Sentences with phrase «film transcends»

The scenes featuring the survivors are where the film transcends its procedural narrative.

Occasionally, however, a Marvel film transcends this impersonality and justifies one's patience.

Although its origins often show, the film transcends and becomes one of the more moving in recent memory.

Ramsay has always brought a unique visual style to her work, but with this film it transcends into the poetic.

Only time will tell if this film transcends the tired tropes on display here, but at the very least it promises to be something of a quality repetition of the clichés its embracing.

Toolbox Murders: it's a butcher's - menu of a title whose visceral potential — next time you mention it to someone, watch his or her face light up in mock disgust — almost outweighs its attendant stigma, and while the slayings pack a vicarious punch, nothing about the film transcends its very superfluousness.

But thanks to Baumbach's and Gerwig's inspired script — and especially the latter's captivating and charming performance — the film transcends mumblecore's almost in - built mediocrity.

With a more modern rewrite from Travis Fine, who also directs, the film transcends its emotionally manipulative, with Cumming's tour de force performance as its pulsing heart.

Led by the charming Bill Paxton and the always - stellar Helen Hunt, with supporting performances by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cary Elwes, the film transcends its hokey storyline to become a first - rate entertainment.

For others, however, the film transcended such moral questions while it lasted.

One of those films that shows how truly incredible films transcend time and place.

Few political films transcend their historic moment.

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From singing show tunes in Grease to playing a ruthless hitman in Pulp Fiction, Travolta's talent has transcended many decades as he continues to take on A-list roles in blockbuster films.

Maybe this Obama - Satan controversy will inspire more scrupulous souls to make a Bible film that transcends the stereotypes of our time and represents the best of the Book.

Prof Crook is sceptical of the speculative futures (dystopian or otherwise) envisaged by sci - fi films where an AI «singularity» occurs and machines become self - aware as they transcend the intelligence of their human creators.

The image, as film distributors learned early, transcends the limitations of words.

In this film, even the worst people imaginable are given story arcs that transcend political correctness, or even a sense of justice, focusing on the challenges of sorrow, anger, and other seemingly unbearable emotions.

Only through photographic film and digital detectors can we transcend the Purkinje shift and perceive the full rainbow richness of the cosmos.

When, late in the film, you watch her apply her rouge too heavily, you see a woman longing to be storybook - pretty enough to transcend the ugliness around her.

The film never transcends its subject matter to be more than an information dump: it fails to tell a meaningful story about either the family, the time period, filmmaking, or North Korea.

By no reasonable reckoning can the film be considered a competent piece of cinematic storytelling, yet somehow the movie transcends its silly screenplay with over-the-top action and visually imaginative battles.

We now have the distance to see just how close to a flawless and utterly timeless a film Steven Spielberg and his collaborators crafted — one that transcended genres (sci - fi and kids» movies) to become of one of the greatest and most durable of American movies.

The King (and Anne Margaret) transcend the formulaic banaltiy of this film.

The film franchise has always transcended the summer blockbuster genre, providing worlds and characters and scenarios that have stuck in my mind.

Knightley's character flirts with Manic Pixie Dream Girl preciousness, but imbues the character with a humanity that transcends the type; she's got a lovely monologue at a key moment in their arc (concerning her love of vinyl, of course) that moves the film into the realm of pathos with an almost invisible dexterity.

Thankfully, Robbie brings such passion and drive to the role that she transcends the film's more garishly cartoonish elements.

This film, ultimately, is about the need mankind has to transcend its limited thinking and move into dimensions that are greater than its narrow aims.

We've seen movies built around this kind of story a million times and while Jordan Canning's film Suck It Up never makes any attempts to transcend its genre trappings, it's at least sporadically amusing.

For the most part, «My Life Without Me» ably transcends TV - movie, disease - of - the - week waters (thanks to Sarah Polley's gritty performance), but even she can't save the scene in which a neighbor (whom we just met) gives an incredibly maudlin monologue that grinds the whole film to a halt.

Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that mediocrity is transcended, because if you're willing to run with a film this overtly stylish and incoherent in its pacing, you can expect plenty of decent liveliness, particularly in style.

For Denis» film - which may be her most intricately constructed and intensely beautiful to date - is one that transcends words and stories, a movie to be felt rather than rationalized.

Yet both those films had a depth and mystery and power that transcended the moment; you could watch them 20 years from now and they would still echo.

This film is a fairly good attempt for the show to transcend to the big screen.

This film could have gone quite a distance, and it does have the heart to do so, but not the consistency, because, when it's all said and done, the pacing is too uneven, the narrative too undercooked, and the dramatics being too overambitious to transcend sentimentality, yet still too lazy to transcend formula, for the final product to truly reward.

But in crafting a film about the pain a parent feels after losing a child in battle, Crowe transcends borders and politics.

But there are some spots that transcend the rote nature of the film: Zach Galifianakis» gonzo Alan walks with all the film's memorable moments, from his asking about beeper - friendliness to his speech on the roof, and his Rain Man infatuation to his treatment of the baby they find in a closet.

Their rounded / layered characterizations is what really makes the film shine, transcending the politically provoking / gimmicky premise.

Such atmospheric stiffness joins with uneven structural pacing until the final product feels utterly aimless, and such an unfortunate formula does heavy damage to a film that arguably barely comes up with enough engaging aspects to transcend mediocrity.

It is a film that transcends genres, it's more than a kid's sci - fi yarn.

A charming, witty, passionate romantic drama about a love transcending space and time, Somewhere In Time is an old - fashioned film in the best sense of that term.

He isn't copying, but transcending; there's a kind of urgency in the film, as if he's turning up the heat under his memories.

The film's broader shift in perspective is its most impressive, as its sympathies gradually tilt from Lady Bird, a teen desperate to transcend her upbringing, to Marion, a mother who sacrifices her time and her body for her family without reward.

Other films that are definitely worth checking out that played at TIFF (and other festivals): Adam Wingard's rapturous and playful The Guest, Palm d'Or winner Winter Sleep, latest from master filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne Two Days, One Night, 3 and a half hour epic Li» l Quinquin, harrowing street life portrait Heaven Knows What, ambitious and transcending Jauja, and Mike Leigh's exemplary Mr. Turner.

It transcends merely bad, merely tedious, merely irksome and plummets into that very special category of film, the one that so tries and tortures its audience that, emerging again from the soul - sucking black hole of celluloid disaster, it no longer fears... Read More»

«Die Hard» is one of those rare action films that transcends demographics, appealing to both young and old people, men and women.

The film itself isn't lighting any stages on fire any time soon, but the soundtrack to Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping has that rare quality of transcending the film itself and becoming something wholly worthwhile and hilarious all on its own.

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is in a realm all its own, transcending the familiar animated film platform and incorporating artistry from many different mediums.

Transcending the boundaries of both biopics and animated films alike with rich material, gorgeous images, a devastating story, and one of the most powerful thematic interpretations of the passion that comes with creativity, the story of Jiro Horikoshi and his journey from wide - eyed dreamer to war - engineer is a heartbreaking, existentially maddening, astoundingly beautiful and human film.

While he does not offer much criticism of these films, Cowie at least recognises their limitations — something Kurosawa transcended with Ikiru, the second film (the first being Rashomon [1950]-RRB- in which he truly articulated his genius as a director.

That may sound extreme but somehow it comes across, selling you on all that transcends and making the film play like a look at a shared time in these individuals» lives, and not a conventional three - act Hollywood script.