Sentences with phrase «lesser movie»

The movie is a tremendous accomplishment, especially considering that the cast had never seen cameras before — much less movies — yet still agreed to star in the drama.

Again, less movies makes these choices so much easier.

There's never that scene we are accustomed to seeing in lesser movies, where there's a sad score in the background when we are shown tearjerking material.

Hollywood, beset by scandal in 2017, wouldn't mind backing a movie about the power of the free press as a sideswipe at an unpopular president, much less a movie about the power of the free press that might be the most feminist film Spielberg has ever made.

(1945), as well as lesser movies such as Weird Woman (1944).

Alicia Vikander makes for a scrappy, spunky Lara Croft, even if the overall concept remains less a movie and more of an exercise routine.

The Company Men frustrates more than lesser movies because it tackles a timely real topic like an insincere Hallmark sympathy card and isn't even as effective as that would be at relieving the pains of crisis.

The studios lob the blockbusters into the choice summer weekends, and lesser movies scatter out of the way.

Technically, True Grit is less a movie remake than a second try at filming the wonderful Charles Portis source novel, but the irony here is that the Coens» Ladykillers is a more ambitious, clever concept for a film than their admittedly beautiful western.

Like The Sessions, the fimmakers really treat their subject with respect and maturity, at the same time throwing us a few curveballs that will intrigue the more alert of us, and confuse lesser movie addicts

It's the film's universal truths — among them the constant splintering and rebuilding of familial relations, the open road as an open - ended metaphor, and the need for continued purpose and relevancy as one grows older — that makes this six - time Oscar nominee (including a Best Picture nod) less a movie involving a specific state and more a film evoking a specific state of mind.

We see a lot of things from better movies like «Bachelor Party» and «Wedding Crashers,» and fortunately stuff we don't really remember from lesser movies like «The Five - Year Engagement.»

Johnson has been a lot of lesser movies, but he has never been the problem with them, in fact, often coming across as the one reason to stick around.

Less a movie about the inner workings of politics than a biography, Citizen Kane is a portrait of the kind of American icon who seeks power in all the arenas of American life — through wealth, fame, the voice of the media and the votes of the public.

We may be in the minority on this, considering the warm reception that has greeted the film at festival screenings, but The Disaster Artist struck us as less a movie than an over-extended Funny Or Die skit packed with celebrity cameos — which is to say, it makes little sense if you haven't already seen The Room.

Afros like the one Zazie Beetz sports as Domino, were, for a long time, considered rather radical as a style choice, and you'd be hard pressed to find an office worker with one, much less a movie or TV character who wasn't supposed to be, well, a political radical.

A lesser movie would make Laura a mere antagonist, a reprobate who won't leave behind her sinful bigotry and embrace the good news of gay rights.

While Part Four is sort of like a movie with no ideas of its own, Part Three is less a movie than an unwieldy pile of mismatched ideas that never fit together.

Less a movie than a sadomasochistic plot party where every conceivable contrivance of teenage woe is asphyxiated to the brink of orgasm and then abandoned to gasp for air and soothe its throbbing vitals.

It's less a movie than a collection of morbid symptoms: a labored, arrhythmic narrative; a pathetic dependency on recycled themes and borrowed images; a sour, self - mocking humor that suggests the end is near.

A lesser movie compared to its 1998 predecessor, this sequel nonetheless delivers the sort of stirring drama and sweeping spectacle its subject demands.

Comes to seem less a movie than a memory of movies — or, at worst, a commercial Frankenstein's monster, sewn together to fill a perceived gap in the market.

I really hope that the buzz for this film picks up and the guy goes on to do more movies like this one and The Spectacular Now and less movies that involved teenage cliches and partying.

Yesterday I am watching more a less a movie about a child and today its old men.

In a lesser movie, Plemons» ingeniously off - putting performance would handily steal the show, but in «Game Night,» it's just one of many great turns; Bateman's patented slow - burn plays well off McAdams» upbeat charm (when holding bad guys at gunpoint, she forces them into Child's Pose), while Magnussen's inspired idiocy perpetually finds new depths.

While a lesser movie would have addressed this conflict by simply arguing that isolationism is wrong, «Black Panther» recognizes that the alternatives are not necessarily better.

In Scott's lesser movies, he uses the visuals as a crutch, covering up the shortcomings.

Deschanelâ $ ™ s instincts seem those of the commercially astute still - photographer, and one consequence of this is that The Black Stallion is less a movie than a huge coffeetable book full of cutely composed shots of rock formations, dripping leaves, sun - drenched beaches, galloping horses, and children in â $ œsensitiveâ $ poses.

In a lesser movie, there would be humid goings - on at the camp, and a spectacular showdown between the humans and special effects.

Much like its predecessor, Deadpool 2 is less a movie than a smirky, feature - length meme generator.

is less a movie than a smirky, feature - length meme generator.

All of this is sensational in a way that catches and retains the public's morbid curiosity and obsession, and a lesser movie on this subject might have tried to appeal to those sensibilities.

A lesser movie or at least one less interesting would have the focus on the direct connections between Thomas and WCKD and what it means for him to be attacking them.

A lesser movie would attempt to set the two precocious protagonists on a grown - up path, or alternatively posit the characters» callow smarts as an enlightened state of mind for all to aspire to.

Under his stewardship, Birdman is less a movie than a kind of grand magic trick, designed to dazzle and delight and make the audience feel exceptionally clever, but not to hold up to too much scrutiny.

Less a movie than a set - up for next year's epic conclusion.

I would go with «The Patriot,» a lesser movie, but more iconic about S.C.

A lesser movie would have been preoccupied by the audition, the missing child, the health crisis, the unexpected injury.

Embracing the depravity of Irvine's text, this is less a movie and more a relentless string of repulsive things being shoved in your face — and James McAvoy dives right in.

TV - trained Freaks and Geeks auteur Danny Leiner's feature debut is less a movie than a series of randomly connected scenes that happen to fall next to each other.

Rather than plead for mercy from the universe, she simply plows forward during what would be three personal - world - crumbling events in a lesser movie: her husband cheats and leaves her, her mother dies, and she is fired (or at least forced to move off her method) from the job she loves.

It's less a movie than an intriguing exercise in making a feature - length shootout.

Performances can make a lesser movie seem better than it is, but material like this can not be saved, no matter how funny some performances are.

Also, there are situations that come up that, in a lesser movie, would lead to very unrealistic blow - ups between people, but here, they end with a reasonable conversation — nice touch.

He even attempts to seduce Harry's wife, and in a lesser movie, she may have gone for it, simply to create conflict.

That basic boy - and - his - dog story anchors the film even as the writer - director unleashes a whirlwind of subplots and side trips that would topple a lesser movie.

It's a lesser movie than the featured attraction, but it's great fun nonetheless.