Sentences with phrase «most effective films»

There has always been an air of amused nihilism in even his most effective films, but his latest bunch have been so poorly plotted, so insincerely characterized, and so philosophically hollow that the nihilism has taken control.

The Night Before may not be Levine's best or most effective film to date, but it carries an unmeasurable amount of holiday cheer that makes it hard not to like and occasionally love.

This is John Woo's most effective film, both visually and in terms of the limited thematic interests Woo has (namely the similarities between good guys and bad, which he also explores in The Killer and Face / Off).

Not exact matches

The thinnest film available (four millimeters) is the most effective and least expensive to use.

For example, if you're a printmaker and you've just finished a range of posters based on 80s cult films for a local exhibition, the most effective way to spend your money could be promoting your work to men interested in cinema aged 35 - 45 within 10 km of the gallery, instead of all genders, all ages, all across the UK.

The film, featuring interviews from experts and those in communities directly affected by flooding, explores how flood risk has been managed in the past and calls for authorities, organisations and communities to work together as the most effective method for flood prevention.

The dual sides of Gollum's personality — and Bilbo's consternation combine to create the most effective use of CGI, emotionally, that has ever been put on film.

This is a better film than what most people say and it delivers effective chills with a good enough story to keep you interested till the end.

Whatever caused all the production angst on this film I don't know, but you never get the feeling that Forster loses control of the images, and «World War Z» contains several of the most effective big - canvas action sequences in recent history.

The film's sleek moodiness and visual sophistication are so effective that there's even a scene here that makes Detroit look like the most romantic city in the world.

One of Olivia de Havilland's best film, for which she deservedly won her first Oscar, and one of Hollywood's most emotionally effective melodramas.

An effective genre film that leaves an unmistakably good impression, which is something most of Hollywood's supernatural thrillers usually fail to do.

Some of the film's most effective scenes feature Darwin and his best friend, the Rev. Innes (Jeremy Northam), debating the nature of nature while surrounded by the casual carnage of a soft English countryside.

Director Alfred Sole crafts a terrific film that delivers effective shock and will most likely make you feel uncomfortable.

In his essay Fassbinder noted: «After Douglas Sirk's film, love seems to me even more to be the best, most sneaky and effective instrument of social oppression.»

At least among the two Piñeiro films I've seen, it's the most effective use of repetition as a formal device, which seems to be an ongoing concern for him.

by Walter Chaw Completely uncompromising in a way that films, especially sports films, just aren't, Ron Shelton's Cobb is one of the most effective hagiographies in film history not for the way that it elevates its subject to sainthood, but for the way that it allows its subject to be one of history's most notorious, relentless miscreants.

This is definitely one of the most effective and emotionally affecting disaster films I've seen in a long time.

Midway through, Miike punctuates the film with one of the most effective startles in modern horror, and then picks up the pace, building grisly momentum toward a perversely uncomfortable climax.

Even while spending quality time with John, Emily, President Sawyer, Finnerty, and the head of White House security, Martin Walker (James Woods), you still know what's coming, but Emmerich doesn't just hand over the action as quickly as most films, giving «White House Down» an impressively effective build before unleashing the ultimate display of DC destruction.

I don't want to go into detail but his scenes with Diana were some of the film's most creative and effective moments.

Taylor's strengths are clearly that of a scenarist, of exploring voyeurism, of compiling effective soundtracks, and of culling excellent performances from largely - unproven actors (David Arquette in Dream with the Fishes; Tunney here)-- he is most certainly not a thriller director, and his dedication to being one has hurt both of his films to some degree.

Zombie's «Werewolf Women of the SS» tries too hard to be funny (of course, a last - minute cameo by Nic Cage as Fu Manchu certainly helps) and Roth's «Thanksgiving» (a play on seasonal horror films) has its moments, but it's Wright's trailer for the British horror flick «Don't» that proves the most effective.

Wyler Michael Moskowitz With Hitler laying waste to Europe and the United States refusing to answer the call to war, Jewish filmmaker William Wyler risks his career to make Mrs. Miniver, the most effective propaganda film of all time.

Sound design in the film is most effective in generating a sense of tension.

But Gosling's most effective bit of borrowing comes in bringing on musician Johnny Jewel, the original choice to score Gosling and Refn's first collaboration «Drive,» and whose music permeates that film despite much of his work being dumped.

The film's obligatory seance scene, which could have been rehashed from past horror films, is given a unique twist and makes for one of the movie's most effective moments.

Most effective in the progress of the film is the way the characters» lack of faith mirrors the viewer's skepticism: We are not satisfied with merely being told that the elevators can not get past the burning 81st floor, that the emergency stairwell is impassable, that the wind is too high for a helicopter to land on the building's roof.

Day - Lewis vividly portrays anguish in his torture scenes and radiates a forthright resolve when fighting to clear his name later in the film, but «In the Name of the Father» is most effective when dealing with the difficult relationship between Day - Lewis» Gerry Conlon and his father Giuseppe (Pete Postlethwaite).

Taxi Driver has been so effective in immersing us in Travis Bickle's singular, interior isolation, I think most of our memories of the film — its most famous images — are of his loneliness, when, in reality, the film is full of wonderful supporting characters (Peter Boyle as Wizard, and even Scorsese himself).

Perhaps the film's most effective segment peeks «Rear Window «- style into the windows of a flat that overlooks the road, with inhabitants including a garrulous, hugely likable old man living with his daughter, and a bedroom DJ whose mum and sister pay little attention to his wheels of steel.

Good performances by the main actors does make it a cut above most horror films if its ilk (though Joe Anderson's German accent is far from authentic), and there is a very effective creep factor involved in the choice of antagonist, a wildly growing, mimicking plant that can grab, infest and devour its victims in the most grisly and stomach churning ways possible.

It is this aspect which is most effective in the film.

Some of the film's more startling moments and visuals are the most effective and unsettling sequences I've seen in a horror film in recent years, which will be due in part to what personally unsettles me, but may have no impact on anyone else.

In Jiro's case, these beautiful things — most notably his design for the Zero fighter plane, which became one of Japan's most effective weapons in World War II — were requisitioned as implements of death, an irony that suffuses every frame of this dark and difficult film, which, it should be stressed, is not at all for young children.

Beforehand, though, comes the film's most effective scene, as the station learns of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr..

«Hacksaw Ridge» is not subtle, but it is brutally effective, and it contains some of the most justifiably violent battle scenes ever committed to film.

The cinematography is minimalist yet breathtaking, and the character of Tomás (a creepy kid wearing a sewn - up potato sack for a mask) is one of the most effective plot devices of any horror film in the past decade.

Needless to say, Karlson was proud of Walking Tall, most of all because it was a gamble that worked, and made him financially secure for the rest of his life, while generating a wave of adoring publicity that finally shed some light on his earlier, more effective films.

Simultaneously an examination of the processes of effective activism and a deeply felt romance, B.P.M. is one of the most refreshingly frank queer films we've seen in many years, both about politics and about sex.

He has been a talented and effective trainer of horses, and some of the film's most moving scenes show him at this work, which he deeply loves, and which may be the key to his future.

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.

This confusion means that some of the film's most significant scenes aren't particularly effective.

Most effective, and, unfortunately relatable, is how the film spotlights good people navigating their daily lives as they count down the time a loved one has left.

First and foremost, it's an incredibly effective thriller which can easily be called a horror film, more than suspenseful enough to keep you alarmed at all times, with one of the most compelling finales ever seen in cinema.

He has been a talented and effective trainer of horses, and some of the film's most moving scene show him at this work, which he deeply loves, and which may be the key to his future.

Though lacking the visual ingenuity or experimentation of Hooper's most famous film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Salem's Lot delivers a dutifully effective rendering of King's story.

The final shot of Martha Marcy May Marlene is perhaps the most effective of the entire film.

Tellingly, Signs also features bookend title cards touting it as «An M. Night Shyamalan Film» in thirty - foot letters — it's a total ego trip (note Shyamalan's extended «cameo» and exactly how crucial it is to the film: the man makes himself the most important character in the piece), and no matter how beautiful it looks, how expertly its sound is mixed, how funny it can be, and how effective a few tense scenes are, the picture is a first - class disappointment.

Had this been made ten years earlier when film noir was still popular, it would have most likely done well and been considered an effective example of the noir genre.