Sentences with phrase «middle film»

Dances with Wolves is ultimately a very middling film.
Unlike Ferrell, Wahlberg has a few especially strong films on his resume — a result of working with directors like Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell — but both stars have appeared in far too many middling films, as you can see below.
Middling films such as «The Penguins of Madagascar» and «Over the Hedge» would end up with more or the same number of nominations as other animated films that were on a slew of year - end top 10 lists (don't get us started on the year «Fantastic Mr. Fox's» only earned three nominations).
However it is incredible that this middling film won Best Picture over the original A Star is Born, Stage Door and the Awful Truth!!
The middle film in The Hunger Games trilogy, in IMAX, is cleverly helmed by popular music video director Francis Lawrence («Water for Elephants» / «I Am Legend» / «Constantine»).
All - in - all, like many of Hitchcock's middling films, this one is flawed but enjoyable.
Combine that with a children's choir performance piece in the middle the film, and one can see the emphasis of «the future» in this telling of the play.
Warner's combo pack doesn't add much value to a middling film that is at best a borderline rental.
The Godfather's middle film was all back story.
Much of the middle film plays more like an episode of a TV series rather than a $ 200 - million - dollar feature film.
In fact, he's almost loyal to a fault, in the sense that as architect of this «middle film» in the saga, he creates a glorious follow - up from its predecessor and a promising lead - in for what follows, without quite enabling it to stand on its own.
Richard Linklater's marvellous Boyhood has six nominations, but that is fewer than the decent but middling film The Imitation Game, about wartime codebreaker Alan Turing — and only as many as Clint Eastwood's fantastically dull and mediocre American Sniper, which has been hugely overrated.
The Venerable W is far more lucid than the middle film in Schroeder's trilogy, Terror's Advocate (2007), and it builds to a genuinely horrifying endpoint.
In case you didn't see the middle film, «The Desolation of Smaug,» the final film opens with the same scenes that closed part two.
There was a commitment to making the film work as a middle film in a series that served to allow a few twists and turns, but without the full satisfaction of a payoff, which only made me want to see the next films as soon as possible (Mockingjay will be split into two films released separately).
Run All Night is a more straight down the middle film than the previous two Collet - Serra collaborations.
I suspect we are yet to enter the darkest days facing our fearless heroes, and if this middle film is a barometer of anything, it's solemnity.
Ostensibly the middle film in Aki Kaurismäki's still in the works Le Havre harbor trilogy (following 2011's Le Havre), The Other Side of Hope is another eccentric humanist tale from the forever happy - sad Finnish auteur.
Even bearing in mind that this film was always going to be fighting the uphill battle of the «middle film» curse, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug still didn't quite live up to expectations.
Perhaps it's because «The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers» — Peter Jackson's last «middle film», from The Lord of...
Pointedly, at a period in our country where it seems that some of the activism Sayles has spent much of his art trying to drum up has finally begun to manifest itself in voter - turnout among the young, Sayles has produced his most flaccid, middling film.
(The middle film, 1961 ′ s La notte, was also re-issued some months ago in the same format.)
This is the middle film in the trilogy and has the return of the characters from THE FORCE AWAKENS.
Much like other trilogies, War takes what I loved about the middle film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and brings it all home to an extremely satisfying conclusion.
It's an odd in - the - middle film and I still can't be completely sure how the Academy has responded.
However — although Oldman's performance is fantastic, elevating a middling film — Timothée Chalamet offers an utterly mesmerising performance in Call Me By Your Name.
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