Sentences with phrase «hyphenate debut»

Overflowing with subplots and burdened by at least one major character who's superfluous and distracting, Joshua Marston's hyphenate debut is as overstuffed as Maria's digestive tract, but Moreno's performance is so sure - footed and clear that it smoothes over some of the rougher patches of the piece.

It's telling that for a toast, someone recites the last stanza of Matthew Arnold's «Dover Beach» * — telling not for the sentiment of steadfastness in the face of societal unkindness, but for the fact that the poem has already once received a revision (in 1922 as «The Dover Bitch» by Anthony Hecht) and clearly receives another in Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh's very personal hyphenate debut.

by Walter Chaw Duncan Tucker makes his hyphenate debut with Transamerica, one of the first pictures distributed by the Weinsteins under their new aegis.

by Walter Chaw Based on a Kirsty Gunn novel, Christine Jeffs's hyphenate debut Rain is a dulcet, haunting evocation of that moment of crisis in a young woman's life when she's poised on the precipice of sexual maturity.

by Walter Chaw Greta Gerwig's hyphenate debut bears the influence of erstwhile collaborator Noah Baumbach's urbane micro-comedies — Hal Hartley's, too, along with some DNA borrowed from Ghost World and Welcome to the Dollhouse for spice.

Michael Dougherty's hyphenate debut, it, a lot like co-writer-on-X2 Dan Harris's own first feature, Imaginary Heroes, has a pedigree and the benefit of the doubt in its corner but washes out as something that needed to marinate longer to reach the full flower of any potential.

by Walter Chaw Based on an award - winning novel by Andres Dubus III, son of Canadian novelist and short - story writer Andre Dubus, Vadim Perelman's hyphenate debut House of Sand and Fog is difficult to gauge on its own merits, given that the typically invasive grandiosity of another abominable James Horner score sinks the picture almost by itself.

Beginning with an airplane landing and ending with another taking off, Patrick Stettner's sterling feature - length hyphenate debut boasts of a surprising maturity both in terms of its narrative completeness and the consistency of its photographic compositions.

David Duchovny makes his feature - length hyphenate debut with the appropriately - named House of D, a slog through Duchovny's Freudian undercarriage as he casts himself as a goateed Parisian flipbook artist and wife Téa Leoni as his character's mother in flashback — with pre-Duchovny played by a game Anton Yelchin, riding around on a meat wagon in 1973 Greenwich Village, the bitch to Robin Williams's retard bull.

The guy who demanded he be allowed to direct his own screenplays and so made a legendary hyphenate debut with Double Indemnity.

Bride Wars is a crime against women, while Catch and Release, Susannah Grant's hyphenate debut, is a more Catholic breed of misanthropy.

The actor's hyphenate debut, Fiennes's adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus is a curio, to be sure: It isn't so much directed as cobbled together from the source and fed through CNN - style reportage of armed fighting in the Balkans.

by Walter Chaw After cutting his teeth as a director on the Brian Bosworth vehicle One Tough Bastard, Kurt Wimmer proves himself grotesquely unprepared for his hyphenate debut: the futuristic stink-fest Equilibrium, starring Christian Bale, Emily Watson, and Taye Diggs.

Zach Braff's hyphenate debut Garden State seizes on that wilful misreading, offering up a Girl, Interrupted for boys featuring a lead character fresh from The Bell Jar: an over-medicated, under - emoted man who just wants to feel something, damnit.

by Walter Chaw The same kind of movie as Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith but more so, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang marks the hyphenate debut of star screenwriter Shane Black, and it's the kind of movie his Last Action Hero would have been had they aimed it at adults (and cast actors).

Not exact matches

Also cast in a frozen wasteland, hyphenate Courtney Hunt's feature debut Frozen River aspires to the same eloquence in forging a conversation between the interior and exterior worlds, drawing a quick sketch of poverty and solipsism that evolves into a giant campfire hug of teaching the world to sing or some such facile bullshit.

Edgerton is a rather solid filmmaker, but his direction outdoes his writing (more on that later), so it's a mixed bag of a directorial debut for the multi hyphenate.

The exhibition also highlights struggles common among contemporary Muslim queer, trans * and gender non-conforming communities, regardless of locale, including displacement, diaspora, and hyphenated identities,» Bhutto and Ahmed observe of their curatorial debut for The Third Muslim.