Sentences with phrase «more excellent films»

As we approach the end of the year and enter awards season, get ready for more excellent films.

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An interesting film, with a little more sobriety and a more elaborate development, would have been excellent.

In truth, he had more good film performances to his credit than one might think: he was excellent as the tubercular Doc Holliday in John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1948), and also registered well in Kiss of Death (1947), Cry of the City (1948), The Egyptian (1954), Betrayed (1954), and Chief Crazy Horse (1955).

A Thousand Pictures a Day: (20:03) An excellent, more extensive look at the aforementioned research trip the Coco team went on as the film was being developed.

Yonebayashi gives Arrietty an excellent sense of balance, with the adventure aspects of the story, which feel legitimately dangerous providing well - paced contrast the film's more placid moments.

More of the same can be said for Crowe's debut as a director with the excellent Say Anything, showing once again he had a knack for taking what would ostensibly be a «just another...» film and taking it to depths no one had bothered exploring before.

With excellent performances by the actors really making you feel even more connected with them, great diversity in planets and enviroments, and memorable moments teeming in all over the film, there's a reason

Excellent analysis of Torso, far more thoughtful than most reviews appear to deem the film worthy of.

Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to an excellent six - part documentary that runs the entire gamut of production — from location shooting in Romania, to Nicolas Cage's (creepy) performance capture of the Ghost Rider, to special effects and more — the Blu - ray also includes a feature similar to Warner Bros.» Maximum Movie Mode where directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor dissect the film (sometimes pausing it to discuss certain scenes in more detail) with the help of behind - the - scenes footage.

When his first English - language film, 2003's Fear X with John Turturro, failed at the box office, Refn's company fell into bankruptcy, forcing him to make two more excellent Pusher films, 2004's Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands and 2005's Pusher III: I'm The Angel Of Death, to climb out of debt.

Nonetheless, it's a film worth mentioning more than once: Clio Barnard's remarkable debut, which paved the way for the equally excellent The Selfish Giant, is an ambitious, experimental docudrama about playwright Andrea Dunbar.

The first Iron Man film was excellent and because it was it allowed the universe to expand slowly into something more.

He is excellent at capturing lost moments of Martin's childhood and then reintroducing them at key moments in the film to add a little more weight.

Aided by an excellent screenplay and assured direction from Nicole Holofcener, Lovely and Amazing is a film that plays for catharsis and empathy and achieves a good draught of both, content to leave expeditions into stickier climes to more serious - minded films.

It's escapist entertainment with a genuine heart and playfulness and when it's called upon to be exciting, it has some excellent set - pieces that Spielberg is more than able to handle.The late Melissa Mathison's screenplay has a tendency to wander and the film could have been tighter but the visual effects are astonishing and Rylance and Clement really deliver the goods in the acting stakes.

While Brolin is as good as ever and Connelly is excellent, these scenes significantly dampen the flow of what should've been a much more action - packed action film.

Arriving the same year American Spike Lee would remake his seminal Oldboy, Park Chan Wook's highly anticipated first English - language feature proved a kind of poetic statement of call - and - response to the tendency for North American cinema to re-make excellent films not just more linguistically palatable, but better while they're at it.

It's entirely possible to want to question or discount the early moments of A Quiet Passion as being just the sort of film that it looks like it should be, but the script and an excellent performance from Catherine Bailey makes it clear Davies is doing something a hell of a lot more interesting than expectations.

Sure, the film looks nice, but I would credit that more to excellent Los Angeles location scouting than full - bodied design.

A few more words about the «Garbo — The Signature Collection»: In addition to the films, it includes an excellent feature - length documentary about Garbo, by Kenneth Brownlow, which is airing this month on TCM.

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil film, or because the filmmaker or actors are bad people, but because the interplay of means and ends has been under - thought or misjudged, to the point where the film becomes a catalog of obscenities: a horror thrill - ride drawn from life, a thing for viewers to test themselves against while feeling just awful about Agu and his country, whatever its name is.

In his excellent Grantland piece, Wesley Morris draws an eerie parallel between Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant, but more to the point, Ryan Coogler's film.

It promises to be absolutely bonkers, but crucially, the excellent Lenny Abrahamson (the much - praised «What Richard Did,» the film that landed up - and - comer Jack Reynor the lead in «Transformers 4 «-RRB- is at the helm, so there should be more than going on than just madness.

Adam Driver, more of a wild card as the film's villain and heir apparent to Darth Vader, is also excellent, tempering his intimidation with the right sort of confliction to draw the audience in.

Though it can technically be labeled as a time travel film, «Safety Not Guaranteed» is more about its characters» relationships than the veracity of the sci - fi premise, and that's thanks to Derek Connolly's excellent script and the fantastic cast.

Fox gave Bryan Singer money to finish the longer version, so there's no noticeable difference in the new footage, and the film looks and sounds excellent, though some sequences look more digitally shot than others.

She gives a natural performance which we rarely see at such a young age and this holds the whole film together; which is impressive considering the other excellent performances seen from her more experienced colleagues.

As if she still needs to prove how consummately excellent she is, Cotillard tacks on some more buzz scenes to her flashy resume and gets away with claiming the film's most coherent (and therefore effective) monologues.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

This is an exciting film, made more so by the editing and cinematography, and the excellent performances.

Making things even more astounding is that it is Cretton's second feature film, a terrific start to his career but also an excellent piece of work one could retire on.

The film is led by the excellent pairing of Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone, which is more than enough to put tickets in our hands.

Donald Glover of course is excellent as Lando and I really liked Ehrenreich's performance as Han, a much more innocent take on the character than Harrison Ford's in the original films, but a charming one nonetheless.

Ridley Scott wisely plays it very low - key from the get - go, leaving the film to play out in the more than capable hands of his actors and he's rewarded with three excellent performances.

Jennifer Lawrence's performance is at once deeply personal and excellent at conveying the film's more grandiose concerns.

Excellent (4 stars) Rated G Running time: 83 minutes Studio: New Video Group 2 - Disc DVD Extras: California Quail Bonus Short; Urban Legends; Origins of the Flock; Special Homage to Connor; Mark Bittner's Home Movies; Please Don't Feed the Birds; Music Video: Ballad of the Brooklyn Parrots; Behind the Scenes; Parrots Around the World; Flock Updates; Mark Bittner and Judy Irving Update; Original Theatrical Trailer; plus two new films by director Judy Irving «Christmas at the Bait Shop» and»19 Arrests, No Convictions»; and much more.

Jonathan Demme's buoyant mid-Eighties yuppie road movie is, in retrospect, maybe the key American film of its era along with Blue Velvet (also 1986, but Blue Velvet was more popular), but despite excellent reviews very few people went to see it.

But the beauty of Jonathan Glazer's film is how unfamiliar the whole sci - fi element feels (visually and sonically — Mica Levi's score is excellent), while the setting of drab, rainy contemporary Scotland couldn't feel more familiar.

The excellent score, once again by frequent collaborator Jonny Greenwood, is more tame and restrained than his often cacophonous and percussive work in previous films.

Blu - ray Highlight: The 30 - minute documentary «Between Good and Evil» is an excellent retrospective on making the movie, featuring interviews with various cast and crew, as well as a few Kubrick experts, about everything from the casting process, to filming in East London, to the director's notoriously long shooting schedules and much more.

Tom Hiddlestone continues to prove why Loki is Marvel's greatest asset, because as soon as he enters the film, it gets a lot more interesting, thanks in part to his excellent chemistry with Chris Hemsworth.

Tonally it owes more to Rowan Woods's excellent drama The Boys rather than other Australian crime films like The Square, Gettin» Square or The Hard Word and yet it still follows the conventions of a crime drama to result in a complex and gripping piece of cinema.

MUSTANG A more socially significant Virgin Suicides, and excellent feature film debut from Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven.

Less really is more with this excellent collection of films with running times of 90 minutes or less, available to stream right now at SBS On Demand.

Whereas «Fast Five» was more of an «Ocean's Eleven» - type crime caper, «Fast & Furious 6» feels like a straight - up action film, jam - packed with a series of excellent set pieces that somehow manage to outdo the previous movies in excess and sheer ridiculousness.

I'm just relieved I've been able to enjoy another excellent year at Sundance, see this many films, and return so invigorated for more.

Deadpool is sort of a lock at the moment as he is seemingly posed to be an excellent character for those kinds of X-Men off - shoots, I'm a bit doubtful he'll show - up in the more mainstream films.

At this point it's more notable when the Coen Brothers make a film that's disappointing than when they make an excellent one: the filmmakers have one of the highest hit rates in the business, and aside from a spotty period in the mid» 00s, they've generally gone from great film to great film.

Released recently in UK Cinema's, Call of Heroes (2016), proves to be one of the best recent Hong Kong action films released in the past few years, focusing more on good acting, excellent action sequences and as little CGI as...

An excellent supporting cast include Peter Sarsgaard as Bobby, Greta Gerwig as Jackie's confidant Nancy (the first film I've seen Gerwig in where she wasn't annoyingly OTT in every scene) and John Hurt in a role made all the more touching by is recent departure from us.