Sentences with phrase «film succeeds»

The film succeeds where the previous one failed, in that it attempts to actually have a story, and to tell it.

Profound without ever being didactic, sordid without being gratuitous, above all the film succeeds by deftly dancing between the poles of dark and light, allowing for both cheap jump scares and sophisticated and subtle moments of performance.

It makes little sense that once the film succeeds in making us care more about the firemen than the spectacle of the fire, it plods ahead with lengthy inferno scenes anyway.

This taut film succeeds at bringing to life the visuals our minds can only imagine.

One of the central reasons the film succeeds, attests blogger Dallas King is its subtly readable costume design by Jane Petrie.

This may be a silly way to begin talking about The Lobster but it is an apt one seeing as how one of the many ways in which the film succeeds is in sucking you into the bizarre rules of the world and accepting them as fact.

His hard - drinking, confused and angry, Ig is pushed up against the wall and it's largely through the strength of Radcliffe's performance that the film succeeds.

This is where the film succeeds but where it fails is in its characters.

The film succeeds on nearly every level and doesn't fall victim to the stifling over-faithfulness to it source material that I feared it might — Kazuo Ishiguro's novel is a difficult one to adapt, and there is a lot of streamlining here, especially in straightening out Ishiguro's meandering timeline and eliding a lot of the portions of the story not essential to the central relationship among the three children.

That the film succeeds in both regards is an accomplishment worthy of a decent amount of praise, but the degree to which it succeeds on both counts is substantial.

The film succeeds as a great ambassador for the game of poker.

Broadway fans will find an endearing peek inside that life, but thirty - five years later, the film succeeds on that elusive universal level the musical was dreaming of.

Aided by an ominous score evoking a church organ, the film succeeds in building thick suspense.

On the plus side, whereas the book misses many opportunities to give a 1950s feel to the tale, the film succeeds much better, in large part due to a terrific film score by Thomas Newman.

Moreover, for a film called The Strangers, the idea is incredibly familiar, but it's in the execution where the film succeeds.

The film succeeds because of Alex Jefferson.

The film succeeds in that it is actually quite funny most of the time, yet the sum of its parts are greater than the whole.

The whole movie is meant to feel like a duel between two men who couldn't be any more different, and it's one of many reasons why the film succeeds as well as it does.

Though at times it threatens to veer off into wistfulness, the film succeeds in dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust from a child's perspective because the story - telling is direct and forthright.

If the film succeeds at all, and it does mildly, it is as a character study.

Nonetheless, the film succeeds in its exploration of subculture, individuality and collective identity, from a feminist perspective.

The film succeeds on so many levels, not the least of which is the elegant soundtrack.

The film succeeds in conveying this tension incredibly well.

The film succeeds on just about every level, from the iconic performance by Al Pacino to the beautiful way De Palma photographs his violence.

The main point, of course, is that the film succeeds in its limited scope.

News - making subject matter grants Citizenfour instant significance, but the film succeeds not just for what it captures but the bold and interesting way it presents history in the making.

Jackman's performance is incredible; the film succeeds because of him.

The only area in which the film succeeds is in its gore quotient, which is fairly high - though the obvious low budget of the movie couldn't possibly be more obvious (that disembodied head looks like it was slapped together with foam and some silly putty).

It's as though the film succeeds at antagonizing those whom it satarizes, and in result it is so noxious that few have opted to encounter it.

A glum, gloomy view of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq as damaged goods, the film succeeds most as a taut whodunit laced with a character study.

Once again, you've written a fine review that reveals to us in many dimensions why this film succeeds.

The film succeeds as a human drama because the director finds the right tone.

Niccol twists the language to startling effect — rebellious Hawke is dubbed a «de-generate» — but the film succeeds so well because it's not content simply to bask in its own ideas, escalating tension when an unrelated murder investigation threatens to unmask the protagonist's existential masquerade.

But on its own conventional terms, the film succeeds — maybe not as a «Coen Brothers» movie, but as a tall tale well told.

While certainly less well - known than Schindler's List or La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful, Roberto Benigni 1997)-- the film succeeds in capturing a sense of the moral complexity, even the absurdity of wartime through the eyes of its teenage protagonist.

But the film succeeds or fails with Coltrane, and Linklater owes a debt to the movie gods for this bit of casting.

Though burdened with some painfully clumsy passages of dialogue littered throughout Wentworth Miller's screenplay, the film succeeds on the strength of its lush visuals, nimble editing, sweeping musical contributions by Clint Mansell and Philip Glass, and magnetic performances by Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode as, respectively, the reserved young protagonist and her creepily seductive uncle who reappears shortly after the death of her father (Dermot Mulroney).

But in addition to the brutality of Tulpan's environment, and its merciless impress on the inhabitants, the film succeeds foremost, most surprisingly, as comedy.

Spielberg had been trying to recapture some of the excitement of the old cinema Saturday matinees and the film succeeds in achieving this.

Where the film succeeds overall is in its performances.

The film succeeds in the way director Tomm Moore mixes and matches visual motifs to isolate different locales and still find the unity between them through the imagination of a young boy assigned to complete the illumination of a famous tome.

If the film succeeds at all it's not because of Lee's suffocatingly polite direction but for its expressive performances and intrinsic sadness of Ennis and Jack's ritual of hiding.

To that end, Scherfig's film succeeds mightily.

Adapted from the Stephen King novel, the new horror film succeeds in telling a personal story about fear, adulthood and danger.

As an intimate look at Jones the film succeeds, as a powerful testament to her talent the film soars.

Where the film succeeds is in strong performances (excluding the little girl, who ranks easily as one of the most annoying ever on film) and undeniably creepy atmosphere that at times is genuinely upsetting.

Where the film succeeds is the retention of the audience's attention.

As both a lover of cinema and a critic, I always try to make a distinction between personal preference and how a film succeeds or fails.

The film succeeds on these fundamental levels, with Pete and Elliott instantly winning our sympathy and maintaining it throughout.

The film succeeds due to its investment in its characters and by not forcing situations beyond the ability for the storyline to bear.