Sentences with phrase «in searing dramas»

Liam Neeson cut his teeth performing in searing dramas, but pivoted to Death Wish - style action in his twilight years, having mowed through a variety of gangsters, thugs, and deadbeats in films like Taken, A Walk Among The Tombstones, Taken 2, Non-Stop, and Taken 3.

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The good news is that Snowfall, the searing FX drama about the 1980s crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles, does start moving at dazzling speed after a slow, plodding start.

Like the extraordinary Elizabeth Strout novel - in - stories that it's based on, HBO's Olive Kitteridge accumulates with steady, earned drama into a searing portrait of quiet desperation.

This could have gone horribly awry if left in less capable hands, but writer - director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines) still retains his title as the master of searing, and often hard - to - watch relationship dramas.

Padilha, who shot to prominence with his gritty police crime tale Elite Squad — which won Berlin's Golden Bear in 2007 — will bring his research - based documentary background to bear as he did so successfully in both Elite Squad films, his searing documentary Bus 174 and, of course his brilliant Pablo Escobar Netflix drama Narcos.

The screenplay, by Dani Romain and George F. Walker, vacillates wildly between searing drama and broad comedy, resulting in a distinctly uneven tone that ultimately undermines the more effective elements within the film.

But more importantly, this searing drama is about a family; all the usual rules apply in terms of assuring every actor is on the same page.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

It may have been easy to forget this powerful drama from way back in February, but John Cameron Mitchell's searing adaptation of the Tony Award - winning play Rabbit Hole demands repeat attention.

Star - driven biopics are a dime a dozen in the annual awards race yet Pablo Larrain's searing new drama Jackie stands head and shoulders above the more conventional fare that flood theaters around this time of year.

He parlayed industry buzz into his directorial debut, Wedding in White (1972), a searing rape drama adapted from his own play that would win Best Picture at the 1973 Canadian Film Awards.

Jessica Chastain gives a searing performance in John Madden's drama about a lobbyist who leaves her pro-NRA company behind to help another firm push forward a gun control bill.

Grief is given a hefty workout in Rabbit Hole, a searing drama that charts the parallel paths a married couple take after the death of their only child.

To my knowledge this is the only time that a movie principally in the Tamil language took the gold with ensemble performances principally by non-professional actors, knocking out a searing story that is at once a love story, a social drama, a film noir and a genre film.

A group of nuns - to - be get the schooling of a lifetime in «Novitiate,» a harsh, searing religious drama which revolves around a hellfire performance from a volcanic Melissa Leo.