Sentences with phrase «from superior films»

Material from superior films from the annals of this dark and curiously entertaining genre.

Not exact matches

In the early 1968's, the National Council of Churches radically revised its approach to the film industry, moving from a self - serving pietism to a support for artistically superior films that deal honestly with the human condition.

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A committed central performance from Jasmine Hyde can't quite save this half - baked thriller that matches jarring tonal leaps and narrative ineptitude with unfortunate echoes of superior films.

While Anon doesn't boast a superior story, it's engaging in the way many B - grade noir films from the «40s and «50s were — pulpy excursions into the dark side of human nature with hard - bitten heroes and duplicitous femmes fatale.

This film is a great ride from start to finish.Maniac Cop is a superior B movie.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

Still, Rebecca is clearly a superior classic film, one that is immensely engrossing, leaving you forever haunted by its memory, much the way Rebecca does to those she left behind in this terrific story from Daphne du Maurier's novel.

For the most part, the film looks true to its seamy quality, and at any rate, the unrated version looks vastly superior to the material that fills in the included director's cut, all of which was clearly gathered from inferior sources.

And, though far from outstanding, August is a superior film to that muddled prime minister biopic.

GKids» new release is the definitive English - language edition of this film on Blu - ray, combining the key extras from both the Ghibli and Disney Blu - rays, while offering superior A / V quality, and correcting the Disney Blu - ray's subtitle mistake.

The years leading up to 1987 included a string of more accomplished work from Allen, and there were several superior films still to come.

In many other Coen Brother's films, they sometimes seem to view their rural characters and settings from a somewhat superior distance, like incredulous anthropologists.

The premise is promising but it's hard to distance this film from the superior original.

Though not quite proactively bad, the movie does virtually nothing to justify its existence — especially given that it follows in the footsteps of not one but two superior films: Kurosawa's 1954 masterpiece, The Seven Samurai, and the 1960 John Sturges western from which Fuqua's borrows its title and genre.

This is a paint - by - numbers production, filled with beats resembling ones from superior animated films, among them Disney's The Lion King, Brother Bear, and The Fox and the Hound (which producer Richard Rich directed).

In 1986, Rob Zombie deleted the black comedy from his previous film, «House of 1,000 Corpses,» for its nihilistic, superior follow - up, «The Devil's Rejects.»

The film's makers, including director R.J. Cutler and screenwriter Shauna Cross (working from Gayle Forman's novel), are clearly playing to a target audience — the same folks who lined up earlier this summer for the vastly superior The Fault in Our Stars — though they do so with dismayingly little effort to freshen up the formula.

Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman was the best thing about the swampy Batman v Superman, and now her solo outing is the far superior film: Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins, elevates her from third wheel to real deal.

It suffers a bit from poor timing since it comes on the heels of The Post, a thematically similar film with more urgency, superior source material, better character development, and greater contemporary resonance.

It's Natalie Portman who saves the film from flat - lining completely and her performance is one that is far superior than the film itself.

It's Natalie Portman that saves the film from flat - lining completely and her performance is one that is far superior than the film itself.

Instead of steering away from last year's blockbuster hit, IM3 follows it up with a superior film that focuses on some of the aftereffects of its storyline.

What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.

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.

The film's only decent male figure is Harvey Keitel's Hal Slocumb, the compassionate Arkansas cop who's hot on the duo's trail, but — as befitting a story that presents testosterone as a dangerous enemy of female independence — he's barely heard from except during police procedural sequences in which he interviews suspects, taps phone lines, and argues with superiors in an unconvincing Southern accent.

Then there's his superior Champagne (Jeff Bridges), who strangely never seems to leave the Statesmen's boardroom, and technical advisor Ginger Ale (Halle Berry), who spends the film as a glorified Satnav, offering directions to the nearest satellite - surveilled baddie from behind a desktop computer.

On the other hand, there's a sense of warmth and community in a couple scenes in this film that are increasingly rare in contemporary film, and an underrated aspect of Ozu's films, one that, as I recall, is mostly absent from Hou Hsiao - hsien's Ozu tribute, the otherwise superior Café Lumière.

Clips from the first film confirm that it is, indeed, superior to its sequel — which does nothing to relieve the conundrum introduced by Evans's commentary, in which he affirms that The Sandlot 2 might very well be the best movie ever made.

Paddington, the creation of the late Michael Bond, has existed in the middle ground of popular characters from children's literature, but he endures nonetheless, returning to the cultural conversation after the first film from a few years back and hopefully capturing an even larger portion of hearts and minds after this vastly superior sequel.

The meat of the content is based on The Avengers, with other levels covering Marvel's superior phase two films, like Age of Ultron, The Winter Soldier and Iron Man 3, sequels that all benefitted from having the bar significantly raised by Joss Whedon's 2012 team - up flick.

Having taken its title from the swashbuckling Hollywood film Master and Commander (2003), the banner - like textile work appropriates the words of a superior to his subordinates — in this case a tall ship's captain (played by actor Russel Crowe) to his crew — while also simply having the cadence of a great title.