Sentences with phrase «more terrific movies»

Ten more terrific movies, any of which might have slipped into my first ten on a different day: A Cat in Paris, Bernie, Liberal Arts, The Master, Middle of Nowhere, Moonrise Kingdom, A Royal Affair, The Sessions, The Silver Linings Playbook, Skyfall, Smashed.

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The movie makes terrific use — more than once — of Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song,» which formed the basis of the brilliant trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo several years back.

It's easy to forget, if you haven't seen it in a long time, that there was more to the movie — and to Pfeiffer's terrific work therein — than that one intensely erotic scene.

Buoyed by crisp lensing by Saulnier himself, channelling interiors and evening alike to an aesthetic twist on thematic darkness, Blue Ruin never aims for more nor less than to be a terrific time at the movies.

While the movie suffers from a few tired narrative turns (much of Ali's life may be storybook - perfect, but we expect more grit), the fight scenes are terrific: brutal, kinetic and purely expressive.

Final Verdict: Whiplash is so much more than a movie about Jazz; it is a thrilling battle of wits between two great characters, performed by some terrific actors.

One terrific shot in the movie looks at the back of Roque's head, more specifically his ear, as he drinks up a ton of dizzying new knowledge, with more focus and determination than he ever uses while snorting up a line of coke or screwing his latest conquest.

The movie is the latest exercise in comic noir by the writer / director Shane Black, and it shares a great many attributes with his terrific 2006 comeback film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: the two mismatched detectives and their more practical female associate, the convoluted plot that features intersecting crime cases — even the hand maimed in an unfortunate encounter with a closed door.

Movies I admired more than actively loved «The Master,» «This Is Not A Film» (strong civil disobedience), «Killing Them Softly» (too heavy handed, with incongruent, inconsistent stylization, terrific performances though; what if Richard Jenkins had starred?)

Certainly tears are part of the grieving / healing / accepting process, but tear - jerking by filmmakers is not enough to make up for deficiencies elsewhere, any more than an abundance of terrific action choreography makes up for a lack of character development in a martial arts movie.

I'm not convinced either has the presence for the big screen, although Aniston was terrific in «The Good Girl» (a small movie) and Parker, who strikes me as more of a character actress than a leading lady, was suitably kooky and vivacious in Steve Martin's «L.A. Story» and hilarious as Johnny Depp's exasperated wife in Tim Burton's low - scale «Ed Wood.»

Weitz and his brother, with an assist from Nick Hornby, directed a terrific manhood movie, About a Boy, and, more recently, he's written those pointed plays about the dangers of success and the hollowness of fame that successful people like to write.

'' «Ex Machina» is one of the headiest and most impressive sci - fi debuts since «Moon,» and if we see more than a handful of movies better than it across the next twelve months, 2015 will be a terrific year,» said Oliver Lyttelton of The Playlist.

It's a real revelation, and although he carries the movie on his shoulders, he's matched by a terrific supporting cast — Tilda Swinton more than deserved her Oscar, and Tom Wilkinson would have been a good choice to win one, too.

It's one of the headiest and most impressive sci - fi debuts since «Moon,» and if we see more than a handful of movies better than it across the next twelve months, 2015 will be a terrific year.

The relationship between Ronsel and Jamie, who bond over their shared wartime traumas, is genuinely enthralling (and helped by Mitchell and Hedlund's terrific performances), but it doesn't even get going until more than an hour into the movie, which runs for 134 minutes.

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