Sentences with phrase «issue movie»

A social issue movie disguised as a paint - by - numbers crime thriller, «Snitch» is reportedly based on a true story, but the events have been so distorted that hardly any details from the original news story remain.

Working from a script by John Ridley (Red Tails, U Turn), who adapts Northup's own incredible memoir published in 1853, McQueen creates a powerful effect by not making the film «epic» or by proclaiming itself an «pretentiously important issues movie», but by keeping the emphasis on the characters and their individual stories much more so than as a film meant to cover the topic of slavery as a whole.

Later, Dev Patel takes over the role of Saroo, and it's a jarring transition, not only because the little boy is now a man, but because the lyrical nature of the film transforms into a standard «issue movie with stars» kind of thing.

I feel sorry if whoever would go see The Hot Chick or National Security happened to have wandered into Solaris — years of brain rot at the movies would have left them unprepared for the philosophical issues this movie addresses.

And giving Murphy and Stiller one last emotional beat together — whether it was a warm buddy - buddy moment or an uneasy truce — would also have allowed Ratner to explore some of the race and class issues his movie only begins to touch on.

Last month, Criterion issued the movie on Blu - ray Disc.

With his crowd - funded 2014 indie sleeper, Blue Ruin, writer - director Jeremy Saulnier crafted a revenge story that didn't romanticize vengeance, highlighted by several messy showdowns between believable characters — real - seeming people, not standard - issue movie killers.

Three Billboards steps away from Issue Movie designations, and then keeps on side - stepping, into moments — Mildred's stinging last memory of her daughter; Dixon's unlikely stumble toward a gnarled version of decency; any number of unexpected blood splatters — that plenty of viewers will find discomfiting for any number of reasons.

I've been waiting my whole life to see one movie about same - sex first love that was not, on some level, about othering, ostracism, or the oppression of homophobia — a love story that isn't also a de facto issue movie.

Before Will Smith busts blocks as Suicide Squads Deadshot, his gaze finds another target: a true - life issues movie about the crusading doctor who exposed the reasons behind high cases of suicide and early - onset dementia among American footie players.

There were graver, larger issues these movies wanted to be about.

Before we get to the highs, however, it's our duty (okay, our petty pleasure) to dispense with the lows: Like the artist responsible for our favorite album of the year, we've got a bone to pick, and it's with every execrable entry on the list below — a hall of shame wide enough to accommodate horror hackworks, witless studio comedies, tone - deaf social issue movies, and not one but two «unconventional» Katherine Heigl vehicles.

Since he doubles as a director and he's an Oscar - winner for self - important issue movies, he can't help but slip some of his pet messages into the narrative.

But the issues the movie, by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, brings up are worth exploring, especially since so few of us do: Do we really know what we're doing when we're looking for love?

Soapy, sappy, silly and sluggish, La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) is one of those issue movies that wants to cram every hot topic it can think of into a melodramatic situation.

But this is Teller and Woodley's show, and the chemistry between them lifts the film above and beyond the normal troubled - youngsters - humpin» - and - boozin» social - issue movie.

This thoughtful and complex drama tackles a big subject without ever becoming an issue movie.

But she cautions that «Cake» is not principally an issue movie.

There is something so progressive about that, and it still doesn't feel like an «issues movie.»

Though not an «issue movie» per se, Miss Bala suggests the sheer brazenness of cartels that can operate freely and openly, and the ordinary citizens who wriggle under their thumbs.

Better than it should be for Thornton's remarkable ability to convey confusion and discomfort, The Badge is more an Issue movie than a whodunit — and like most movies erring on the liberal side, its strengths don't have a chance against the sloppiness of that bleeding heart on its sleeve.

Yet Payne, as he did in his political satire «Election» or abortion - issue movie «Citizen Ruth,» smartly makes sure the movie resonates on a character level.

This is an issue movie that deals very directly — at times extremely bluntly — with the subject of political discord.

If not the primo prestige film it wants to be, «The Danish Girl» is a strong rebuttal to Hooper's critics and an above average social issues movie.