Sentences with phrase «films like mud»

While 12 Years a Slave unsurprisingly pretty much cleaned house (earning 5 wins of its 7 nominations), it was nice to see some recognition for other, smaller films like Mud and Short Term 12.

Not exact matches

David Starsky is just the sort of uptight, anal retentive stick - in - the - mud that Stiller's has a lot of success with in films like Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly - while Wilson's Ken Hutchinson is reminiscent of virtually every character in the actor's repertoire (with few exceptions, including his rare dramatic performance in The Minus Man).

Whereas the latter film explored heavy emotions like loss evenly and with purpose, Love Liza's interest seems to be dragging you through the mud for an hour and a half with little to offer for it.

Just like «Mud,» however, «Joe» has some serious pacing issues — not because it's a slow burn, but because it's easily 20 minutes too long — and that ultimately hinders the film from being as great as it could have been.

Though it feels a lot like Jeff Nichols» Southern Gothic crime drama, «Mud» (which is ironic since Green reportedly cast youngster Tye Sheridan based on his work in that film), they're very different stories apart from the father - son dynamic between the two leads.

But she was hit anyway, and dragged through the mud a bit even for her past films like Lost in Translation.

Still, in smaller, quieter films, like those by indie director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special), Shannon has been restrained and therefore palatable, his excess reduced to a manageable (and very watchable) simmer.

Fragoso: Mud, in contrast to a film like Take Shelter — which sort of revels in the psychological horrors of Michael Shannon's character — is a bit of a lighter film.

Scott Cooper) Cast: Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker Muscular American crime movies have always been popular at Cannes, and with films like «Drive,» «Lawless,» «Killing Them Softly,» «Mud» and «The Paperboy» all premiering at the festival in the last few years, it seems that they're particularly to selectors» tastes at the moment.

Matthew McConaughey may have become a star as a leading man in major - studio films like «A Time to Kill» and «The Wedding Planner,» but in the last few years the laid - back Texan has reinvented and revived his career with a string of sparkling performances in low - budget indies: Richard Linklater «s «Bernie,» Steven Soderbergh's «Magic Mike,» William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe,» Jeff Nichols» «Mud» and now Jean - Marc Vallee's «Dallas Buyers Club,» which has made McConaughey a strong favorite to land a Best Actor nomination.

Though he used to be somewhat of a punch line, known more for his shirtless roles in flaky rom - coms than his promising earlier work, recently McConaughey has been repairing his reputation with a string of outstanding performances in films like «Killer Joe,» «Magic Mike» and «Mud.»

Certainly, there's no requirement that directors who train their eyes on such bleak social milieus mitigate the darkness and usher us out the door with sunshine: comparable films like Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher stay successfully mired in the mud without collapsing into nihilism.

Note: Certain films like Upstream Color (being self - distributed), Stoker, The East, Life According to Sam, Jobs, The Gatekeepers, No, Sightseers and Mud already had distribution secured before the festival began.

There is never in doubt about who are the truly dangerous people in the film, signalled in comic book - like terms by the bad guys being caked in dirt, whether it is Gale (John Goodman) and Evelle (William Forsythe), two criminal acquaintances of H.I. who escape from prison in a rainstorm and emerge from the ground covered in mud, or the shotgun - blasting, baby - hunting biker Leonard Smalls (Randall «Tex» Cobb), a lawless wanderer emerging through hellish flames with a pair of baby shoes attached to his belt that jingle like cowboy boot spurs.

An interesting companion piece to «Mud,» the film tells the story of two best friends (future megastar Nick Robinson, «Super 8» actor Gabriel Basso) who, fed up with their overbearing parents (including Nick Offerman, in his best non «Parks and Rec» performance to date), and with the help of show - stealing oddball Biaggio (Moises Arias), build a house in the woods where they can act like grown - ups.

Jeff Nichols ««Mud,» his third and most assured feature film, never feels like a put - on.

For director David Gordon Green, who cut his teeth on rich character studies like George Washington, Undertow, All the Real Girls and Mud, this moves closer to those films than his recent forays into flops like Our Brand is Crisis or wild comedy like Pineapple Express and Eastbound and Down.

Austin icon Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, which played two days later, would've been a better selection; unfortunately, like several of the best films at the festival (David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche, Jeff Nichols's Mud, and Hannah Fidell's A Teacher), it had already premiered at Sundance.

How much enjoyment you'll get from «The Eagle» probably has a lot to do with how you feel about the sight of Channing Tatum in Roman soldier garb, but director Kevin Macdonald earned our trust with superior films like «The King of Scotland» and «State of Play,» so we're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt — even if it means sitting through a PG - 13 period epic involving swords, spears, Scottish mud, and a lost emblem.