Sentences with phrase «impressive young film»

Her impressive young film career was cut short by the McCarthy Era blacklist.

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That's an impressive feat, given that these aren't Disney, Pixar, or Lego movies, that they're instead indie films that attempt to present sophisticated story lines to young audiences through hand - drawn animation.

The story of a young boy trying to impress a girl with his musical talents may seem old - hat in 2016, but Carney's ability to engage his audience with every bar of a song found within one of his films is ever - present and, as always, impressive.

While the younger cast are impressive, it is the trio of Weaving, Kidman and Fiennes who are the key to the film and all give stellar performances.

The trailers look impressive and have an energy, but first - time director Rupert Sanders falls in love with his own work that all that energy is sucked out of the film like Ravenna sucking the life out of young maidens.

A24, a producer and distributor of independent films, has only been around since 2012, but in just four years, the young company has already managed to establish itself as a potent brand name with a string of impressive releases, including (but not limited to) Room, Obvious Child, Spring Breakers, The End Of The Tour,...

Mud is not the film to break McConaughey's streak of resurgence, adding to the list of impressive titles that includes The Lincoln Lawyer, Bernie, Killer Joe and Magic Mike; however the feature belongs not to his continuing charisma, but to his young leading man.

Tremblay's acting ability is already stellar at his young age and his capability of negotiating certain emotions in this film is far more impressive than seasoned - performers within the ensemble cast.

The fact that he is still chugging away, knocking out a film a year at 74 years old, is indeed impressive, and one frequently marvels at not only the consistent quality of his work, but the relative indifference when he hits pay dirt — i.e., if some young up - and - comer had knocked out a Vicky Cristina Barcelona or Match Point, he or she'd have been hailed as the Second Coming, but when it's Woody, we just chalk it up as an expectation, rate it on a comparative scale to his previous masterworks, and move on.

Aside from an occasionally rough sound mix that is common with young filmmakers, Wright's entry into the Columbus film scene is impressive.

It's an impressive piece of camerawork and seems to imply that the film will takes us into the lives of all the characters we see in passing, rich, poor, young, old alike.

Perhaps that is unfair, because the young actress has amassed an impressive resume since her graduation from standard Disney fare to more challenging roles in films like «Panic Room» (she replaced Hayden Panettiere and in doing so garnering much comparison to that film's lead, Jodie Foster).

She gives a natural performance which we rarely see at such a young age and this holds the whole film together; which is impressive considering the other excellent performances seen from her more experienced colleagues.

But the film was the most impressive demonstration of Young's aesthetic to date (as he told the New York Times, «I'm big on faces.

The film features an impressive young cast (all male, of course) who immerse themselves completely in this harrowing piece of history, and are backed up by recognisable faces such as Shane Bourne and William McInnes (Look Both Ways).

These young adult movies have seen some impressive names step behind the director chair but Maze Runner finds itself as the feature debut of visual effects artist Wes Ball and there's no doubting the fact that this feels like a first - time effort of someone who can't bring the energy required to keep a film's pulse moving.

And with a rapturous A + CinemaScore from younger - skewing audiences (55 percent of those polled were under the age of 25), the film will likely hover at or near the top of the U.S. box office charts for weeks to come — something that critics won't mind, for once, given that the film also sits at an impressive 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

His latest, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, contains many of the elements we've come to expect from the younger McDonagh brother — primarily a dedication to carefully crafted, sometimes acerbic dialogue — crystallised into what is his best and most consistently impressive film.

Easily their equal is young Ashleigh Cummings as the long - suffering Vicki, who spends much of the film chained to a bed, but still does an impressive job of creating a three - dimensional character we grow to care about well beyond the trappings of a basic horror movie victim.

The film features an impressive cast that includes Wannell himself along with The Faculty star Elijah Wood returning to horror in a high school setting in the story of a virus that hits a small Illinois town and turns the young children into deadly little monsters little monsters.

Atmospheric, honest, and cinematic, the film marks an impressive inaugural artistic statement for the young filmmaker.

The young actress was utterly captivating as Hushpuppy, and her performance is all the more impressive when you realize that she essentially carries the entire film.

The very impressive ensemble cast for this film features Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Peña, Zach Galifianakis, Oprah Winfrey, Bellamy Young, Mindy Kaling, Rowan Blanchard, Levi Miller, André Holland, Daniel MacPherson, Will McCormack, Deric McCabe, along with Storm Reid as Meg.

The very impressive, huge ensemble cast for this film features Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon, Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Peña, Zach Galifianakis, Oprah Winfrey, Bellamy Young, Mindy Kaling, Rowan Blanchard, Levi Miller, André Holland, Daniel MacPherson, Will McCormack, Deric McCabe, and Storm Reid as Meg.

Brie Larson With a cast that included Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, among many others, Edgar Wright «s «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World» is looking increasingly like one of those films that provided first looks at an entire generation of young actors, but perhaps none have shown such an impressive range since that film as Brie Larson, who played Scott's ex Envy Adams, a smoky - voiced rock frontwoman.

By far the best is Swoon, an impressive debut feature from the young, independent American film - maker Tom Kalin.

It's Jason Reitman most impressive film since Young Adult, which makes sense.

And, in an echo of that oh - so - memorable film of a few weeks ago, Say It Isn't So, Joe beds a young woman (Jaime Pressly, who between this, Tomcats, and Ringmaster, is building such an impressive resume) who could very well be his sister.

The game's best jokes are often the result of the ways our dynamic duo interacts with these metaphysical beings, and there's an impressive range of them, highlights including Hades, an effete, wise - cracking menace who wouldn't be out of place in a Disney film; Thanatos, the outrageously camp God of Death; Pyrrhon, a thick - as - a-brick Sun God doing the world's best Phil Hartman impersonation; and Viridi, the impetuous young Goddess of Nature.

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