Sentences with phrase «like paul»

It was almost like Paul Weitz was torn between trying to stay realistic and trying to run with it.

Like Paul Muni back in the 1930s, Tom Hanks relies too much on make - up to convince an audience of his acting skills.

First, it's nice to see a director like Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein, Wicker Park) matched with a project that clearly suits his sensibilities instead of just handling «for hire» projects.

Even lighter fare like Paul Feig's Ghostbusters spent time dutifully paying homage to its predecessor and, in its post-credits scene, setting up a sequel seemingly intended to further remake that predecessor.

But like Paul Schrader said in the movie, there were conversations people were having in general.

An uncompromising adaptation of a novel that might have benefited from a multifloor rehab, Ben Wheatley's ferociously literal take on J.G. Ballard's teetering 1975 social satire is, like Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, an exquisite testament to cinema's capacity to serve the written page.

But here's the rub: Seattle - based writer / director Lynn Shelton's opening premise — like Paul's new - found knack for curing temporomandibular joint dysfunction — degenerates from intriguing to banal by film's end.

How do you cut someone like Paul Rudd out of a movie like Paul Feig's Bridesmaids?

This Halloween knockoff is fairly forgettable, even by slasher flick standards, but it does feature some early work from character actors like Paul Gleason (The Breakfast Club) and James Rebhorn (Carlito's Way), plus it offers the silver screen debut of Mr. Tom Hanks, here playing (what else?)

Movie review: Like all Paul Thomas Anderson movies, «Phantom Thread» is both strange and mesmerizing.

Famous friends (like Paul Giamatti, Stephen Colbert and Nick Kroll) turn up to help her dispense bad advice in a variety of situations.

For three seasons, this sitcom has been one of the most dependable Thursday night dates on television, delivering consistent laughs with an ensemble cast that is basically the Monsters of Improv Comedy (including heavy - hitters like Paul Scheer, Nick Kroll and Jason Mantzoukas, alongside tasty guest stars like Rob Huebel and Will Forte).

Looks like Paul Haggis and Russell Crowe aren't going to revive»80s TV show The Equalizer, after all.

It's like Paul Schrader's «Hardcore,» with much lower stakes or conflict.

Such filmmaking's near - spiritual devotion to landscape can occasionally swallow human players, but while big names (for this director, at least) like Paul Dano and Shirley Henderson feel a tad lost in the mix, Reichardt once more brings out the very best in Williams.

So characters who might make an impact — like Paul Bettany's Charlie Richardson — pop up and disappear.

With his beard, Chris Evans feels more like Paul Bunyan than Captain America in his limited appearance.

So it was miserable, but it was really fun because they were cool people, like Paul Scheer and Elisabeth Shue and Jerry O'Connell.

You expect the racism so characters like Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons in an atypical nasty role) barely register.

I do look at filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson and James Gray as model careers, as careers I aspire to have.

The domestic scenes, where Cage surrounded by comedians like Paul Scheer and Will Sasso as his mates, and where he gets all Zero Dark Flirty with McLendon - Covey, are far more interesting than the foreign ones, where a riff - laden cameo by Rainn Wilson sums up the more scattershot approach.

This re-remake is nothing like the Paul W.S. Anderson film, but more like Mike Judge's Idiocracy, only featuring goofy characters, bizarre action and tons of CGI.

I like Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, so I'd check it out on their talents alone.

Likewise, Ildiko Enyedi's win out of Berlin for On Body and Soul, Wang Bing's win for Mrs. Fang out of Locarno, and even Guillermo Del Toro's Venice win for The Shape of Water (despite something like Paul Schrader's First Reformed being the more daring title) suggest a move away from juries simply awarding whatever had the most topical, well - meaning message.

The Master almost feels like Paul Thomas Anderson's statement of intent in response to the popular approval of his previous film.

Like Paul Walker's character in it, Running Scared is a lot smarter than it looks.

Can someone like Paul Greengrass or David O. Russell pull an upset?

Funnyman Jason Segel on pals like Paul Rudd playing movie superheroes.

Like Paul Greengrass's United 93, whose purpose was to stylishly simulate rather than make sense of the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11, The Impossible uses the tropes of countless horror films and thrillers before it to craft a this - is - what - it - was - like theme - park attraction.

Few people in Hollywood have a pedigree like Paul Schrader.

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Collapsing into a series of depressed vignettes paced and posed like a Paul Thomas Anderson film scored by Coldplay and Simon & Garfunkel, Garden State has a pleasing slickness about it while collecting debts, too, to Wes Anderson and Doug Liman.

The young boy does things only a child in the movies would ever do, here listening to 70s music like Paul Simon or a the Best of Bread compilation, in addition to knowing all about the politics of the era.

A music video about opening doors becomes mesmerising when in the hands of a director like Paul Thomas Anderson and the music of Radiohead.

You may not be able to make a movie like Paul Thomas Anderson can, but chances are very likely you are using streaming platforms just like the «Phantom Thread» and «There Will Be Blood» director.

I think the reason it's so jarring is that the Close - Up wasn't designed for actors like Paul Dano.

The goofy, off - kilter riff on LA sleaze fits within a genre highlighted by better films like Paul Thomas Anderson's Thomas Pinchon adaptation, The Coen's The Big Lebowski or Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (Renny Harlin's The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, too, but whether that was superior is a maybe).

But like the Paul Simon song it pulls its title from, you've heard it too many times before and the ardour just isn't there.

This is one of those sprawling urban tales — like Paul Haggis» Crash or Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland — with big ensemble casts playing characters whose lives intersect in surprising ways.

New York magazine's David Edelstein said, «Everybody doesn't like somebody, but nobody doesn't like Paul Rudd.»

Like Paul Verhoeven's great movie satires, Edge of Tomorrow works because it is first and foremost a brilliant example of the very form it seeks to satirise.

Altman's masterpiece influenced other films with similar interweaving narratives like Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.

I just can't seem to get that interested in this film, especially b / c I just don't like Paul Giamatti all that much.

And he looks a lot like Paul Bettany with the glowing Mind Stone still visible in the middle of his forehead.

Recently, I was sent something that had so many incarnations that the original had someone like Paul Newman attached to it.»

: Miami basically plays like a longer, more raunchy episode of the show, with some additional budget allotted for more explosions, gunfire, and a few star appearances from actors like Paul Rudd (The OH in Ohio, The 40 - Year - Old Virgin) and The Rock (Gridiron Gang).

The film also has some great random casting with established stars like Paul Rudd, William Baldwin and Jonah Hill taking small cameo roles and making their characters so quirky that they're not the stock supporting cast members you'd typically expect.

«Morgan» features veteran talents like Paul Giamatti, Ridley Scott as producer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and a script that made 2014's Blacklist (a list of the best unproduced scripts currently floating around Hollywood).

Critic Consensus: It's decidedly uneven, but like Paul Rudd's performance in the title role, Our Idiot Brother is too charming to resist.

Bloated soft rock, cheesy soft soul / funk, laughable seventies goofballs, terrible lyrics, organ solos... if any other artist had done this (or, say, any of the feature artists like Paul Williams, the guy who wrote that Mupppets song) had come out with this album, it would have been ignored, or savaged.