Sentences with phrase «lovable films»

Easily one of the most memorable / lovable films of the year.

An endearing and lovable film in spite of the fact that it practically drips sap.

Or it could be that, for all its weirdness, Phantom Thread is Anderson's most accessible, most easily lovable film in years.

It seemed impossible that a relatively weak but lovable film could actually win against those majestic films.

It's a deeply lovable film, satisfying, nourishing and accessible, and bar the odd stumble toward melodrama (more on that later) we were completely immersed in its plain - spoken yet impossibly resonant rhythms practically from the first frame.

As Jessica Kiang said in her review, «it's a deeply lovable film, satisfying, nourishing and accessible, and we were completely immersed in its plain - spoken yet impossibly resonant rhythms.»

Not exact matches

At the same time, the film harks back to Disney's first - ever fairy - tale feature, 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its story of a princess in disguise living hidden in a forest; a villainess with access to supernatural powers; a supporting cast of lovable eccentrics; frolicking animal friends; and a handsome prince who awakens the heroine from a deathlike sleep with love's first kiss.

For children it provides goofy, lovable characters and childish potty humor, while for adults it also offers meta jokes about modern society or of the film itself.

In the film American Wedding, lovable and eccentric Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) have decided to tie the knot following their college graduation.

Steven Spielberg was one of the producers of this film, and knowing of the research he put into making E. T. lovable, I wonder if screen - testing was used to help design Atom.

It's the whimsy and mix of lovable characters that make this animated family film from Belgium a winner, especially for the youngsters, who will giggle and warm to the colourful visuals

This film brings an extremely heartfelt story, a lovable cast, and tender dialogue that would make someone of any age smile.

This film is lovable, it symbolises hope and enlightenment, it is uplifting, it is funny, it has an AMAZING cast (Bill Murray plays it so well), but most of all, being a comedy, it manages to pull this all off without reverting to slapstick, tired and forced punchlines and predictability.

The film stars: Emma Watson as Belle; Dan Stevens as the Beast; Luke Evans as Gaston, the handsome, but shallow villager who woos Belle; Oscar (R) winner Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle's eccentric, but lovable father; Josh Gad as Lefou, Gaston's long - suffering aide - de-camp; Golden Globe (R) nominee Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, the candelabra; Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the harpsichord; Oscar nominee Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the mantel clock; and two - time Academy Award (R) winner Emma Thompson as the teapot, Mrs. Potts.

All the voice talent from the first film — including Jack Black and Angelina Jolie — are back to lend persona to the lovable heroes, but in the sequel they serve more as background to the repetitive chase and fight sequences.

This film has it all; great but simplistic story, lovable and memorable characters, beautiful animation that still stuns me upon viewing.

Randy Quaid has played lovable moocher «Cousin Eddie» in four separate National Lampoon films, but his most famous performance still resides at yuletide.

The 2005 ABC telemovie The Muppets» Wizard of Oz is considered the rock - bottom that Jim Henson's lovable characters hit before being restored to glory in 2011's winning film.

That's when he recruits a ragtag band of militiamen — a supposedly hearty, lovable bunch, the equivalent of the scruffy fun - loving techies found in sci - fi action films.

Bill Skarsgard brought a wonderfully threatening physicality to Pennywise, making it feel as if he could rip the Losers Club kids to shreds at any time, but the film's best moments echo the ones from the book: spending time with a lovable group of misfits and being along for the ride as their bonds strengthen in the face of unimaginable terror.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

For families who have enjoyed the animator's earlier short films featuring the lovable team of Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run will be a delight to watch.

His films, from Waterworld to Dances with Wolves to The Postman, are lovable for their complete lack of irony and self - reflection.

Directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Alex Ross Perry and Allison Schroeder, the film follows the now - adult Christopher Robin, who has lost his way, and now must rely on his childhood friends of lovable stuffed animals to reconnect him of the loving and playful boy who is still inside, after embarking on countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood.

There's plenty going on in this character beneath the surface, and while the film may take predictable avenues in getting to those places, Field conveys it all with such an honesty that it's impossible not to fall for this endlessly lovable woman.

This doesn't stop me from liking much of what I saw during this two hours and forty - four minutes of film work, but it did prevent me from seeing this as a lovable feature film.

Wan displays ample restraint in the first half of the film easing audiences into the possessed house along with the lovable and unsuspecting family parented by the excellent Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor.

Fogler's goofy, lovable Jacob is sure to be a fan favorite and he's the center of some of the film's best sequences.

I am under no illusion that the film is great in a critical sense, but I don't care - the characters in that movie are lovable and I cared when they died, and that's why I've returned to the movie again and again over the past twenty years.

Doing what every good sequel should, Taken 2 puts the audience back into the exciting world of the first film where they can enjoy those lovable characters as well as a new twist on the story.

The rest of the film is made up of short vignettes that take us through 1950s Hollywood, introducing a lovable set of characters that roughly blend into the main story.

But then Wittgenstein never had to sit through this unbearable new film from Warren Beatty, his first in 15 years, co-written, produced and directed by its star, Warren Beatty, who may well be affecting a kind of kinship with his subject, the crazy but allegedly lovable billionaire recluse Howard Hughes.

MacFarlane takes the opposite approach, wherein he believes this film can simultaneously be obscene and lovable.

The film nevertheless finds time for a mother - son chat on mortality, ruminations on life choices and a resurrection of the «Dollhouse» character Dawn Wiener as it covers four stories in which a lovable dachshund lives with a new owner.

As a result, Moonee and her pals — in one of the films great touches, she starts the movie hanging out with two boys and via the transient nature of childhood ends the film palling around with another girl altogether — become some of the most compelling, realistic, and lovable (despite the fact that they are objectively little monsters) protagonists in any film last year.

Having dealt with Kidman's dominatrix in the first film, the lovable little marmalade - eating bear from Peru has a new antagonist trying to steal his scenes - Hugh Grant, typecast yet again as a vain and smarmy narcissist.

The film stars: Emma Watson as Belle; Dan Stevens as the Beast; Luke Evans as Gaston, the handsome, but shallow villager who woos Belle; Oscar ® winner Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belle's eccentric, but lovable father; Josh Gad as Lefou, Gaston's long - suffering aide - de-camp; Golden Globe ® nominee Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, the candelabra; Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the harpsichord; Gugu Mbatha - Raw as Plumette, the feather duster; six - time Tony Award ® winner Audra McDonald as Madame Garderobe, the wardrobe; Oscar nominee Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the mantel clock; and two - time Academy Award ® winner Emma Thompson as the teapot, Mrs. Potts.

This intimate portrait of a broken, yet lovable family gives viewers a quirky story, fascinating characters and compelling performances, but the hands - on camera work and the almost claustrophobic framing upends most of the film's emotional appeal.

Wandering past these lovable couples is the film's ancient mariner, a broken - down rock star named Billy Mack, who is played by Bill Nighy as if Keith Richards had never recorded anything but crap, and knew it.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the lovable and hilarious duo behind Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End, have just formed a new film and TV production banner titled Stolen Picture, reports Deadline.

The film's CGI star Paddington Bear, voiced masterfully by Ben Whishaw (James Bond's latest Q), delivers the perfect balance of earnest and lovable.

In the upcoming film OUR IDIOT BROTHER, lovable idiot Ned gets arrested, leaving his dog Willie Nelson behind.

Ms. Devine, with her sweet, girlish voice, is usually cast as a lovable pixie in films like «What Women Want,» but here she reveals an impressive range, bringing out both Cassie's vulnerability and callousness.

(In Ontario, Canada, lovable censor Mary Brown banned the film outright.)

It isn't simply that her voice comes out clear and her characters feel tailor made for her; there's a sweetness in both films that was absent from Baumbach's previous efforts — a desire not just to present flawed people who were often unlikable but show that these deeply flawed, often unlikable people can also be lovable.

As great as that film and its beautifully inflected father - son relationship are, Wallace Beery as the slow - witted but lovable lead doesn't achieve the complex characterization Takeshi Sakamoto does in the equivalent role of a day laborer, and Jackie Cooper as Beery's son isn't any more expressive than Tokkan Kozo is as Sakamoto's son.

From Charlie Chaplin's silent antics as the lovable Tramp in The Kid (1921) to the colorful Japanese fantasy film Jellyfish Eyes (2013), subscribers will discover a wide range of films available for all - ages.

They also brought back Peter — a lovable member of the X-Force who died horribly in the film — and killed the Origins version of Deadpool, along with Reynolds himself just before he reads the script for Green Lantern.

In almost any other version of this film (including any that would come from Hollywood where inclusion, diversity and #MeToo is in full swing) the two male leads would be depicted as hardscrabble, hardworking lovable rogues conquering the world while their devoted women keep home and hearth, smiling lovingly at their achievements.

The film is way more lovable than its chief competitor, to be sure, but films with genre underpinnings just don't historically win Best Picture.