Sentences with phrase «fine little movie»

DVD Details: It's wonderful that this fine little movie found a wide audience, but also a shame that it was so overrated — a condition to which I myself contributed.

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As examples of fantasy filmmaking, as opposed to relics of worship, the «Harry Potter» movies do not, except in snatches, have the lyrical wonderfulness and visionary power that I associate with the finest examples of childhood imaginings on film — the animated films of Hayao Miyazaki («Spirited Away»), for example, or «The Black Stallion» or «The Red Balloon» or Alfonso Cuarón's «A Little Princess.»

As a showcase for many of the finest actors working today, it proves how essential performance is, even in movies that on their surface demand little more than fitting into a latex suit and affecting a convincing grimace.

Wendell Pierce and Michelle Williams can only do so much with so little, as the movie otherwise lets John Diehl, an otherwise fine character actor, free rein to go over the top in playing a stereotypical character, thereby sucking all of the oxygen out of the room.

Although his relationship with Selznick was stormy, he created several fine and notable features while working for the producer, either directly for Selznick or on loan to RKO and Universal, including Spellbound (1945), probably the most romantic of Hitchcock's movies; Notorious (1946); and Shadow of a Doubt (1943), considered by many to be his most unsettling film.In 1948, after leaving Selznick, Hitchcock went through a fallow period, in which he experimented with new techniques and made his first independent production, Rope; but he found little success.

Much like Guardians of the Galaxy the movie hints at stories that go beyond the typical superhero status quo, and while there are plenty of little hints as to how Strange's escapades fit into the bigger story, for the most part the filmmakers do a fine job of keeping things enjoyably self - contained.

Among the supporting players, the movies sees fine performances from the likes of Diane Lane as Rusty's sometimes girlfriend, the then - little - known likes of Nicolas Cage (Coppola's nephew and the son of August), Chris Penn and Vincent Spano as members of Rusty's gang, Laurence Fishburne as a local go - between and Sofia Coppola, billed as Domino, who is funny and charming in a few brief scenes as Lane's bratty younger sister.

That's fine, given the movie's purpose, but there's also little by way of helping us to understand fully what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Robert Zemeckis movies are never less than proficient technically and though Allied is a little different and more old - fashioned than the director's other work, it's still a showcase of fine picture and sound, whether viewed in 4K or plain old Blu - ray.

The two short featurettes are fine but of unsurprisingly little value to those not already taken by the movie and Coast Guard rescue missions in general.

No one will mistake Heist for a big budget, big studio feature, but this little action movie looks perfectly fine on Blu - ray.

Or at least the version of it — all stiff upper lip and sentimental polish — so frequently imagined in books like Kate Atkinson's beautiful Life After Life, or in movies like Their Finest (opening April 7), a gleaming little picture directed in return - to - form fashion by Lone Scherfig.

I'm sure it'll be a fine movie and funny in places but it looks like the same old Sandler is the little guy fighting for the girl formula.

movie of 2017 to deal with the evacuation of Dunkirk (joining, well, Dunkirk and the little seen Their Finest, a drama / comedy about making a movie about Dunkirk, signaling the snake's cue to eat its own tail), and the second time director Joe Wright has tackled the subject.

Whether you opt to wait another month for the Blu - ray edition or settle for this DVD, this movie is well worth seeing and the handful of extras add a little value to a fine feature presentation.

Again, we don't need a lot of character dimensionality for a movie such as this — a little exposition works fine, as the threats to the linemen should be enough to prompt our interest.

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Child prodigies have been explored through other fine movies such as Little Man Tate, Searching for Bobby Fischer, and Shine, and while this one may run a bit heavier on melodrama, but it's worthy of that group.

I wasn't planning to write about Gallery1988's first annual «Is This Thing On» art show as it really has little connection to movies or television (or so I thought... the above piece featuring Judd Apatow mashed - up with the infamous Star Trek Tribbles episode is a fine example of this).

Good movies (Arnaud Desplechin's Ismael's Ghosts, Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck) were dismissed for reasons that will make little sense a year from now; deficient movies (Michel Hazanavicius's Redoubtable, Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here) were praised as if people had taken the day off from writing critically; and preapproved, absolutely fine movies were, well, approved (Léonor Serraille's award - winning Jeune femme).

Although I'd normally advocate choosing the best version if you like a movie enough to own it, there's so little here that you might be fine saving the $ 6 and just settling on the standard disc.