Sentences with phrase «finessed film»

A finessed film about growing up, getting together and not giving up, Beginners is wondrous and whimsical, brimming in content and execution with imperfections and possibilities.

Not exact matches

As yet the camera work is a little shaky and the picture somewhat grainy, but the technical finesse of the electron film - franchise can only improve with time.

It just hums as Affleck and editor William Goldenberg («Heat,» «The Insider») have paced their storytelling with such finesse that even the most disparate elements of the film seem of a whole.

He followed it up by headlining comedy concert films such as the 2006 Finesse Mitchell: Snap Famous — Live and snagged roles in films such as the 2007 Big Boi - starrer Who's Your Caddy?

It may try to force too much information into too little time if you don't know about the history and technology of film, but this documentary romanticizes the art with such passion and finesse that it stands as a reaffirmation of the power of movies and the importance of understanding their history and possible future.

Whatever the case, the film offers a comparatively relaxed Martin and Lewis, wandering through a thinnish plot with amiable finesse.

If it doesn't tie many (or any) of these thematic strands with a neat bow, that's in the nature of a film that chooses raw dramatic power over narrative finesse.

Alternately crass and treacly, overbearing and under - finessed, the film... is on life support from get - go.

Even the screenwriters get blasted in most of the reviews posted online, similarly to TheWrap's film critic Andy Klein «s review, who said «the four credited screenwriters — the returning Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt, plus Christian Gudegast («A Man Apart») and Chad St. John — make things move fast enough to keep you awake, but not fast enough to finesse its plot absurdities past an alert viewer's mind.»

Cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman shoots the film with a modern camera but attacks each scene with finesse and diligence like an old pro.

Yet Harding's prowess on the ice — her spins and jumps sinuously shot, the camera keeping close, in perhaps the film's only display of finesse — would seem to be the least important metric.

Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the Giallo set.

There's no question of his talent, as both films are very well made, but there's also no question that Miramax pushed both films with finesse, scoring their eighth consecutive film to be in the top five choices.

The film does find the director showing off a visual finesse worth admiring, however, and therein lies its only real merit.

The film leaps from scene to scene without the finesse required for a good screenplay.

So it's a shame, especially in a film about a serial killer, that «Bad Samaritan» has so little finesse.

In the end Evolution of a Criminal is an admirable film from a first time director, one which reveals his innate storytelling ability, even if it occasionally lacks the polish and finesse of more experienced directors.

An admirable film from a first time director that reveals an innate storytelling ability, if at times lacking finesse.

The film presents the relationship with a purity and finesse with which filmmakers would treat any other nonconventional relationship.

The film deals with a taboo subject matter (which I won't spoil in case you have stayed completely spoiler free on this one) but the characters and their motives never seem false or contrived, mainly due to the finesse of the actors in their skins.

Soderbergh has become one of my favorite directors of the past decade or so, and just as Solaris brings up many questions in its story that are largely left unanswered, so does a director who seems equally as enigmatic by doing so many completely different films with almost effortless finesse.

Oliver Schmitz's finessed feature also made the best foreign language film shortlist for the 2011 Academy Awards, with the work of the Mapantsula making the nine - strong shortlist but failing to endure through to the final five.

«Freddy Got Fingered» (2001): Tom Green's gross - out comedy lacked the fun, and comparative comic finesse, of the «Jackass» films that would follow.

As Rian audaciously had teens mouth off with film noir finesse, Johnson cast an atmospheric spell that turned all manner of metallic sounds and unstrung instruments into the fast - talking patter for secondary education's murderous underbelly, an eerily innovative «junkyard orchestra» that used every «found» instrument from cheese graters to closing cabinets to reflect «Brick's» 40s era homages.

Dragging its feet to the bitter end, the film lacks the strength to pull itself up from its disposable January action movie mediocrity and the finesse to invest us in this older guy re-boarding the train to combat a faceless plot.

I would be cheating my own rules for this annual exercise if I were to crown Howards End as my film of the year - I have in fact seen it many, many times before and loved it for a long time (although never before was I able to enjoy the finesse of its narrative structure, and admire its sumptuous mise - en - scene and art direction - actually delivered on a shoestring budget - on a big screen).

Thus, it's hard to not be skeptical and suspect that Raimi's film (much like Burton's) could amount to another dazzling, but hollow, mishmash of muddled storytelling and technical finesse.

Full liberation comes when Kochadaiiyaan makes his proper entry into the film, showing just why the film is named after him with a startling athletic display that Ashwin not only animates but shoots and cuts with fluid finesse as well as a refreshing feeling of freedom.

Room's director, Lenny Abrahamson — whose previous film was the offbeat Frank, starring Michael Fassbender as an eccentric musician who wears a large papier - maché head — navigates the balance with remarkable finesse, working from a screenplay written by Donoghue.

Director Oliver Stone does such amazing work on this film that presents the story of a controversial person with such art and finesse.

This isn't inherently a bad idea, just one that has to be handled with a lot of finesse (as opposed to camp, which is the major currency that these films choose to trade on).

The film lacks a kind of finesse in developing these characters and the issues raised.

There's a finesse to comedy that is completely missed with this film.

Shadow detail is all over the map and there's a dreary colour scheme to the film that could've been finessed to at least look stylish.

However, Davis «SFX along with Liman's steady direction, manage to capture the essence of both with a finesse, in what is arguably the strongest aspects of the film.

McDonagh isn't able to balance his film with the same finesse as the Coens.

Too often big screen science fiction movies finesse such complicated matters with the recent Her being a good example of a film that ultimately avoids facing the full implications of its premise.

Eric White's paintings reference 20th century film, music and pop culture backed by consummate draftsmanship and painterly finesse to subvert and recode the dominant narratives of contemporary society.