Sentences with phrase «in brilliant»

Film scholar Gilberto Perez, in his brilliant work The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium, expresses as well as anyone I've read the physical experience of watching a film on screen: The...

Special kudos go to Will Arnett as the «boss» who is constantly sucking on a big drink in a brilliant parody of the current «TMZ» television show.

This is something we've seen before — in the brilliant but canceled Nowhere Man, the man goes to a restaurant washroom and returns to his table to find another man carrying on a conversation with his wife — and claiming to be him.

In the brilliant Mistress America, which begins on the first day of freshman year as Tracy (Lola Kirke) moves into her Barnard dorm, academia is a place where kids are so worried about what they should become that they hardly have time to be themselves.

In a brilliant move, the story focuses on a period of just a few months in 1965, rather than tackling the MLK legacy.

I've gone on and on about it over the years, so I'm keeping it brief here, but I do think that the writers have turned in another brilliant script, so before you see their new work this weekend, it pays to revisit this one...

Gael García Bernal takes down a dictator with glossy TV advertising in this brilliant Chilean satire.

This year it bows on Blu - ray in a brilliant new master.

His first big role, aged 17, was opposite Brian Cox in the brilliant, slippery paedophile drama L.I.E..

An incident during one of the circus» shows leads to a encounter between the young clown and an eccentric medical student named Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy), who quickly recognizes a kindred spirit in the brilliant, but abused, nameless clown and soon after rescues him from his old life.

There was an outcry when the Baftas — the British equivalent of the Oscars — failed to award Charlotte Rampling a Best Actress nomination for her stunning performance in the brilliant British marriage drama «45 Years».

Michael Shannon leads the charge in this brilliant genre - defying adventure involving a boy with a special gift that makes him the target of both a government manhunt and a religious cult convinced that the end of days is nigh.

In a brilliant moment, their eldest son, wastoid Scooby (Mark Webber), offers: «So, what you're saying is that if it wasn't for Hitler, I wouldn't have been born.»

Anyway, our climatologist hero's son (Jake Gyllenhaal, who was excellent in the brilliant Donnie Darko) is stuck in the New York public library and a lot of the film is concerned with his efforts to rescue him.

«I'm not running, I'm choosing,» claims Alike (Adepero Oduye in a brilliant performance) a 17 - year - old African - American who comes to embrace her sexuality in Pariah.

He allows the characters to develop on screen at their own pace... and this time the pace is excruciatingly slow — in a brilliant, yet painful to watch manner.

Butler has signed on to replace Eric Bana in Brilliant, a thriller about «a small - time criminal who partners with a female thief to pull off a daring diamond heist.»

Great set - pieces, daft speeches, and Samuel L. Jackson in a brilliant moment when... nah, I can't do it.

In a brilliant critique of Three Billboards in BuzzFeed's Reader, Alison Willmore articulates the elephant in the room: «It forces you, as a viewer, to decide whether its desultory treatment of the black characters on the movie's sidelines is worth tolerating in exchange for the satisfaction of its protagonist's burn - it - all - to - the - ground fury.»

The Festival Gala is Ben Wheatley's HIGH - RISE starring Tom Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, a man who has just taken ownership of a luxurious apartment in this brilliant satire based on JG Ballard's classic novel.

The great Allison Janney plays a blinder as the world's worst mammy in the brilliant I, Tonya.

From Ben romping through a supermarket liquor section in the brilliant first shot to his hyper - dramatic, gross overtures to random women, assorted humiliations, and the brutal, bluntly sexual and heartbreaking final scene with Shue, Cage shows us both the temporary fun of drunkenness and that his grief - destroyed ex-family man is suffering from a gruesome illness.

Enthralled home audiences were treated to entertainment of the highest order — singing, dancing, hilarious comedy and Jackie at his very best as Ralph Kramden and on stage with all his famous friends — Milton Berle, Red Buttons, George Carlin, Nipsey Russell, Phil Silvers and more — and all in brilliant color.

Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time in the U.S.. From his debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.

He is a negotiator as he was in the brilliant TV episodes, so adept that even the bad guys in the Middle East insisted that they would talk only to him to arrange an exchange of prisoners.

It is a dizzy, generic dazzling and deliberate story of decadence and the movie brings F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel to life in a brilliant fashion.

Intelligent and sober, the movie gives way to a grand passion, in a brilliant English - language debut for Chilean director Sebastian Lelio («Gloria,» «A Fantastic Woman»).

Collin Souter, our contributor who analyzes short films every month in his brilliant «Short Films in Focus» column, goes through dozens of short films every year to produce two of the best short film programs you could possibly see in the city of Chicago.

Today in Brilliant: FILM CRIT HULK!

THE DVD Fox DVD presents Fathom in a brilliant 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer long on vibrancy and short on edge enhancement.

In a brilliant stroke of casting, British comedy star Peter Serafinowicz was tapped to play the titular superhero.

In his brilliant and haunting first feature, he tells the story of a vicious young serial killer and his impassive underage girlfriend, both perfectly rendered by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

It's all about physics, and while things start out relatively simple it escalates in a brilliant fashion towards complex and rewarding puzzles — but without becoming frustrating.

Mathew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon star in this brilliant satirical comedy, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best adapted screenplay.

Director Jason Reitman's TULLY is the kind of film that engages with its audience in brilliant ways, dealing only in universal truths and genuine, heartfelt honesty.

In a brilliant move, and one which should even turn the heads of naysayers, Lawrence Kasdan has been brought back to the STAR WARS franchise as a writer and producer.

Beautifully conceived and confusingly distributed, Bone Tomahawk features this year's most gruesome kill, housed in a brilliant, weird - western conceit involving cannibalistic troglodytes and a hunting party led by Kurt Russell.

Except, of course, in the brilliant, bird's - eye opening shot, which is one of the great, funny, paranoid curtain - raisers of recent years — and I'd say the best movie soccer scene of all time.

Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012) Focussing on the fight to pass the 13th amendment outlawing slavery, Lincoln, in the brilliant performance by Daniel Day - Lewis, illuminates the man and the qualities of his leadership that carried the nation through a devastating civil war.

Colin Farrell must get hitched or die tryin» in this brilliant, bizarre social satire costarring Rachel Weisz

The Philadelphia Eagles have won their first Super Bowl title in a brilliant, enthralling game in Minneapolis

In a brilliant stroke of writer Joan Tewkesbury's pen, we never meet the candidate.

A prominent Chicago stage actress, she has also starred Off Broadway in THE ROAD at Lincoln Center, and originated the role of Susannah De Luce in BRILLIANT TRACES at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York's West Village.

Booth is perhaps most recognizable as Glenn Close's son in the brilliant TV show «Damages.»

Paul Newman and Robert Redford shine together in this brilliant and hugely amusing caper film that offers us, among many notable qualities, a marvelous production design and an ingenious (and unpredictable) plot that plays like a refined sleight - of - hand trick.

This is actually even clearer when observing the typical Coen brothers theme, which is finding the humor in the darkest situation (this was proven indefinitely in the brilliant Fargo).

Even if the radiant humor occasionally tends a bit toward the local, as in the brilliant season opening involving members of the DSNY, the point of view is so effortlessly relatable in its humble assertions.

Though slightly intimidated by the sermon delivered by Father Mapple (Orson Welles in a brilliant one - take cameo), who warns that those who challenge the sea are in danger of losing their souls, Ishmael nonetheless signs on to the Pequod, a whaling ship captained by the brooding, one - legged Ahab (Gregory Peck).

In the brilliant Office, Brent quipped that Alton Towers was his biggest disappointment.

The result is a rich experience for any audience: a story of family and culture, death and transcendence, all set to vibrant Latin music — including a new song by Oscar winners Kristen Anderson - Lopez and Robert Lopez («Frozen»)-- and awash in the brilliant colors and dazzling designs the imaginative talents at Disney and Pixar are known for.