Sentences with phrase «in films of this ilk»

This is also down to a strong set of performers and while it's rare to see an all - female ensemble in a film of this ilk, Garland has little time for gender, imagining a future where such distinctions don't warrant recognition.

Not exact matches

While I can certainly agree with both films not falling squarely in line with the zombies, slashers, and extreme gore features that proudly wave their horror flags, Get Out and The Shape of Water do exist in the peripherals of genre, both featuring monsters of very different ilk.

As in so many films of its ilk, we observe as the improbable wads of cash are amassed and then, at the point where things just get a little too loco, everything goes to shit.

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Kosinski's leisurely pacing, often setting up a hangout environment similar to those in the more laidback work of Hawks and Richard Linklater, gives Only the Brave a raw authenticity that's often overshadowed by melodramatic flourishes or superhuman heroics in other films of its ilk.

Along with its Rambo pedigree, Homefront definitely feels like a film that would have been par for the course as a release in the 1980s, when Stallone himself, along with Arnie, Chuck Norris, Van Damme, and the rest of the Expendables ilk, would all make films with this very basic formula.

Not that the film doesn't revel in cheesiness, but compared to other films of its ilk, it manages to at least avoid drowning in the cheese.

Although we've seen many films of similar ilk in science fiction, from Sphere to Event Horizon, the writers are well aware of audience expectations, putting enough fog and mirrors in the mix so that we are never exactly sure.

Good performances by the main actors does make it a cut above most horror films if its ilk (though Joe Anderson's German accent is far from authentic), and there is a very effective creep factor involved in the choice of antagonist, a wildly growing, mimicking plant that can grab, infest and devour its victims in the most grisly and stomach churning ways possible.

But much like Babe or even the Shiloh films, a decently made film of this ilk will surprise grown - ups in how successfully they can transfix their target audience.

Most films of its ilk would establish the third wheel character of the current husband as a lout deserving of a break - up, and while Ira is certainly a cad, Simon wisely never paints the character in a negative light, creating some interesting conflicts in the dynamic of the newly reunited partners in crime.

Originally titled Townies, this is a film where all of the themes are in some way, shape or form recycled from comedies of an Apatow ilk.

It's similar to a lot of other films of different ilk, and many may find some striking similarities with Point Break in particular, and that's dipping pretty deep in the bad action movie barrel for inspiration.

Say what you will the R - rated superhero flick — like for instance that it falls in line with many of the same familiar tropes it purports to mock — but the gleefully violent and «adult» - oriented box office smash opened the flood gates for more of its R - rated ilk, showing studios through the ever influential power of green (not Green Lantern mind you), that audiences were more than receptive to «mature» content in their superhero films.

It's also a derivative one, adding nothing to the «madness» ilk of genre films that we have haven't seen done better in movies like Repulsion, The Shining and Black Swan.

Standing in the shadows of other supernatural horror films of this ilk, «Winchester» is a creaky misfire with little going for it beyond window dressing.

The subject matter is darker than other similar films of its ilk, dealing with gang rapes, strangulation and kinky sexual acts that seem placed in the film in ways that titillate rather than educate.

Where this film lacks in comparison to his other earlier films of a similar ilk is it is missing that gut punch moment, that moment that forces you to make a judgment on the character (a really good example of this is Jason Patric «s nausea - inducing takedown of Catherine Keener «s character in Your Friends and Neighbors).

There is the element of power and control which appears in other fantasy films of this ilk, but also a question of the ethics of its use.

I do think kids will enjoy this, and parents will probably be more engaged with the film than some of the other recent releases of a similar ilk in the past year, but this is not a knockout by any means, not even close.