Sentences with phrase «film sticks the landing»

If ever a film stuck the landing, that film is Whiplash.

The consequences of what happens in the novel, and what carries on after Susan sets things down will not be revealed here, of course, but suffice it to say that the film sticks the landing with precision and no shortage of savage grace.

Summary: The film sticks the landing and provides a funny and sincere look at the making of The Room as well as the relationship between Wiseau and Sestero.

Not exact matches

Marvel films have a reputation for not entirely sticking the landing — they start strong, but generally end with big, dumb fights.

The horror fades out, leaving the film stuck in iffy tv - movie land.

Like its namesake, the film only achieves greatness for a few brief moments, and the best things about it (e.g. Janney's character) are seldom allowed to expand beyond the stereotypes that make them so easy to understand, but Gillespie's biopic sticks the landing because it never forgets one of its very first lines: Tonya Harding is America, and she always has been.

The film, directed by Chris McKay, has a high jumping off point, but never quite sticks its landing.

It may not have quite stuck the landing, but Alex Garland's Ex Machina was still one of the more entertaining sci - fi films of recent years, full of heady ideas and indelible performances.

The Margin Call director went out on a limb with All Is Lost by making a film with one character and almost no dialogue, but he stuck the landing and critics have taken notice not only of Robert Redford's performance but of Chandor's direction.

You might say that «The Bronze» doesn't, ahem, stick the landing, and if you add about nine four - letter words to that, that's the sort of joke you'll hear in the film itself.

The blend of Looney Tunes, Roger Corman, and pre-Real Housewives vapidness is a lot for the film to shoulder, but it sticks the landing smartly by having the combative twosome (mostly) put aside their differences in favor of humor and teamwork.

Netflix's latest original film (courtesy of Gattaca's Andrew Niccol) gets bogged down in its near - future technology, and forgets to stick the landing.

However, in the end, it just can't quite stick the landing in the film's final minutes.

Affleck's first two films as director, «Gone Baby Gone» and «The Town,» were promising without quite sticking the landing, but even this marks a real leap up; a thrilling, breathlessly tense picture with plenty of wit, style and feeling.

Despite some minor alterations to his origin and the emphasis on a love story — a surprisingly touching one, Deadpool stuck the superhero landing as one of the most accurate portrayals of a comic book character in film.

Still, even if it doesn't quite stick the landing, there's a lot to like here; it's a fundamentally decent, very well - acted and cannily written film.

It's been far too long since we've had a good Spider - Man game — the last two games based on The Amazing Spider Man films were stinkers — so here's hoping Sony and Insomniac stick the landing come 2018.