Sentences with phrase «films of the year by»

The Disaster Artist is an eye - watering, face - aching crowd - pleaser and the funniest film of the year by quite a mile.

Zero Dark Thirty, a movie about the hunt for, and eventual killing of, Osama (or Usama, as he should be called, as this film reminds us) bin Laden, has received mostly extremely positive reviews, and has even been called the best film of the year by some.

Over the last two weeks, The Atlantic has delved into some of the most interesting films of the year by examining a single, noteworthy moment and unpacking what it says about 2016.

Bursting onto the scene at the Cannes Film Festival where it was greeted with a 15 - minute standing ovation (and the Best Director Award for Refn), the film — which co-stars Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman and Albert Brooks — has since went on to rack up the accolades and just manages to pip Attack the Block as our favourite film of the year by the narrowest of margins.

It was named one of the 10 best films of the year by the National Board of Review, and Hong Chau has received multiple Supporting Actress nominations for her performance - including the Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globes.

The film is expected to be one of 2017's top awards contenders, being named film of the year by the National Board of Review and ranking on the American Film Institute's best movies of the year list.

That makes it one of the most successful films of the year by anyone's estimate.

ARRIVAL has been named one of the best films of the year by the American Film Institute, National Board of Review, New York Times, USA Today and many more.

FENCES also has been named one of the best films of the year by the American Film Institute, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, the Producers Guild of America and more.

«Boyhood» was named the best film of the year by IndieWire as well.

PAUL GREENGRASS» harrowing 9/11 drama UNITED 93 was named film of the year by British critics last night (08FEB07).

The best film of the year by a million miles is an animation that runs for just over an hour and has as its protagonist a simple stick man, the kind a child would draw.

Mad Max: Fury Road has been named the best film of the year by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI).

And it was, in my view, the best film of the year by a solid margin.

While this comedy starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill isn't the funniest film of the year by a long shot, I firmly believe that its unfortunate timing was its box office downfall.

Not exact matches

I juxtaposed the two views a few years ago in my TEDx talk by comparing a pair of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future of flying cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated film that had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.

Ken Jacowitz, a 54 - year - old librarian from the New York borough of Queens, called it «a funny film made by funny people.»

«Homecoming» may be the sixth Spider - Man movie from Sony in 15 years, but it's by far one of the top two films in the entire franchise.

The list is sorted by the film's release date rather than the number of rentals in a year.

The oddity is compounded by the fact that, in recent years, the trappings of the disaster film have overtaken other genres as well.

The producers of the film tried to show it again at this year's Telluride Film Festival but were once again stopped by Franklin's lawyers.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

According to Fremaux, the film festival had wanted to screen two Netflix films this year, in particular The Other Side Of The Wind, an unfinished project by Orson Welles.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

The deal, expected to close by the end of the year, would give AT&T control of cable TV channels HBO and CNN, film studio Warner Bros and other coveted media assets.

12 Years a Slave The misleading poster by Italian film distributor BIM Distribuzione featured the giant head of movie star Brad Pitt, who served only a supporting role in the film, while the movie's lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was given a tiny spot at bottom right corner.

Since launching a few years ago, the brand's products have been worn by Beyoncé and her dancers on tour, as well as by the cast of the blockbuster film Hidden Figures.

For example, earlier this year organizers of the South by Southwest music, film and technology conference used Telemetry to monitor foot traffic and see in real time where bodies were aggregating and which venues were most popular.

IMDB In anticipation of breaking into online video, Amazon bought the film and TV database company, started as a pet project eight years earlier by a U.K. - based cinephile computer programmer who continued running the company under Bezos.

There Will Be No Stay, a documentary film released last year, profiles two former majors in South Carolina's department of corrections Swat team who sued the state for allegedly pressuring them into assisting in multiple executions with minimal training and no counselling (the case was eventually dismissed by a judge).

The 39 - year - old native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who started as a nightclub stripper there at 17, has appeared in more than 250 X-rated films, beginning in 2000; was signed as an exclusive with major porn studio Wicked Pictures in 2002 (she's still a contract player for them); and has been inducted into multiple industry halls of fame, including the one run by leading industry trade publication Adult Video News.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

Despite all the attention paid lately to the lack of gender diversity in the role, the portion of films directed by women declined last year, to just 7 %.

Braid's producers aim to wrap the film in time to screen it at next year's South by Southwest festival in Austin as part of the process of getting a distribution deal.

In five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.

The upcoming reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise features one of the funniest ensemble casts of any film this year: Along with stars Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, the sci - fi comedy will also feature appearances by Cecily Strong, Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a bunch of other big names.

Any doubts of whether the 34 - year - old was ready to handle directing solo — a role that often comes much later in the film industry — have been silenced by early buzz around the film mixed with Lady Bird's current score of 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Unlike the Academy Awards, which are voted on by a huge coalition of film industry pros, the Golden Globes are determined by a tiny cabal of people who aren't really connected to the film industry and possibly not to reality either because, hoo boy, this year's nominations are in and we've got some questions.

In the event, Queen Christina was among the most successful films of the year (as were at least three others condemned that year by the Legion).

In the most haunting scene in the film, sometime in the middle of the wintry night after he drives by Akron, Ohio, where he knows his two - year old child lives, whom he until recently thought was aborted, Davis encounters one of those cats again, apparently one he abandoned, when it darts out in front of his car.

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

That curve ball was just one of the memories I recalled as my wife, our 12 - year - old son and I watched «Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story,» a film directed by Peter Miller, written by New York Times sportswriter Ira Berkow and narrated by actor Dustin Hoffman.

But we will never reverse that stereotype by only buying tickets to the dozens of films made specifically for a Christian audience every year.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

The movie is the brainchild of retail mogul Mart Green, who heard Steve Saint and Mincaye speak at a conference in 1999 and was so moved by the story that he decided to turn it into a film — two films, actually; the companion documentary, Beyond the Gates of Splendor, released last year.

Sofia Coppola's remake of the 1971 film starring Clint Eastwood — itself an adaptation of a novel by Thomas P. Cullinan — doesn't just boast one of the year's best ensembles.

Filmed over two years, Michelin Stars — Tales From The Kitchen, gives us a behind the scenes look at the lives and stresses of starred chefs with a tale woven together by food critics and diners.

After seeing the film «Julia & Julia» with my parents last year, my mother bought «Mastering the Art of French Cooking» by Julia Child and immediately got to work on boeuf bourguignon.

Each cocktail has been inspired by events from the last 18 years, such as the Oscar haul director Danny Boyle picked up in 2009 for his film Slumdog Millionaire and the death of singer Amy Winehouse in 2011.

Produced by Bemis Co., the barrier film pouch opens easily, holds two tablespoons of paste and delivers a one year shelf life.