Sentences with phrase «lesser film»

There's none of that character - talking - to - herself nonsense you see in lesser films that aren't as sure of themselves when it comes to visual storytelling.

Ultimately this is less a film about war and conflict, and more about what war and conflict do to a person, a theme obviously explored before but one that remains hugely interesting.

And by using less film overall, visual packaging manufacturers can reduce their source material usage.

And, by using less film overall, consumer packaging manufacturers can reduce their source material usage.

Meanwhile, a very different British talent, in a far lesser film, merits discussion in the Best Supporting Actor category.

If you miss your seat on the hype train early on, for whatever reason, and to even perhaps a far lesser film, you're pretty much out of luck.

While the plot's creativity does diminish at about the halfway mark and comparisons to lesser films of the genre become more apparent, the R - rated laughs and hilariously despicable misadventures of our gang of inebriated antiheroes maintains a consistent pairing of riotous vulgarities and comical camaraderie in desperation.

Veteran actors often settle for lesser films in their older age, like De Niro, Walken and Michael Caine, yet Stamp is the kind of actor, who only takes a role he truly believes in.

It is much less a film about fashion than a film about an artist with a Roderick Usher - like sensitivity.

While I've long appreciated the steeliness behind Anderson's whimsy in even lesser films like The Life Aquatic, the top - heaviness of the character design sometimes leaves me cold: You look at uniformed Steve Zissou as he tells you about his boat and sense that all you'll ever know about him is right in front of you.

But Annihilation really hits its stride at the point where lesser films jump the shark.

And for every Superbad, there are four or five lesser films like Project X. And sure, occasionally you'll get a high school movie that actually has something to say about the academic and societal pressures of being a student (Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow is a great example), but even that focused primarily on male characters.

Crime in the Streets (1956) is less film noir than stagey social drama, but it's the film debut of John Cassavetes in a twitchy bit of juvenile delinquency on the road to murder.

Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler play the typical romantic comedy couple in this parody which takes aim at films like You've Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally and other lesser films that have become more than predictable.

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There's a little less film on Jackson than most of his peers at the top of the class, but his play in 2017 was so good that there shouldn't be many questions about him.

He's mastered how to reassemble the better elements of (usually) lesser films into an original, engaging narrative that only retains the basic inspiration of some film or another that he admired — e.g. Lady Snowblood (Kill Bill), The Killers (Reservoir Dogs) or the dance scene from Godard's Bande à part (Pulp Fiction).

If you're among the many who can't imagine a world in which you'd pay money to see any film called Death Wish, much less this film called Death Wish, any review of it may seem puzzling, like hiring a sommelier to walk you through the nose, mouthfeel and slyly piquant yet cheekily earthy notes of a bucket of sewage.

Sadly, The Humbling (from the novel by Philip Roth, scripted by Buck Henry and directed by Barry Levinson) went to video on demand, while Manglehorn (directed by David Gordon Green) is still trying to drum up attention at lesser film festivals.

It's as manipulative as it is dishonest, but unlike many other far lesser films worthy of the same description, all this flick's shamelessness is on purpose.

So much more than the protective momma bear that you often see in this kind of film, Davis makes» Amelia's struggle to connect with a child that she loves but may not like very much a palpable thing, while also showing the basic human needs — sexuality, some fucking sleep — that lesser films brush over.

My only gripe is that I wish it had less film debris as I feel the film grain was intended by the director.

Globes voters have certainly picked lesser films here over the years.

Many lesser films spend hours grasping for the same measure of profundity.

Lesser films habitually build characters from plot and thematic needs downwards, here characters seem to act first, without fine definitions of what their actions mean even to each other.

Succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture - it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

Lesser films of the genre and really any movie claiming to carry that attractive «thriller» label would be wise to aspire to such success.

It's less a film about crime and punishment than an occasion for Lanthimos to cycle through the idiosyncratic set of perversities that first grabbed our attention but has been growing staler with each picture.

Less film noir, more slow - mo abattoir.

GS: I feel that Prisoners is a much lesser film.

For «The Weather Man» succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture — it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

Pallet wrapping equipment uses less film, considerably reducing waste.

A lesser film would have opened by loading her with backstory about her royal heritage, her home planet and her ties to the Rebel Alliance (in fact, the lesser prequels committed just such errors with their own characters.)

This narcissistic mockumentary is less a film than a full - length promotional video for Roc - a-Fella Records mogul / director Damon Dash.

In truth, Justice is less a film and more an extended piece of propaganda.

A lesser film would have underscored it with a shock chord, punctuated it with a sudden zoom, or cut to a shocked close up.

Killmonger is the kind of character who, in a lesser film, would have been an easy, rote villain.

Though it's overall a lesser film than its predecessor, at least it's shorter by 20 minutes, still clocking in at about two hours.

It's the combination of character development, action and pure emotion that drives the film, where even secondary characters have motivations; a wonderful moment a lesser film would have cut for time finds the shapeshifting Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) propositioning Wolverine, at first disguising herself as Wolvie's crush, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), then purring, «No one has left scars like you.»

Despite how gripping it truly becomes, some part of me can't help but feel Deepwater Horizon is a lesser film for not considering the sheer scope of the situation.

A lesser film would make the mother - who - lost - a-child protagonist into a victim who's constantly crying or a saint who bravely keeps her head up in spite of it all, but here, Becca is just pissed off.

Long dismissed as a lesser film farce, Christmas in Connecticut has its own irresistible charm, and has in recent years become a perennial Christmas TV attraction.

Watching this play out, you can see where a lesser film would have stopped the action: after Steve agrees to sleep next to Diana, after his flirting falters, after a generic statement about how long it'll take them to reach land.

BBats: What young director (3 or less films) are you most excited about seeing over the next decade?