Sentences with phrase «more films in that genre»

For my money, I think there's only a handful of truly great horror films in any given decade, but our own Tim Buel sees many more films in that genre than I do each year.

Not exact matches

If they have demonstrated an interest in a particular genre and have viewed similar films in the past, they are more likely to be prepared for the moments that have contributed to the movie's rating.

It works for your appreciation, which is more than can be said for many similar films in the genre.

it was certainly a more accessible film in terms of the sci - fi genre and has bolstered the credibility, much like Children of Men, however, I disagree with the seamless integration of the film styles and think the trailer misled, as the film is not really mockumentary at all.

This carping ignores the fact that this sort of thing now seems dated and even faintly embarrassing in the genre, a point brought home through the exciting but positively antediluvian coming attractions trailer for the next Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies, prior to the Peacemaker screening (which, in retrospect, makes the other trailer, for the Bruce Willis film The Jackal, seem even more pointless).

Like the film, characters take the opportunity to play nice, adhering to the social strata of the time, forcing us to give up the more overt subversion of the first film in favor of pure genre immersion.

While she's the reason to see this movie, the plot is also well - done, and is a more positive piece than most of the films in this genre.

Box office receipts, however, were down by more than half, and Magnolia's genre film sub-label Magnet Releasing was responsible for Storage 24, which had the lowest reported domestic grosses for any theatrical release in 2013.

Once again the most prolific distributor of the year, IFC maintained a more - than - one - film - per - week pace throughout 2013, with releases in multiple genres coming through a variety of sub-brands, including the artier Sundance Selects and the horror - oriented IFC Midnight.

I've always maintained that it's ok to boast about one's talent if you have actual talent, and De Palma, whose work has spanned so many genres, has gifted us with more indelible moments in any given film than most directors have in their entire careers.

What makes «Very Bad Things» a more rewarding experience than other films in its genre is that writer - director Peter Berg seems to be onto the fact that he's making a piece of shock schlock and not a sociological pronouncement.

Depressing, cliche, and quite unwatchable at times, Dear John really doesn't have an interesting story to tell, and despite it being in the romantic genre, the film makes the viewer feel nothing more than annoyance.

Then, as told partly in flashback as Arthur (Harrelson) is being interviewed by a court - appointed psychiatrist (the underrated Sandra Oh), the safe distance that gives the audience derails the pace and the film becomes more serious than it ought to, no matter the subject matter and this results in it becoming every «realistic» work that looks down on the idea of either a superhero or the genre.

This is a rare horror film that was rumored to be shot in one single uninterrupted shot to be even more suspenseful and realistic compared to other films in this genre.

Schrader works in a stately, dark - toned style that's far more compelling than the frenetic genre hash of his last two films, «Dying of the Light» (2014) and «Dog Eat Dog» (2016).

Although it shares many similarities with the first film adaptation of the novel directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1959, Tsukamoto chose to bring some of his more traditional genre film experience to the project in order to create a more vivid portrait of the horror and obscenity of war.

«Schrader works in a stately, dark - toned style that's far more compelling than the frenetic genre hash of his last two films, «Dying of the Light» (2014) and «Dog Eat Dog (2016),» Variety opined in a review, coming into «First Reformed» as a summation of Schrader's work: «Paul Schrader pours all his obsessions, from Robert Bresson to pulp violence, into a grindhouse art film you can't stop watching.»

This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than traditional commercial fare.

However, for all lovers of Bruce Lee, kung fu flicks, and revivalists of Seventies cool, it's a quintessential film, indispensable in its genre and firmly implanted forever in film history as the one that set the mold, even if future endeavors would top it in terms of breathtaking action, daring stunts, and more substantial stories.

This is no mean feat given the terrible portrayal of cybercrime in most films of the genre, and it at least gives hope that the setting is more than merely a gimmick.

2» (Blu - ray + DVD) Details: 1960 - 65, Arrow Films Rated: Not rated The lowdown: More genre features are included in this set that offers films from one of Japan's oldest movie studios.

One of the most cinematically compelling recent films in any genre, the enigmatic horror story by director Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, The Winter, depicts the porous boundary in the human imagination between fantasy and reality, past and pre... more

A Borgesian palimpsest, a movie in search of a genre, a lament for film when it was film, a bittersweet critique of the deadening of moviegoers» sensibilities by their immersion in digital graphics — Leos Carax's barmy Holy Motors is all this and more.

«A street - racing blockbuster about traffic cops» is one of the more endearing action - film premises in recent memory, and in terms of conceptual scale alone it seems a refreshing rejoinder to the genre's rather exhausting penchant for maximalism.

Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video review to provide context via clips of the film is a step beyond what the vast majority of populist or even academic film criticism has done in the past, let alone other related films in the genre and in the director's oeuvre for context.

Director Claire Denis is choosing a more diverse range of film projects than any other time in her career - and it's best exemplified by Let the Sunshine in, a romcom that subverts genre expectations on the hunt for true love.

Where «Blade Runner» dressed its questions up in the gloss of film noir, «Blade Runner 2049» is more ready to run outside of genre trappings — although they're still there — and settle on long sequences tackling K's response to authority, sexuality and more.

Quentin Tarantino has dabbled in just about every genre at this point in his career, so it's only natural that he would try his hand at a Western, although «Django Unchained» is actually more of a genre mash - up between a spaghetti western and a blaxploitation film, with all the musical cues, whip pans and other stylistic flourishes that both genres are known for.

Like «Coraline,» it's not your traditional children's movie, and it dips more than just its toes in the scary film genre.

And I'm glad I did because some of the issues I'd had the first time (I'd found its metaphor a little scattered) came more into focus, and I was reminded of its many strengths - Peele juggles all sorts of genre and tonal trickery with ease, and I love every single performance in the film (yes even whatever Caleb Landry Jones is doing).

Men wrote more reviews of films in all genres than women.

Although not nearly the classic in the Western genre as Leone's other films, as an entity unto itself, especially when considering the works of a master director, its complexities make it more than worthwhile.

A packed slate of genre film awaits him, and at a time when it's never been more fashionable to be into the far out, the Man Who Would Be Sparrow is surely the ace in the pack for any mooted fantasy releases.

With the release of the film just a few weeks away, new trailer shows more of the relationship between Cruise's cowardly character and Blunt's warrior as the two are in training as well as a healthy dose of genre mainstay Bill Paxton.

Battle: Los Angeles, while more grounded in modern reality than Sucker Punch, is a sci - fi actioner and another installment into the recently busy genre of alien invasion films.

Even the films I like from this year I do nt have clear memories of (I saw Women in Love when I was way too young for it in the 1980s), don't truly love (big Altman fan but MASH, is more of a «like»), or I love them more for their historical value or genre personality than for actual quality (Boys in the Band, Aristocrats, Bloody Mama, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever).

These days, the more adventurous and unsettling genre films tend to pop up in Vanguard instead.

by Walter Chaw The only genre that boasts more direct - to - video fare than horror is porn, and since we haven't quite reached the point of quiet desperation needed to begin reviewing porn, find here a smelted cheddar of four dtv horror features (actually, The Boogeyman got a theatrical release in 1980, though I can't understand why): the eighth film in Clive Barker's venerable horror octology, Hellraiser: Hellworld; The Boogeyman and its second sequel, the legitimately straight - to - video Return of the Boogeyman; and Kevin VanHook's The Fallen Ones.

Though the data tells us that women are interested in genres favored by Hollywood, female filmmakers encounter significant obstacles as they attempt to move from independent to more commercial filmmaking, and face deep - rooted presumptions from the film industry about their creative qualifications, sensibilities, tendencies, and ambitions.

Fortunately, writer - director Scott Cooper found financing for Hostiles, a film with much more on its mind than the pitfalls of the well - worn, currently not - often - attempted genre that in this case tries to make a case for racial understanding against all odds.

I do feel that the film redeems itself in its finale, but even on second viewing, the tonal shift creates a rift in our protagonist's character that feels more suited to a film of a different genre.

Reeves (Cloverfield and Let Me In) has proven himself a strong, patient, emotional director of genre films, far better and more talented than his celebrated mentor J.J. Abrams.

This decade has seen a significant increase in what can only be described a «prestige genre,» a Sci - Fi or Fantasy film that is treated as serious drama and, usually, with a distinctly more artistic vision than...

But the filmmakers adhere too prominently to the tropes of the sports genre, all leading up to the big, dramatic encounter at the end, whereas tonally it felt the film may have benefited from avoiding such an approach — for while a necessity Billie Jean King took place in the match, the entire endeavour was more about putting Bobby Riggs in his place rather than to prove herself as an athlete.

From the dichotomous twin poles of the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès to the perceived new nouvelles vagues of Olivier Assayas and Christophe Honoré, a majority of the country's greatest films and filmmakers have belonged (however broadly) to one school or another; or, at the very least (as in the case of, say, Jean - Pierre Melville or, more recently, Danièle Thompson, Mathieu Kassovitz or Pierre Salvadori), they have worked within a genre that has had contemporary currency and visibility.

For 20 years, audiences in Hollywood and in other cities have thrilled to Noir City, the premier cinema festival devoted to what we call film noir — the movie genre that introduced us to a lot of the images above, and many more.

Well, a tweet from William Friedkin, director of «The Exorcist» (a picture sometimes named as the best ever in the genre), saying «I've never seen a more terrifying film than «The Babadook»» is a pretty good indication.

Overall, Train to Busan is a massively entertaining zombie apocalypse film that offers a more layered take on a genre that has become increasingly exploited in the name of cheap thrills.

It's rare for a film in any genre to valorize writing poetry and literacy, and rarer still for a film essentially about nothing to sport so many moments of genuinely fruitful observation in its interpersonal interactions, which makes the picture's flights of fancy feel the more unnecessary.

JC: All this is true enough, except that The Shining belongs in a more global sense to the horror film genre.