Sentences with phrase «mood piece»

The flaws may be the same, but they are amplified, as we expect much more for our dollars than to see a slow moving mood piece that has this mild a payoff.

In the end, A Teacher is more of captivating mood piece than a character study.

The plot is, once again, by numbers, and the pressure is on the players and the cinematography to make the film the harrowing mood piece it wants to be.

The story never goes past being a chilling mood piece about a silent assassin who might be on the list of endangered species, and who remains safe as long as he stops being human.

Starting and ending on quiet whispers between two people, who end up in remarkably different places emotionally between these exchanges, The Ticket is at best, an eerie mood piece which doesn't live up to the sinister levels suggested by Stevens» narrowed, animalistic gaze.

Once Upon A Time In Anatolia is a procedural, but it's also a haunting mood piece in which the crime that's already been committed is known and now being dealt with.

If you can do that, you'll be rewarded with a sumptuously visual mood piece with solid actors, gripping action, and a fantastic soundtrack.

The film's first half, which simply follows Scarlett Johansson's alien character around as she seduces men to a horrific fate, works as an excellent mood piece.

The base melody and counterpoint are rarely performed, instead using the original score as a base to create interesting mood pieces on top of that each flow from one to the next.

Those looking for more traditional horror scares and gore will be disappointed, but then that's clearly not the intention here; rather, it's to be more of a subtly eerie mood piece, and on that level this modest picture works.

Writer / director Terrence Malick («Badlands» / «The Thin Red Line» / «The New World») superbly shoots it as an enthralling mood piece, that lets its romanticized story of the human condition be spelled out visually to overwhelm us with its deep emotional impact as a parable of love and the loss of innocence with biblical proportions.

This often risible mood piece stars Megan Fox as a circus sideshow attraction who has actual angel wings growing out of her back.

PASSION PLAY This often risible mood piece stars Megan Fox as a circus sideshow attraction who has actual angel wings growing out of her back.

They are also taken to heart by the film's director, Lynn Shelton, who creates a beguiling mood piece by staying close to her local roots.

Victor Erice's first film, about a little girl who sees Frankenstein and goes in search of the monster, works both as a haunting mood piece and as a subtle critique of Franco - era Spanish lethargy.

When the boys agree to help shelter him, with Ellis acting as a go - between for Mud and his weary girlfriend Juniper (Reese Witherspoon), the community gradually closes in on them, taking this evocative mood piece into more generic thriller territory.

Suzhou River, a first feature playing this week at Facets Multimedia Center, is an affecting, romantic, and fascinating mood piece from China.

I was inspired by my blue beauty products from EOS and Essie and had to put together some of my favorite blue mood pieces... perfect for the spring season

lacks the straightforward narrative or melodic thrust of The Wall, but it isn't as somnolent as The Final Cut, and if the songs don't call attention to themselves, they nevertheless form a long suite that works as a sustained mood piece.

While the film's reach exceeds its grasp when it comes to deconstructing the western genre and the real life history that it reflects, Hostiles nevertheless makes for a respectable mood piece, as well as an acting showcase for its main leads.

Mostly episodic, at least for the better part of its first half, Glazer's primal mood piece isn't as abstract as some of its champions have made it out to be.

Such a polarizing reaction shouldn't surprise director British Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast), whose bizarre, genre - bending mood piece generates some consistently powerful imagery even if it's never clear exactly what the film trying to say.

I think it's a great mood piece, but the movie generally disregards anything else once it's established its ground rules and setting, so I think a lot of people will find it frustrating.

More than a thriller, this adaptation of Jose Saramago's novel The Double is an absurdist - existential mood piece — and a very dark mood it is.

An exotic mood piece, based on the infamous Leopold - Loeb case, that probably didn't win director Tom Kalin many friends in the gay community.

In 2004 Sofia Coppola took home spirit awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay in addition to the Best Feature award for her intimate mood piece Lost in Translation.

Set in 1981 and executed in a style recalling both European and U.S. indie supernatural chillers of the late»70s and early»80s, the new film is a creepy mood piece that falters only by telegraphing some of its jump scares.

Before the first American remake of Ju - On was released in 2003, I would often be heard referring to it as «The Drudgery», describing what a chore it would be to sit through another vacuous horror mood piece.

It's the still center of a sinuous and ever - changing mood piece.

«Starry Eyes» is as gory as it is corrosively cynical, a supernatural mood piece that's equally influenced by the arthouse horror movies of David Lynch and Roman Polanski, and the grindhouse - ready Satanic Panic films of the»70s, like «To the Devil a Daughter,» and «The Devil Rides out.»

Rather than make a film about the dangers of cell phones and PDAs, someone in this country need to make a film about the dumbing down of popular entertainment to the point where films are little more than hypnotic mood pieces with no discernible story structure, character depth, or overriding themes to relate to.

Drive is a highly affective mood piece, whose formal style both complements the inner dimensions of the protagonist and creates a foreign but appreciable atmosphere dictated by his psychological state.

-- Jamie Graham, Total Film «A beautifully shot mood piece.»

The film is a tightly plotted, sharply realized mood piece, but it's Gordon - Levitt's performance that raises it from very good to great.

Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven's mood piece confronts the psychological ramifications of rigidly enforced customs; as the girls» freedoms dwindle and they face incremental imprisonment, they exhibit rebellion along with sisterhood.

You Were Never Really Here is a fleeting mood piece that, for its occasional moments of startling beauty and Phoenix's auching tumult, doesn't linger.

Evocative, riveting and ultimately contemporary in a roundabout way, Moon is a superb mood piece, sublimely cradled by director Duncan Jones, filtered through tireless work from star Sam Rockwell.

A sombre, lowbrow mood piece that's very much character driven and has an authentic feel for it's titular working class, Philadelphia neighbourhood, God's Pocket.

Nicolas Winding Refn follows up Drive with yet another stylish, violent mood piece.

Ida is, as well, a deeply affecting, sensitive and tremendously subtle mood piece central to which is Agata Trzebuchowska's magnetic portrayal of its eponymous lead.

The deliberately - paced mood piece unfolding against a decidedly - barren, British backdrop marks a most impressive writing and directorial debut by Hope Dickson Leach.

Still, this elegant, elliptical mood piece is an impressively original work, compelling proof that Escalante is one of Mexico's finest young directors.

nominated for 8 Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali) and Supporting Actress (Naomie Harris), the introspective mood piece follows the lead character's evolution from age 9 into adulthood, with Chiron and Kevin each being played by a trio of different actors.

But the movie is more of a meditative mood piece than a melodrama about race relations, because it is given to long stretches where Jason just sits on the curb holding his shaved pate in his hands staring at the piece of the street between his feet.

Hou Hsiao - Hsien's strikingly gorgeous martial arts mood piece The Assassin was one of our favorite films of last year.

The first two chapters of this macho mood piece intrigued me, but after the third or fourth variation on the same theme, it started feeling ponderous: too slow, too one - note, and leaden where it wanted to be weighty, the electric guitars on the soundtrack too loud and monotone too, like vuvuzelas at the World Cup.