Sentences with phrase «former film critic»

Former film critic turned writer / director Rod Lurie (The Last Castle, Resurrecting the Champ) serves up another savvy political drama (after last year's sleeper Deterrence) that ranks as one of the better films in 2000.

Park is a film director, screenwriter, producer and former film critic who has emerged as one of the most significant talents in cinema in recent years.

After impressing with his debut, former film critic Lurie has destroyed all of his credibility in the space of two hours with this display of jaundiced jingoism.

Now we have Scorsese's long - gestating screen adaptation of «Silence,» and it's a frustrating paradox: a carefully considered, dramatically blinkered chamber epic, written by Scorsese and his occasional collaborator, former film critic Jay Cocks.

Arranged and photographed in largely static but never dull fixed shots, the movie comes from Anna Muylaert, a former film critic turned writer - director.

With Aquarius, which premiered in competition at Cannes, the former film critic continues to prove himself a shrewd observer of the world around him.

In 2015, Karina Longworth — former film critic and one - time Film Editor and chief critic at LA Weekly — said the following about her shift away from film criticism and into the research and storytelling that would animate her podcast, You Must Remember This:

Too much of the time, though, director Rod Lurie (a former film critic whose directorial credits include political dramas such as «The Contender») establishes a pace that dutifully trudges from scene to scene rather than taking time to reveal anything unexpected.

BERTRAND TAVERNIER The former film critic has a lovely new film, A Sunday in the Country, which he previews for our interviewer Dan Yakir.

Former film critic and co-author of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian writer - director Dario Argento has devoted himself these past 40 years to gory horror movies.

Some may recognize Grady Hendrix as the former film critic who ran Variety's superb Asian movie blog, Kaiju Shakedown.

My good friend Glenn Whipp, who's seen both sides of this topic as both a former film critic for the Los Angeles Daily News and now an awards expert for the Los Angeles Times, thinks the phrase «Oscar bait» is just a lazy pejorative, and one that's not always accurate.

A very probable inspiration for the dashing English spy played by Michael Fassbender in «Inglourious Basterds,» Dehn was a former film critic and admitted World War II assassin.

For only his second studio film — Bogdanovich made the excellent, but little seen, Targets, in 1968 — the former film critic chanced directing an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's elegiac novel about teenagers who come of age in a dying Texas town in the early fifties.