Sentences with phrase «inferior film»

Making its international premiere in Directors» Fortnight, Debra Granik's acclaimed Sundance title Leave No Trace left many veteran festivalgoers wondering why so many inferior films had managed to leapfrog it into the Official Selection.

Martin Scorsese has had a rum old time of it at the Oscars, forever losing out in the best picture category to vastly inferior films: Raging Bull was beaten by the facile psychotherapy drama Ordinary People, Goodfellas by the narcissistic western Dances With Wolves.

Ripped off by Oliver Stone for U-Turn, a much inferior film.

The results are well worth repeated viewings, and prove that sequels don't necessarily have to be inferior films.

Though it suffers from the slightly washed - out 1980s look caused by the inferior film stocks of the time, the very great British cinematographer, David Watkin («Help,» «The Knack and How to Get It») keeps things from getting too visually stodgy.

While it surely wasn't Lee's intention to make an inferior film to the original, sadly that is exactly what it is.

That said, Legally Blonde is an inferior film in almost every way, save for one important factor: Reese Witherspoon.

The similarities stop there, because in almost every respect, The Recruit is the inferior film.

I think coming off of two inferior films by Scorsese standards (Cape Fear and The Age of Innocence) that cooled off Scorsese's reputation in the eyes of Academy Award voters and Casino was overlooked.