Sentences with phrase «hard hitting film»

It's a hard hitting film for sure, with perfect casting and damn good acting.

Not exact matches

It's for reasons like this that a German documentarian named Ulli Wendelmann, known for hard - hitting exposés on the German prison system and Russia's oligarchy, recently filmed a documentary examining the oddball marriage between the New York startup and the former East German factory.

We spoke with Nick on the day his first feature film, the seriously twisted zombie apocalypse comedy Range 15, hit theaters (and hit them hard.)

That can work in the Red's favor if a director wants an edgy, harsher look, as appears to have been the case for Soderbergh's recent anxiety - soaked Side Effects or Robert Zemeckis's hard - hitting Flight — both filmed with Red cameras.

From the creators of the best - selling documentary FOOD MATTERS comes another hard - hitting film certain to rock your world.

I say dark, yes there are parts in this film that are hard hitting, poinient moments that really make you think and get you inside the characters being played, again i think this is down to the great acting.

The filmmakers seemed to be lacking the balls to make the film as hard hitting as it should be.

Snowden may not be one of director Oliver Stone's best, but this is why I believe critics are hitting this film a little harder than it deserves.

It will be extremely hard for the studio to match those figures in 2016, as many of its biggest franchises are sitting out the year and Universal's planned 21 - film slate doesn't feature any sure - thing blockbuster hits aside from (maybe) a still - untitled Bourne sequel.

Akin's film is the penultimate title to premiere in competition at Cannes, and while it doesn't seem headed for big awards, it still hit me hard in ways I didn't quite expect.

Critic Consensus: A must - see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard - hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best.

But for a film that tries to be important it isn't orchestrated substantively enough to be as raw and hard - hitting that a film about this subject matter should be.

Whenever a film hits me that hard and leave me sobbing by the end, that's usually a sign it's something special.

Despite Wiseau's hard - hitting dramatic intentions, The Room is a film that provides shared happiness and joy

Despite Wiseau's hard - hitting dramatic intentions, The Room is a film that provides shared happiness and joy Wiseau has been touring The Room for some time and it's always been complicated deciphering to what extent we're laughing with vs. at the filmmaker.

Like the characters, the third film is more matured but still hits hard where it counts.

Known for hard - hitting screenplays for Submarino and The Hunt which he co-wrote with director Thomas Vinterberg, and for the popular Danish TV drama Borgen, Tobias Lindholm's solo directorial debut is perhaps as remarkable in the script department as his previous work, but the film itself — like the ship it depicts — sometimes goes adrift.

For every movie featuring an Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Alice or Katniss Everdeen, Asian film industries managed to produce several dozen more entertaining, hard - hitting action flicks featuring strong female characters portrayed by butt - kicking heroines, many of them real - life martial arts champions or physically gifted dancers or performers.

Lastly, the vampire genre has hit mainstream audiences with cheesy teenage romance films like Twilight, making vampire based films hard to take serious.

Whilst Jane Campion has a tradition of making films about women in a men's world, I felt this film failed to be a hard hitting feminist discourse, mainly because the story was so ordinary.

After six years working on First Australians, it is not hard to imagine why, in 2009, Perkins embarked on the adaptation to film of Jimmy Chi's 1990s stage musical hit Bran Nue Dae.

It's not hard to pinpoint where the difference in quality between the two Vacation films comes from; although they have a solid comedy hit under their collective belt (Horrible Bosses), writer / directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein just don't compare to the team of Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters, Caddy Shack) and John Hughes (Ferris Buller, Breakfast Club) working in their heyday.

Saoirse Ronan is a complete fulfilled character and completely will pull you in, but it's the lack of completion in the rest of the cast that makes this film not hard hitting enough.

It's a terrific film, full of heart and really emotionally hard - hitting moments.

Pitting the value of soft entertainment pieces against gritty, hard - hitting stories, the film also addresses the changing dynamics of broadcast news.

Like the main character, the movie is at its most comfortable when it's hitting things hard with a big hammer, and the film's final battle doesn't disappoint, as it mixes the playfulness, action and derring - do that made the everything leading up to it worth the trip.

There is much to think about and process in one viewing, as the struggle of surviving here evokes other recent hard - hitting films like Moonlight, the similarly Orlando motel - set 99 Homes, and American Honey.

This is a hard - hitting horror film that refuses to back down, and is sure to disturb many viewers.

Much like many of its predecessors, its themes about family are obviously stated but here, those lines hit harder considering that this film marks the final onscreen appearance of Paul Walker, who tragically died during production.

Much like many of its predecessors, its themes about family are obviously stated but here, those lines hit harder considering that this film marks the final onscreen appearance of Paul...

Isabel Coixet) Cast: Sophie Turner, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Claire Forlani, Rhys Ifans, Geraldine Chaplin A director that's hard to pin down, Isabel Coixet has moved from Hollywood arthouse movies to European film and back again with ease, and in 2009 she hit Cannes with «Map of the Sounds of Tokyo» which didn't make a big splash.

This exercise in buck - passing could have lent a good deal of character tension to the film; but if your best idea for a hard - hitting piece of accusatory dialogue (Architect to Builder) is «What do they call it when you kill people?»

Spielberg's journalistic thriller takes a screenplay written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer and manages to turn it into a hard - hitting film that ought to make people think twice about what's going on in America.

These films still haven't figured out how to properly handle a villain, as neither Ed Skrein nor Gina Carano (as Ajax and Angel Dust respectively) are given much in terms of motivation and story, except being typical villains who hit hard or fight well.

The dark humor Miike injects into his film hits even harder because Lesson of Evil is actually a tasteless exploitation of American headlines, but one that manages to brutally entertaining and clever.

Skiptrace director Renny Harlin («Die Hard 2,» «5 Days of War») has definitely had considerable experience in helming hit - and - miss actioners during the course of his film - making career.

High - concept in the basest definition of the term, the film would fall apart with a sigh if it weren't held together, however tenuously, by jump - cuts, zooms, slo - mo — the whole kitchen sink of obfuscating choices courtesy an artist trying way too hard to be au courant by imitating a style of film that hasn't been fresh since around the time that Tarantino hit the scene.

For fans though, it's hard not to be disappointed that Spectre — while commendable as a James Bond film — never hits the dramatic high notes that Skyfall did in 2012.

The two stars feature in the hard - hitting Against the Wall film, which Belafonte co-produced for his social group Sankofa.org, which is attempting to help raise awareness about preventable violence.

For what better filmmaker is there to combat the wave of inept filmmaking that the Twilight film series is producing so far (I'm hoping David Slade doesn't hit strike three with Eclipse, if only because I like Hard Candy so much) than Carl Theodor Dreyer, the Danish master who gave us The Passion of Joan of Arc?

It's hardly a surprise to learn that Zanussi co-produced Rose, which nevertheless goes much further and hits much harder than his own film.

As the mother of an out LGBT teen myself, I can say that I'm always grateful when young people can see a film reach a broad collective audience, and not just appeal to the segment of people who want something more hard - hitting.

The film features the actor known for his hard - hitting roles in the likes of WELCOME TO THE PUNCH and and classic Tyneside - set BBC drama series OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH, as a man with the ability to enter the memory of any individual.

The film also contains what Stallone wants on his tombstone: «It ain't about how hard ya hit.

But Andrew Haigh's film hits something harder, and taps into the idea of being young, down - and - out and desperately seeking purpose in a place that seems hellbent on destroying you.

Lucky for us, no matter how gruelling the film gets, in an interview with Asser he reassures us that despite the hard hitting nature of the film there is light at the end of the tunnel, and any violence is non gratuitous (phew!).

These films share a world of sleek surfaces and ostentatious style, fuelled as much by modish electronica and gauche fashion as their narratives» sine wave ripples between glacial inactivity and hard - hitting action.

Dickerson's film may not hit you hard with quotable dialogue or break new ground in storytelling.

Those two films aren't biopics, but they share the insidery, involuted interests of Steve Jobs; the biopics in the «hit» camp (Compton, Black Mass, The Imitation Game and American Sniper) are all much beefier, externalised affairs playing obviously to mass audiences, with even The Imitation Game trying its hardest to be an espionage thriller.

For all its good parts (and there are lots of them), Real Steel perhaps fails because it tries too hard to be more than what it is: a film about giant remote - controlled robots hitting each other.