Sentences with phrase «good fall film»

This seems like a good fall film, charming and entertaining, with a few great performances.

Not exact matches

This summer's box - office totals have also suffered from the expansion of blockbuster season as a handful of films likely to be among the year's biggest releases are slated to come out this fall, among them best - selling novel adaptation Gone Girl, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the latest Hunger Games installment.

The Academy dubbed it the year's best movie, but it is still an indie film and — Oscar bump or not — it will fall well short of any blockbuster's box - office gross.

Traditional attitudes still widely assumed to be valid are, in fact, generally bankrupt, The attempt to force Hollywood to produce «good» films has fallen with the demise of the old Roman Catholic Legion of Decency.

In this respect, the «psychic» who regularly liven up the press in the New Year — at least in the US — with predictions that California will fall into the sea, the president will be abducted by aliens and some film star will give birth at the age of 65, evidently understand their audience better than the astrologers.

With a promising start, the film seemed building up to something real good, only to completely fall apart in the final third.

(And although Galifianakis too often falls back on his ostentatiously off - kilter shtick, the comedian fares much better here than he did in The Hangover and actually does a decent job with the film's dramatic moments.)

The film had a good idea, but it quickly falls apart, and becomes a tired film that tries too hard to deliver the thrills.

The first couple of times we saw My Darling Clementine on the late show we watched the beginning, fell asleep in the middle, woke up at the end, and thought we had sat through one of the best films we had ever seen.

Redmayne kind of does the same thing as well, so the film falls squarely on Vikander's shoulders.

In this romantic film, the lazy neer - do - well nephew whose uncle is a wealthy owner of apple orchards, falls in love with a poor girl.

The pressure off, they're free to make out like teenagers and fall in love, a happy interlude the film covers with smart economy, so as to spend more time on getting to know this «hot grandma» (she's struggling to keep her middle daughter pregnancy - free through high school), as well as the couple's first big fight, occasioned when she wonders why he still doesn't want to sleep with her after nearly 20 dates.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly re-team with that film's director, Adam McKay, to tell the tale of two pampered best friends whose single parents fall in love and decide to marry.

He is aided in this effort by Gordon's former mistress Myrna Loy, who has all of the film's best lines (When her protecter Baxter falls asleep on a couch, Loy complains «A few more nights like this and I'll be out of condition.»)

The film was good and I liked the bit when megamind was falling with his gun I rate 5 for megamind falling and when they thought metroman died

The ensemble thriller stars Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, and Penn Badgley, and was one of the better reviewed films released this fall.

The best argument for shooting on celluloid in the digital age gets made in the Romanian film When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

Although in many respects a more stylish, authentic, tougher - minded film than «Hotel Rwanda,» director Michael Caton - Jones» respectable and well - intentioned Beyond the Gates (aka Shooting Dogs) still falls into the trap of filtering an inherently African story through the eyes of a noble white protagonist — in this case, two of them.

The story here was actually pretty good, but the film moves at an absolute snails pace, felling well longer than 96 minutes.

There's a unique novelty in general to this film's featuring its protagonist as a biopic in the starring role, and as a war film, it has a few other twists, but when it falls to formula, it falls pretty hard, with very mid-20th century Hollywood tropes to its plotting, characterization and, for that matter, fluff which tends to get a little too fluffy for its own good.

It does have a few holes story wise, but the performances from Granger and Walker alone make this worthy of a view, and it is not hard to fall in love with how Hitchcock shoots his films, as well as the music he selects to raise the hair on the back of your neck at the precise, appropriate time.

With a strong supporting cast that includes James Marsden, Tim Robbins, Wes Bentley, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Linda Cardellini, Loretta Devine, and Thomas Mann, Shira Piven's film, from a script by Eliot Lawrence, earned very good reviews when it premiered in Toronto last fall, and it opens in limited release this weekend.

A well acted, and executed film with an interesting concept, Fallen delivers, and with a cast like this, it's also a must see.

However, I felt that Blood Car could have benefitted from a few rewrites as the concept is very good, but it does fall short of what the film could have been.

An indifferent stylist at best, [Jaglom's] films stand or fall depending on the talent and appeal of his leads, and he's found a good one in Frederick.

I thought that the films premise was good, but halfway through the film, everything falls apart, and the film just drags on, and becomes boring, unimpressive and dull.

Garland, whose only other directorial feature is Ex Machina, a film I thought was the best movie of its entire year, tries his hand at adapting this phenomenal book into a screenplay and then into a film, but he couldn't do it without falling back on a ton of typical elements, and that's a real shame.

TURAN: Good versus evil films often rise or fall on the strength of the evil doer, and in the Oscar - winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mission Impossible 3 has a spectacular actor who delivers some deeply unnerving speeches.

Studi's other notable film credits include: THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN, which he also produced, THE NEW WORLD, STREET FIGHTER, SERAPHIM FALLS, THREE PRIESTS and such prestigious television movies as CRAZY HORSE, COMANCHE MOON, STREETS OF LAREDO, BROKEN CHAIN and BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE.

Sicario is a well written story, however the film does fall short in some scenes with slow moving plot points and a handful of unnecessary scenes.

A horse breeder travels to Argentina to obtain good racing stock where she falls in love and copes with a future hated father in law, A great film pure joy.

There are a ton of really silly moments that went way overboard, even for a Transformers film, but once the buildings start falling and the bombs start dropping you'll start to form a smile on your face that doesn't go away for a good 45 minutes.

Thank you for being one of the few reviewers who understood the brilliance of the early games as well as the reason why the film fell so short.

This film if it would have been rewritten might have been good fun, but the end result just suffers from a poor plot that ends up falling flat.

Falling in love with a girl from that same group, this film shows how bad can come from good and vice versa.

Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master might have lost the Golden Lion in Venice (while still winning Best Director and Best Actor (s) awards), but it emerged as the most critically acclaimed film of the fall festival season.

Not that any film in which it's OK to fall in love with your best friend can be truly authentic, but what do you expect?

Bay and screenwriter Ehren Kruger must have noticed that amphetamine - fueled mugging tested well in Revenge of the Fallen, so the third film is graced with the brilliantly hyperactive Ken Jeong — perhaps the one actor in Bay's 17 - year directing career who perfectly embodies his outsized, everything - plus - half - again - as - much style — and John Malkovich.

With all of my complaints about how this film all too often discards promising plot areas to spark a sense of unevenness, hurrying, outside of that area of storytelling, is hardly a big deal, so what this series really has to worry about is, of course, bloating, because all of this unevenness, as well as repetition, could have perhaps been avoided if this saga wasn't just so blasted overblown, not necessarily to the point of falling flat as too sprawling to stick with, but decidedly to the point of feeling rather overambitious.

Though well acted and beautifully crafted, «Devil in a Blue Dress» falls short of being something special because, although the concept of an African American film noir is commendably original and the background climate - of racial prejudice and the post-WWII hangover in L.A. - is fascinating, the actual mystery is pretty run - of - the - mill.

may run a wee bit long (111 minutes) for single digit kidlets but this family film, about the (literal) fall of a toupee wearing, A-list movie star mutt into service at a firehouse was a pretty good sit.

Firehouse Dog may run a wee bit long (111 minutes) for single digit kidlets but this family film, about the (literal) fall of a toupee wearing, A-list movie star mutt into service at a firehouse was a pretty good sit.

Though the film attempts to link the five stories, it falls well short of the Altman Standard for creative interweaving.

It's a lot better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but it's not quite as good as the first film.

It's a very well - made film from a technical aspect, but in an attempt to appease those who have nothing but contempt for anything outside the»87 original, it falls into a trap of repetition, turning a men - on - a-mission film into a slowly dying group of cartoon characters.

Since director Sebastian Gutierrez likes to employ loosely connected vignettes in his films, these deleted scenes should fall into place pretty well.

The second Hanks film this Fall isn't one that's going to get him nominations (though a Critics Choice Best Actor in an Action Movie nod could be a possibility).

While the main event of the film certainly did happen, as well as some of the scenes (some of them, excerpted from the documentary, are shown during the end credits), the film as a whole does tend to traverse familiar territory as far as feel - good sports films go, especially with the final game where all of the loose ends comfortably fall into place.

Also this summer, independent and foreign films feature an anime dream warrior («Paprika»), Parisian gangsters («Angel - A»), four women, a wedding, a funeral and a disco («Falling»), spectral kidnappers («Ghost Train») and good old - fashioned sex («Lady Chatterley»).

Last year's Jackie was a psychologically devastating look at the widowed Jackie Kennedy boasting one of the absolute best performances of the year by Natalie Portman, whereas in comparison LBJ is a film that will be thrown on in American History classes only for teenagers to fall asleep.