Sentences with phrase «many bleak films»

This is disturbing and bleak film, but I admired it.

His softly spoken presence and Stallone Sad Eyes ™ mean that this ostensibly bleak film doesn't make you want to slit your wrists once the credits roll, even though it really should.

This is a bleak film but also a potent one with a perspective that could not be relevant in the midst of the news story that has engulfed our industry.

A horror parody, an old and a new raunch - friendly animated series, a remorselessly bleak film from Angelina Jolie and, somehow, even more Narcos episodes?

Visually speaking, the city streets feel very close to the urban landscape of Blade Runner — this is a very bleak film, and unfortunately that darkness never feels connected to a larger theme or narrative focus.

This is one of the few purely comedic scenes in an otherwise bleak film, yet it sets the mood perfectly for a narrative of displacement, in which a woman tries to find herself in another country's ways.

This is a bleak film about a family living in the aftermath of what appears to be the end of the world.

But en route to the harshest, most unremittingly bleak film of his career, Solondz unleashes some of his sharpest commentary on human mortality and regret.

Gary Oldman makes the iconic role of George Smiley his own, but he's about the only thing in this bleak film that I have no real issue with.

David Michod's bleak film «The Rover» is an engrossing that features great performances by Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson.

Is there a precedent for such a resolutely bleak film as Biutiful to be considered a frontrunner?

It's a bleak film about the inherently destructive nature of beauty and youth — everything alive is dying — but there are real jokes dropped in the midst of the horror and despair.

This is a bleak film, where the heroes efforts to save his daughter feels futile, without a single moment of levity, and never a positive moment of family bliss.

The script by Gerald Ayres (Rich and Famous) suggests a bleaker film than what plays out here, and perhaps a bit more personal, but in the waning days of the disco era, superficial treatments were the norm for fare aimed at younger viewers.

In order to grind his axes, he has abandoned his history as the director of aggressively bleak films like 21 Grams and Biutiful and made Birdman, a comedy of sorts.

This is a horridly bleak film, but brilliant all the same.

The Counselor is a bleak film following a lawyer (Fassbender) who gets in over his head during a one - time drug deal with a Mexican cartel.

In order to grind his axes, he has abandoned his history as the director of aggressively bleak films like

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Blade Runner: 2049 may be a great experience for film buffs, noir fans and sci - fi aficionados, but it's a humorless jaunt into a bleak future.

Back in September, the burrito chain released a stirring short animated film called The Scarecrow that showed a bleak dystopian world created by fast food production industry.

Director John Hillcoat's film adaptation is equally bleak, downplaying the science and personalizing the human struggle.

I've gained an extra 10 lbs overnight, have raging PMS, or am super depressed and have spent the entire day eating chips in my PJs binge watching bleak melancholic foreign films on Netflix.

Oddly dated and loudly present in nearly every scene, the music conveys bleak, urgent anxiety from the outset, leaving the film little room for tonal maneuvering.

Shot on the actual island, the film has a washed out and bleak look that obviously mimics its location in the foggy and cold bay area.

Centered on a proud protagonist struggling with the revolting indifference of a state that doesn't care about those in need, this bleak and depressing film is also quite touching when showing the generosity of people even under horrible circumstances of poverty and despair.

It may be a bleak glimpse of humanity but I'll be damned if I ever find a film more honest than this.

Claire Denis's 2013 film Bastards is a squalid and serpentine anti-thriller, the most lugubrious, nihilistic work in an already bleak oeuvre.

The first of Ingmar Bergman's bleak but outstanding films from his trilogy of chamber plays about faith, alienation and the emptiness of life.

The film is, even by Paul Schrader's standards, a bleak endeavor, concerned with the durability of spirituality.

Despite the bleak - ness of the situation, the film vibrates with color, noise, music, ferocious arguments (both serious and teasing), and eye - catching snapshots of everyday life in Havana.

While the film does have a loosely Dickensian feel, it is not the Dickens of Lean, with its bleak shadows, striking expressionist angles and emphasis on social inequality.

The best part of Lars von Trier's fascinating, engaging and often didactic Nymphomaniac is that, despite the sometimes - grim tone and bleak color palate, it's an extremely funny film, playful, even.

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

The film is, even by Schrader's standards, a bleak endeavor, concerned with the durability of spirituality, its susceptibility to corruption and radicalism, and its place in modern American life: with the slow decay of the planet, as well as with pain, penance, and the validity of suicide and murder.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.»

Although not exactly heartwarming, Amour has a more contained vision of human relationships than Haneke's previous films without sacrificing its bleak foundation.

Filmed in bleak green - gray hues, writer - director Peter Landesman's movie depicts D.C. as a nest of vipers, of conspiracies within conspiracies, of paranoia begetting paranoia.

I found the film borderline bleak, and borderline predictable, at least in its resolution, yet admirable as well.

This almost adds to the bleak vision of the film, no music, very little uplifting moments, as if to enjoy yourself is frowned upon.

A bleak and grotty film, turgidly stereotypical in its view of homosexual life - but it's exceptionally well - acted, and consistent in its point of view.

Japanese director Kazuaki Kiriya's film might feature some handsome staging and solid production values, but it's hard to tell because his film is so relentlessly dreary and bleak.

But whereas that film was a darkly comic drama, bordering on a romance, his new film looks to return him to much bleaker territory.

It's highly regarded (as are all of his films) which got me interested, on top of the sci - fi focus, but it also sounded like it might be the slowest moving and most bleak title of his oeuvre.

The film is also unrelentingly bleak, with no real hope to grasp onto.

But as the days get shorter, the films look to get bleaker, as a trailer for a new young - skewing end - times picture demonstrates.

Colin Farrell took «five or six days off» after filming the thriller «Killing of a Sacred Deer» because he felt down due to the movie's «bleak core».

Instead Jonathan Glazer has created a film that's harrowing, freaky and visually stunning — with some bleak messages about humanity.

They have made a film that is both bleak and frothy, a tale of despair told with glee, a melodrama delivered with camp panache, a tragedy that is also a comedy.

Béla Tarr's bleak and bitter film is a glacially paced nightmare in which the scare factor has been replaced with desperate melancholy; it is composed with his characteristic long takes, anvil silences and fiercely unsmiling faces, shot in undersea monochrome, and prefaced with Tarr's habitual austere titles in Times Roman.

A beefed - up Joaquin Phoenix dominates Lynne Ramsay's bleak and uneven new film with the most muscular role of his career.