Sentences with phrase «like film critics»

One of the hardest parts of Oscar watching is the inevitable truths that come out every year about the behavior of Academy voters, who are more like your average movie - goer than they are like film critics.

The eyes belong to the seven members of the school's MBA admissions committee who sit, like film critics, to judge the candidate's video performance.

Disney's controversial decision to not screen Star Wars: The Force Awakens for critics is also a topic of conversation as your hosts cry foul and risk sounding like film critic elitists.

Orser — who looks a bit like film critic Peter Travers in this film — is equally as good.

Library displayed book recommendations that it had been soliciting for two years from celebrities like film critic Gene Shalit and golfer Arnold Palmer.

Not exact matches

Even as a film critic, it seemed like a bad idea recommending a film praised by the occult for possibly showcasing a pro-witchcraft message.

That means that bettors would rely solely on word of mouth from critics who attended film festivals like Cannes or Sundance.

Here's what I like, and I don't care what professional film critics say.

I think the critics just like to be negative of any Sandler or Aniston film.

From the film critic's POV, some things never change — like Kingsley's astounding ability to bury his background deep inside his character.

He went on to play wisecracking leading roles in such «B «s as Night of Terror (1933), The Nut Farm (1935) and The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1935); the critics paid no heed to these minor efforts, though they always showered Ford with praise for his supporting roles in films like John Ford's The Informer (1935) and Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an award for its screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.

The Beijing - raised, London - and Mount Holyoke — educated filmmaker shares with the American Honey helmer an interest in young people at the margins, a knack for eliciting fantastic performances from amateur or under - the - radar actors, and what film critic April Wolfe described to me as a «dream - like realism.»

Show Dogs seems like an easy target for critics who take filmed entertainment too seriously.

I can't say I can fully blame the critics, because even though, like I said, I like this film alright, it has more than just some decent, if annoying punk rock classics to give you (Yes, I'm going to say it again) «heebie - jeebies» (There).

A Walk in the Woods shouldn't be criticized for its simplicity, which is what some critics have said about it, because a film like this can't really do much more than it does.

Critics liked every film the 45 - year - old company had to offer in 2013, especially one - of - a-kind documentary Leviathan and the Vienna - set drama Museum Hours.

Although Douglas was again praised for her work — here portraying a Carole King - like singer / songwriter — the film did poorly among critics and at the box office.The actress went on to do a number of made - for - TV films, including the satirical Weapons of Mass Distraction in 1997.

Critics actually like Stewart's performance, but not the film.

Similar shifts characterize most of Fuller's late films as well as his 1980 novel, which veers from quaint in - jokes — such as naming all the French officers after French film critics who championed his earlier movies, including (Luc) Moullet, (Bertrand) Tavernier, and (Henri) Chapier — to terse epigraphs that suggest the dark poetry of someone like Lautreamont:» «Why are you crying?»

Screenings for those film only just began over the Thanksgiving holiday and, like the Critics» Choice Movie Awards group, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, likely didn't have time to screen it or it wasn't screened for them.

We don't want to say anything more — and frankly, the trailer makes it difficult to intuit much, save for some mysterious affliction that seems to render people immobile — but our film critic A.A. Dowd caught the film at Cannes this year and praised it, saying Lanthimos «brings a thunderous, quaking dread to every square inch» of his latest project, like a «twisted slow - burn Cape Fear.»

His latest, Nocturnal Animals, sounds like a real trip, almost like two films in one that, according to critics, calls to mind the works of Douglas Sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, and Sam Peckinpah.

Kubrick fanatics will probably be the most gladdened at the participation of critic and Kubrick: The Definitive Edition author Michel Ciment, who goes full - tilt film studies in his 20 - minute conversation, picking Barry Lyndon apart like a mechanic dismantling an engine to show how it works, and its place of importance within the director's body of work.

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

L.A. Times film critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang share their likes from the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival.

The result is a taut, unrelenting and frequently hilarious horror - satire that's scored a rare 100 % positive rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as raves from hip - hop luminaries like Chance the Rapper, who recently hosted a private screening of the film in Hollywood.

Though he'd built up a strong reputation among critics and cineastes in the 1960s with darker character work in films like Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) and the daring masterpiece Victim (1961), he was best known to the public as Simon Sparrow, the heartthrob comic lead in Doctor in the House (1954) and four subsequent sequels.

Look at «The Hangover», because the first film was so well liked the sequel became an even bigger hit, but because the sequel was considered to be inferior by critics in general, the 3rd film really suffered and paid the price as it came nowhere near the previous films domestic box office grosses.

Considering that Smith claims that he made this film for teen girls, not for one moment does Yoga Hosers feel like anything other than a mid-40s writer / director shaking his fist at a younger phone - desperate generation, making inside jokes for the adults in the audience and lambasting the critics that have wronged him in the past.

Additionally, with all four individual film winners repeating their wins from the Golden Globes and Critics» Choice Awards, it seems like all four of them are locked down for their respective Oscars.

The film critic David Ehrlich has tweeted that the film feels like it wasn't even made by humans, and I'd go further, to say that the movie dehumanizes its leading woman and attempts, disconcertingly, to dehumanize its audience.

It's not a masterpiece, I think the critics were too fair too it, it's by far an over rated ghost flick, but it does so much with so little resources and proves M Night Shymalan knew how to make films before recent lacklusters like The Last Airbender.

People tend to really not like this film (as evidenced by a 34 % approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 24 % from the audience), but I really enjoyed Blackhat.

While the critics are overrating films like «Star Wars: The Last Jedi», «The Shape of Water», «Dunkirk», «Moonlight», and the extremely overrated «La La Land, they turn their noses up at an uplifting, entertaining film like, «The Greatest Showman.»

«a legitimate feminist film critic» You're acting like that is a selling point.

Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions into the highly populated art house distribution crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as art film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).

Like the previous clips and teasers, the latest bit of image for Jonathan Glazer's film adap of the Michel Faber book is short and strange, only this time its got a barrage of pull quotes from critics.

TAMPA, FL — The Florida Film Critics Circle has announced its winners for the best films and cinematic performances of 2017 and the awards were, like last year, pretty fairly spread out among an array of films.

«Toxie,» as he's called by punk bands and pop film critics everywhere, has become so famous since his introduction in 1984 that you can now buy Toxic Avenger action figures, games, Topps trading cards, and even designer jewelry — all this in tribute to a head - crushing killer whose face looks like it's been bashed in with a bag of nickels, impaled with a turkey fork and barbecued on a George Foreman grill.

That's the only way reviews have ever worked for a mainstream audience, be it as part of the captive audience for weekly reviews as part of a newscast, as a column in a popular magazine or newspaper, on its own as in shows like Siskel & Ebert At The Movies, or even in print — Leonard Maltin, another beloved film critic and film historian, established his name writing a book of capsule reviews.

A lover of film and the art of debate, Jason doesn't like to be wrong, which is why he became a movie critic.

Like that film, there will no doubt be a number of critics and members of the audience who view it as a revolting piece of trash.

The film comes in the wake of 2013's heart wrenching Sundance Jury Prize award winner, Blood Brother, a film that seemed to come out of nowhere to wow audiences and critics alike, and apparently even the likes of Terrence Malick and Atticus Ross who came on to Hoover's latest project to executive produce and serve as composer, respectively.

Our critic Bob Mondello said at the time that the film wasn't like the PG - 13 superhero movies that audiences were used to.

Bridging the gap is possible — people need to see more films — which will probably happen with streaming services a growing market — and critics need to stop pretending to like bad films to make themselves seem intelligent.

Critics are somewhat mixed on the film, but the reviews are far more positive than what we read for The Hangover sequels, and they're about on par with the reviews for Phillips» Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and Road Trip, his more well - liked movies.

Like many film critics, I started out to be a mortician, but got sidetracked.

Many of the major critics out there are not just panning the film, but are making it sound like the first major 2011 contender for the Razzies as well.

Jake Howell caught up with Matt Johnson to talk about his life and momentum post-The Dirties, his new project Operation Avalanche, and what it was like to receive the love of Toronto film critics.