Sentences with phrase «film than a drama»

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It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

Of course, the company is inseparable from founder Larry Flynt, the larger - than - life personality that was notably brought to the big screen in the 1996 drama The People vs. Larry Flynt, a film that grossed $ 20m and was nominated for two Academy Awards.

It would be easy to compare the film to the gangster - full works of Tarantino, but where Tarantino is skilful at getting inside the characters of his lowlifes and making you care, Drew's motley crew of social misfits remain just movie - video ciphers, rather than the anti-heroes of an insightful social drama.

«Rather than being innocuous and gentler alternatives to typical horror or drama films, children's animated films are, in fact, hotbeds of murder and mayhem» say the study leaders Dr Ian Colman and Dr James Kirkbride.

Those listing the 2012 Ben Affleck - directed drama among their favourite films receive almost twice as many (+90 %) messages than the average eharmony member.

This film plays out like more of a drama / horror rather than a straight up horror flick and I really admired that change of pace.

The gunplay (what little there is), is done well, and even though the film is more style than substance, and could stand to be trimmed up greatly, it's a thinking man's drama / thriller, and not a blockbuster action film.

It was just an ordinary crime drama full with safe clichés for an ordinary viewer, and nothing which will be remembered for any longer than the duration time of the film.

Of course it would take more than a small independent film to truly set Washington apart from the pack, and many saw her performance in the 2001 romantic drama Save the Last Dance as one of the few redeeming qualities in the otherwise forgettable teen drama.

It's a very moving indie drama that, as the directorial debut of screenwriter Oren Moverman, could be the start of a very great career for him as something other than a writer.You should definitely give this film a watch.

Somebody really needs to tell the British film industry there's more to film than just costume dramas and gangster movies.

More than that, despite the surplus of violence in the pilot film, it is refreshing to see a television drama about young people in which the protagonists are doing something besides drugs, in which their concerns run deeper than clothes and dates... It could get terrific.

More often than not, when a film that is a wartime drama gets released, it usually focuses on the battlefield, and the horrors of war.

In other words, he's much better at effects - laden set - pieces than character drama, and this film is crying out for more of the latter.

This wonderful film could have so easily been made into a silly comedy but is fortunately instead a bittersweet drama that relies on a captivating performance by the always talented Ryan Gosling, who gives life to a sensitive character that never seems less than real.

And yet, although the film is only marginally better than the average feel - good sports drama, it hits the right notes almost every time.

Strand released a few more mediocre films in 2015 than it did in the year before, but impressed critics with Céline Sciamma's coming - of - age drama Girlhood.

In 1997, Posey starred in no less than five independent films, including Henry Fool, her third Hartley outing; the temps - in - hell comedy drama Clockwatchers; Linklater's adaptation of Eric Bogosian's SubUrbia; and The House of Yes.

But there were also numerous duds, including animated family film Free Birds, drama Out of the Furnace, and thriller misfire Paranoia, which all finished in the red (some in more ways than one, judging from those scores).

The film is limiting potential enough by conceptually simply studying on Oscar Wilde's sexual revelations and their subsequent consequences, rather than the whole of his brilliant life and tragic downfall, but when it comes to the execution, not enough studying is done in this often inspired, and just as often undercooked character drama which at least finds superficiality in its resonance.

a visually striking, but emotionally flat mash - up of romantic drama, film noir, and science fiction that sounds much more interesting than it turns out to be

Much ballyhooed for its on - location filming in and around the United Nations building in Manhattan «The Interpreter» works better as a captivating drama than it does as an espionage thriller due to some sticking plot points that prevent the audience from

Boyle set out to make this particular film rather than a gritty social panorama along the lines of Brazilian favela drama City of God.

Like Ceylan — like many a fine director — Coixet has made her film less as a drama than as the traversal of a state of mind, a mood.

The strong, decidedly unconventional conclusion confirms Paths of Glory's place as a fairly striking drama from Kubrick, with the film ultimately faring better than the director's next few (and far more well - known) endeavors.

As always, the quality of those films varied widely, taking in films that were among the year's best (including drama 45 Years, 2015's # 2 overall film) and among the year's worst The Human Centipede III, which scored lower than all but one film last year).

There's also an odd episode or two that is more documentary than drama, which is an odd mix since the film makes no attempt at realism.

A decent little romantic film, although labeled a Rom - com most of the time it feels more of a drama with a lot of light hearted moments than truly laugh out loud scenes.

Consequently the film ends up more like a workshop for actors than a satisfying drama for audiences.

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As the title suggests, it's a film more interested in the birth and nurturing of ideas and their relationship to society than it is in extracting a crude drama from Darwin nervously pressing a knife to God's throat.

Fey is really quite wonderful in the film, which despite the trailer is more of a drama with some clever jokes than a comedy, per se.

Combined, and with a touch of help from Josh Lucas & Chloe Sevigny, this is a stellar cast in a surprisingly good movie, not one that will rise to top of a lot of lists, but a film that's worth much more exposure than it received, something a fan of hard drama shouldn't miss.

The politics that shape the film's second half remain more vague than they should be, although that helps this film be more of a human drama than an historical one.

Despite this being a film about Sherlock Holmes, the fact that it's not much of a mystery may disappoint die - hard fans, but as an astute drama it's more than worth a look because Ian McKellen...

This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than traditional commercial fare.

Owing more to sports drama pacing than you are anticipating (the film is co-produced by ESPN's film division), the film is so vibrantly alive as to never succumb to the sluggish pitfalls of overly familiar narrative structures.

The Way Way Back does generate a fair amount of laughs throughout the film, but misses on the emotional level because of the underplayed drama between mother and son — a shame because Collette's character had real potential to be more than just a naïve mother who is content with looking the other way for everything in life.

The film tries to play as a realistic crime drama, but blows it with larger than life characters and situations.

More than a sports film, the story is a family drama that served as great material for a magnificent ensemble cast.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Most of the film feels more distant than emotionally involving, it's still a well - done relationship drama with an incredible lead performance.

Harrelson suffers a related problem as in their attempts to make a memorable villain, the character is overdone and comes across as a one - dimensional psychotic from an exploitation film rather than the more muted drama he's supposed to be in.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Assayas has made more exciting films, and this drama is longer and more leisurely than it needs to be.

Woody Harrelson barely makes an appearance and still seems like the most underutilized star in the franchise (although Stanley Tucci gets nothing more than a cameo appearance), while Donald Sutherland is the film's greatest benefit, hitting that perfect note of high drama and total commitment to the character — they were lucky to cast him in the role.

Frantiek Vláčil's direction feels more confident than genuinely realized, jarring between and rarely fully fleshing out his vision of a subtle drama and solid artistic expression, but no matter how much Vláčil's questionable touches hold the film back, when it comes to style, there is plenty of striking imagery and haunting plays on technical value and musicality to establish plenty of commendable aesthetic value, and when it comes to substance, when he gains a grip on his thoughtfulness, he delivers on a piercing subtlety and grace which was a fair ways ahead of the time.

The film shifts between thriller and drama, and it might have been better if it had gone for one or the other, rather than straddling both with only a modicum of success.

A coming - of - age story set in 2002 Sacramento, the film could very easily have fallen into the trappings of a subgenre that has been expanding for decades, but Gerwig's film is littered with pitch - perfect drama, humor, and emotion that makes it far greater than the sum of its parts.