Sentences with phrase «film than the critics»

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While Bay's films are hits with audiences grossing more than $ 4.6 billion dollars worldwide, they're not always loved by critics.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

It was on more critics top 10 lists than any other animated film by a mile, and much loved by viewers, how does it not get a nom?

Critic Consensus: Decidedly slower and less limber than the Olympic runners at the center of its story, the film nevertheless manages to make effectively stirring use of its spiritual and patriotic themes.

Mr. Abraham has appeared in more than 80 films, including AMADEUS, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor, as well as Golden Globe and LA Film Critics Awards.

Critics Consensus: Well - written, well - meaning and solidly acted, The Life of Emile Zola film may ultimately be more earnest than dramatically engaging.

Critics Consensus: Decidedly slower and less limber than the Olympic runners at the center of its story, the film nevertheless manages to make effectively stirring use of its spiritual and patriotic themes.

Snowden may not be one of director Oliver Stone's best, but this is why I believe critics are hitting this film a little harder than it deserves.

Critics Consensus: The Angry Birds Movie is substantially more entertaining than any film adapted from an app has any right to be — which may or may not be much of an endorsement.

Though Tony Gilroy, who shared writing credit on all three previous Bourne films and directed the excellent Michael Clayton 82 (and much less excellent Duplicity 69), handles both writing and directing duties here, critics found that Legacy added little in the way of originality, while Renner proved a less captivating action star than Damon.

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.

Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse.

Richard Schickel, whose celebrated and prolific career spans 50 years, has been the film critic for Time and Life magazines, has written more than 20 books and has produced, written and directed numerous...

An Amazing Spider - Man sequel (13 points lower than the previous film), George Clooney's The Monuments Men, and a remake of Annie are among the Sony films last year that underperformed with critics.

A film critic and entertainment journalist with more than ten years of experience working in Los Angeles, Todd Gilchrist is a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

They were also better than those of any other major studio, leaving Disney the only one of the seven majors to receive a grade higher than a C. Interestingly, Disney's three Marvel - related films (including Big Hero 6, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) were not just the studio's highest - grossing releases, but were also the highest - scoring Disney films with critics.

The first film was a huge hit, taking more than eight times its budget at the box office and winning over critics and audiences alike with its intelligent storytelling and witty script.

Warner again has more than 20 films lined up for 2015, which should be an interesting year for the studio, with plenty of films (Jupiter Ascending, Mad Max: Fury Road, Pan, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) that could potentially go either way with critics and with moviegoers.

The set - up of the film — 12 - year - old Zain sues his parents for being born — turned some critics off, but The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw sees a «much angrier, tougher — and sometimes funnier — film than you might imagine from its cloying opening premise.»

I can't say I can fully blame the critics, because even though, like I said, I like this film alright, it has more than just some decent, if annoying punk rock classics to give you (Yes, I'm going to say it again) «heebie - jeebies» (There).

A Walk in the Woods shouldn't be criticized for its simplicity, which is what some critics have said about it, because a film like this can't really do much more than it does.

So in that way, I'm on a completely different level than critics are for this film.

Critic Consensus: There isn't much to Sneakers plot and that's more than made up for with the film's breezy panache and hi - tech lingo.

Critics Consensus: There isn't much to Sneakers plot and that's more than made up for with the film's breezy panache and hi - tech lingo.

The film is fairly underrated and it does manage at being one of those films that is much better than what the critics said.

Critics have seemingly cooled on Tarantino's pop culture patchwork technique over the years, mistaking cleverness for ironic detachment and his singularly innovative mode of theory - to - practice film geekery for plagiaristic slapdash kitsch just as Tarantino is reaching personal heights as an auteur, and it begs the question: did Shakespeare have to deal with cooler - than - thou backlash from his detractors?

Though the studio's average Metascore was actually a few points higher in 2011 than in 2010 — and though it placed third among the major studios in overall quality — Warner films generally failed to excite critics last year, with only the Harry Potter film, Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, and the Steve Carell rom - com Crazy, Stupid, Love.

«It does, I have to admit, tend to bog down in the seemingly infinite twists and bits of business leading up to the climax, and movie - overfed - critic types are likely to fondly recall the better movies, including «I Walked With a Zombie» and «The Princess Bride,» that this draws inspiration from,» confesses MSN film critic Glenn Kenny, who gives the film more of a pass than I do.

Quick review: «The Shallows» No film may have gotten a bigger pass from consumer movie critics so far this summer than «The Shallows» (don't worry «The BFG» is right around the corner).

It may be surprising for you to learn that in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence of professional film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack of regular film reviews of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.

Now that almost every single film critic in the country has published their top ten list, we can sit back, relax and think about the upcoming year, a year which will bring forth more sequels than ever before and an industry that — supposedly — keeps shrinking in ideas and creative freedom.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

It also received highly positive reviews with some critics lauding it for doing the near - impossible task of compressing more than a dozen superheroes in a film that while feeling overstuffed never overwhelms moviegoers with exposition.

After I saw it at the Toronto film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then early this year it came out on video.

Furthermore, the film curiously opens on the same day as X-Men: Apocalypse, which has booked 400 more theaters and presumably will open in first place even with mixed reviews that are still sure to be better than what Alice draws from critics.

It is hard to remember how few serious film critics held podiums twenty years ago (when Time magazine carried more influence, for that matter, than all the rest of the media combined — among the handful of moviegoers who read reviews at all).

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online cCritics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online ccritics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online criticscritics.

The 300 - plus member Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) of television, radio, and online film critics voted on the awards and they usually do a better job than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in my oCritics Association (BFCA) of television, radio, and online film critics voted on the awards and they usually do a better job than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in my ocritics voted on the awards and they usually do a better job than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in my opinion.

In his own words, «I am more a film fan than a film critic.

The BFCA is the largest film critics» organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online critics.

About BFCA / BTJA The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online cCritics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online ccritics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online criticscritics.

However, I've yet to hear much personal discussion on it from anyone other than the critics and it would seem that Farhadi has still some way to go before he gets the recognition he deserves among your average film enthusiast.

Considering that Smith claims that he made this film for teen girls, not for one moment does Yoga Hosers feel like anything other than a mid-40s writer / director shaking his fist at a younger phone - desperate generation, making inside jokes for the adults in the audience and lambasting the critics that have wronged him in the past.

Blogger and critic Chris Williams has been writing about film and faith for more than a decade.

While I wouldn't want to argue with a dead film critic (though it's easier than arguing with live ones), it's worth pointing out that one of Bahrani's co-writers on 99 Homes is the veteran Iranian director Amir Naderi (best known for his 1984 movie The Runner).

Too much of the time, though, director Rod Lurie (a former film critic whose directorial credits include political dramas such as «The Contender») establishes a pace that dutifully trudges from scene to scene rather than taking time to reveal anything unexpected.

To the present writer, Arkadin is clearly the better film, but The Stranger is nonetheless, at the very least, a fascinating curio, and if it's a minor film (if...), then it's the sort of minor film that only a really major talent could make, and an excellent example of what the Cahiers du Cinéma critics meant about the failures of the great being better films than the best work of lesser talents.

Critic Consensus: George of the Jungle is faithful to its source material — which, unfortunately, makes it a less - than - compelling feature film.

Men critics in areas other than film wrote an average of 6 film reviews whereas women with this job title wrote an average of 3 film reviews.

In all, the film garnered more than 100 awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and appeared on more than 70 critics» lists of the year's best films.