most memorable images in Joe Johnston's 1995 film.

January Jones's creamy, edible skin more than makes up for the typical doll - eyed opaqueness of her performance, while there's a transparency to the film's teal tint that keeps it from feeling oppressive and helps it sidestep cliché.

How the film avoids becoming even slightly mawkish or phony is its greatest trick, sidestepping high school clichés at every turn but never outright rebuffing them.

Filmed in three - strip Technicolor, a process long abandoned by Hollywood, which acquiesces a richness of reds and a luxuriance of yellows no longer achievable in American films, Zhang Yimou's historical heart breaker somehow sidesteps maudlin sentimentality while still maximizing its titular crimson blush.

While the movie does earn some credit for sidestepping the typical, cheap happy ending, there are no new ideas to set it apart from the plethora of cookie - cutter, disappointing horror films that have come out in recent years.

The film's achievement is that by employing a restrained and naturalistic visual aesthetic, the portrayal of violence is authenticated and sidesteps exploitative sentimentality.

America's most beloved and ill - considered romantic comedy gets a remake, one that will attempt to sidestep all of the 1987 film's more unsavory aspects — abduction, psychological abuse, slavery — by simply flipping the genders.

Sidestepping the crowd - pleasing, antic energy common to the selections featured in the latter program at the Toronto International Film Festival, Eggers's film is altogether stranger and more challenging to conventional genre tastes.

And in sidestepping many of the pitfalls that come with continuing a beloved franchise, the film invites viewers to revel in the old glory days without simply trying to recreate them.

It's a film directed toward an older audience and — except for a single medical marijuana scene at the retirement home — sidesteps all those wacky golden ager cinema stereotypes.

The former urge is still apparent in the overwhelming welcome given to a widely frozen - out film like «The Reader,» as well as bizarre sidesteps like that Swinton nod.

A little seen and vastly underrated skid row drama, the film nimbly eschews convention, sidestepping almost every narrative beat associated with the boxing genre.

It is in this instant that the film hits its stride, sidestepping the typical middle - aged loner angst of its first act and setting off down the path of examining this far more deranged character, a textbook case of a mama's boy taken to the point of excess.

While her stunning looks make it almost impossible for her to sidestep all eye candy roles, her work in Her, Don Jon and this film let her flex some artistic muscle.

Tate Taylor's film of Kathryn Stockett's bestseller about housewives and their maids in Kennedy - era Mississippi, which boasts Oscar - caliber performances by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, sidesteps the pitfalls of movies like Mississippi Burning while providing sneers for the «Mad Men» - deprived.

Flawed and uneven, with a conclusion that simply doesn't convince, but if you're able to sidestep these faults then there's still a very good film at it's core.