Sentences with phrase «kind of film entirely»

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A kind of low - level trickster god of indie cinema himself, Waititi lets his film go a little crazy: He's outfitted it with garish colors and costumes and set designs, some not - entirely - perfect special effects, and a synthesized Mark Mothersbaugh score that sounds like it was lifted from an early period Jean - Claude Van Damme flick.

But then The Wrestler on film is much like the real thing — scripted moments come with the territory, but in the right hands the end result can become a different kind of spectacle entirely.

Film critic A.O. Scott, in his New York Times review, somewhat (but not entirely) jokingly referred to this new film as an example of a kind of auteurist cinema, in that the aesthetic clearly reflects the vision of one man, director Michael Bay (who also directed the previous three films).

Held together almost entirely by Cranston's performance, «All the Way» seems at times intentionally counter-intuitive; so much of the story's advancement depends on deals that no one feels really great about that it's hard to find the kind of catharsis many expect from these sorts of films.

Solondz takes a premise that could be some kind of Apatowian studio comedy — overweight man child falls for pixie dream girl — and really gets into his central character's psyche, to the extent that much of the second half of the film is set entirely within it.

Labor Day is almost here and we're deep enough into the calendar year that when a film critic declares a picture to be «light - years the most entertaining movie of the year,» we sit up and take notice — even if the year as a whole has been almost entirely bereft of «entertaining» movies, or, at least, the kind of movies that aspire to merely entertain and not make you dwell on tragedy («Fruitvale Station»), the emptiness of our culture («The Bling Ring») or the struggles that come with aging and evolving with someone you love («Before Midnight»).

The MacGuffin of Night Moves is the same as the microfilm - bearing South American juju from North by Northwest or the bird statue beneath the opening titles of The Maltese Falcon — some kind of clay effigy pregnant with some kind of contraband, representative in 1975 of the extent to which film has been entirely co-opted by the way audience expectations govern movies.

Youth: Youth is annoying as hell, the kind of navel - gazing film that finds great meaning in the ogling of a perfect female body, but there are just enough wonderful moments peppered in there — Rachel Weisz's monologue; the song at the end — to keep you from writing the whole thing off entirely.

It might tip into sentimentality in places, but it's the kind of sentiment that's entirely earned, and few would begrudge it in a film as warm, sweet and beautifully made as this.

This movie has entirely different aims and goals, not to mention that only a film critic would make the asinine assumption that a documentary could have the kind of populist impact Stone was clearly striving for here.

This kind of collaboration with students wasn't entirely new for Professor Sarris, who had already worked with a group of students on Sultan Sharrief's feature - length narrative film

That the film focuses entirely on those elements to garner thrills is a strength, though, and it never resorts to cheap chases, a shadowy witness who uncovers all, or, basically, any kind of shoddy copouts.

Taylor's original choice of composer was Carter Burwell who didn't seem the most natural of choices, so it wasn't entirely a surprise when he departed the project (seemingly not the director's choice, but the studio's); a very capable replacement was hired in the form of Brian Tyler, who also scored the previous film in the franchise, Iron Man 3, and just maybe he will become the «house composer» for this series, which has so far failed to establish any kind of distinctive musical identity.

When: April 8th Why: Despite generating plenty of positive buzz at SXSW and Fantastic Fest, «Hardcore Henry» sounds like the kind of gimmick - driven concept — in this case, an entirely first - person action movie — that would work better as a short film.

Essie Davis» Amelia is so profoundly run down and tired and stressed that she becomes an entirely different kind of sympathetic figure than what is normally expected in films like this.

«Boyhood»: Richard Linklater's masterwork, and a piece of cinema as superb as it is unique, with one boy's step - by - step trek through the years brought to meaningful, beautiful life in a film made up almost entirely of the kinds of real, wrenching and funny scenes other, lesser movies either cut or never include in the first place.

Ronan was entirely the wrong kind of villain for the film; you don't pit a group of jokesters against a self - serious despot, or else you wind up with something as tonally deaf as, well, a dance - off with a character who could destroy entire worlds.

Ronan was entirely the wrong kind of villain for the film; you don't pit a group of jokesters against a self - serious despot, or else you wind up with something as tonally deaf as, well, a

I remember being kind of vicariously embarrassed at the trailer for Indie Game Movie a film trying to document this emerging phenomenon, but which was pretty much entirely populated by 20 - something white dudes.

Inspired by a recent scientific study that revealed how the jewellike beetle uses the Milky Way for nocturnal orientation, Thater developed an entirely new kind of film and video installation to ponder the vastness of the universe and to convey aesthetically the sublime aspects of the cosmic imagination.