Sentences with phrase «most other critics»

Like most other critics guilds, AAFCA will soon be convening to vote for its Ten Best films and favorite screen performances of the past year.

Most other critics seem to strongly prefer the Audrey half (which features some of the most quietly impressive F / X work I've ever seen) to the Gary half, but to my mind, they complement each other perfectly — so perfectly, in fact, that the denouement that formally brings them together is unnecessary.

Not exact matches

The device was lauded for its impressive sound quality, but widely panned by critics for the incomplete version of Siri built - in and its inability to work well with most other music - streaming services.

It is a big conference with dozens of other featured speakers, most of whom are outspoken critics of the Church's teaching office.

Later Graham was listed by Life magazine as one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th century (the only other religious figure being Graham's perennial critic, Reinhold Niebuhr).

It is, therefore, no surprise that academic literary critics, who owe their very existence to Shakespeare and other great writers, have cast doubt upon Shakespeare's exalted position at exactly the moment in history when the societies of the West have become most anxious about their own integrity and probity.

Throughout I have depended on the scholarship of others, most of whom are historians, literary critics, or political scientists, but the primary data are the original texts written or spoken by Americans from the 17th century to the present, that are liberally scattered through every chapter.

It's interesting that Driscoll writes a piece about how others are criticizing his book — as he is one of the most vocal critics of others who don't fall into his view of how he thinks people should act and be.

That's what one of today's most vocal «grow the game» proponents acknowledged on Wednesday when he defended Rory McIlroy against critics who bash him and other top male players for skipping the Olympics.

At the other side of the spectrum, John Locke came to be known as the most ardent critic of these concepts, believing that there was no evidence for innate ideas whatsoever.

With several meetings held, Tinubu's most vocal critics such as Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Sir Olanihun Ajayi, among others, began to drum up support for him publicly.

Zimpher met last week in the Red Room with members of the state Black, Puerto Rican and Asian legislative caucus, who have been among the most outspoken critics of the plan that would, among other things, allow SUNY and CUNY schools to raise their own tuitions without legislative approval.

The move infuriated Miner and other critics who said Congel promised far more than he delivered in exchange for a deal that will save him hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes on the single most valuable property in the city.

«Many of us hate, not dislike, hate many other things that are in the budget that we believe very strongly will hurt the economy,» said one of the most vocal critics of the minimum wage hike, Sen. John DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, on the Senate floor.

What critics like English linguist Geoffrey Sampson, author of Educating Eve: The «Language Instinct» Debate, seem to find most irksome is Pinker's wholehearted promotion of a linguistic model that views the human capacity for learning language as distinct from other abilities, such as building bridges or writing symphonies.

Of all the struggles I've encountered while working with others as a life coach and while dealing with my own roadblocks, the inner critic is the most powerful and the most ubiquitous.

The industry's most respected critic has significantly impacted the lives of many: writers, designers, and all others who make the industry go round and round.

Coming out in the wake of a flurry of fact - inspired (if not fact - based) World War II novels, including Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Battle Cry was highly praised by critics and was a huge seller, possibly helped by the fact that it was a much more unquestioningly patriotic work than many of those other books, most of which took a more cynical, jaundiced, and complex look at the motivations behind the men fighting the war.

While most critics dismissed the film, it charmed a handful of others (such as Kevin Thomas and Rita Kempley) and did outstanding box office for a programmer, grossing several times its original budget.

Critic Consensus: El Cantante adheres to the most basic conventions of the musical biopic, rendering it indistinguishable from others of its ilk.

In just its second full year of operation, the New York - based A24 managed to release 11 films, with one (Under the Skin) landing on quite a few critic top - 10 lists, and two others (the Tom Hardy - starring Locke and the just - released A Most Violent Year) also greatly impressing reviewers.

You can «face it» that most critics and many others disagree with you.

Critics Consensus: El Cantante adheres to the most basic conventions of the musical biopic, rendering it indistinguishable from others of its ilk.

Women writing reviews were most likely to hold the job title of staff writer (35 %), followed by film critic (29 %), freelancer (29 %), or some other type of critic (8 %).

A nominee for Most Promising Performer of 2017 by the Chicago Film Critics Association, Jessie Pinnick stars as a young lady who grows closer to two women, one an aunt with whom she lost contact for a long time but knew her when she was younger, the other another young lady who becomes her girlfriend.

Ditto The Prestige, which has been hounded for most of the Oscar season by the year's other magician movie, The Illusionist, whose score (by Philip Glass) and cinematography (by Dick Pope) has caught the attention of several critics groups in the past few months.

The results of Sight & Sound's annual film poll — one of the oldest and most venerable of critics» polls — are out, and it will please Slate's Julia Turner, among others, to see that Get Out has topped the list.

Most critics are saying that the film features a lot of hi - jinx that kids are sure to enjoy, even if it doesn't reach the same emotional heights as other animated films.

One of the most glaring examples is his treatment of 19th century art critic John Ruskin (Josh McGuire) who dares favorably compare Turner's work to other artists.

Yet, doing so would also require that the industry (and critics) embrace the fact that most of such films would, at least initially, be rather underwhelming if not outright bad: after all, it is only through repeatedly practicing the craft of genre filmmaking that, over time, a film industry can elevate its game and make reliably solid films in any given genre — films that can hold their own when compared to those from other nations that excel at genre filmmaking, including Hollywood (the genre filmmaking tradition par excellence), France, South Korea, or Hong Kong.

As the most indefatigable moviegoer of all the Cahiers du Cinema critics who became directors — a distinguished group including Olivier Assayas, Leos Carax, Claude Chabrol, Jean - Luc Godard, Luc Moullet, Eric Rohmer, Andre Techine, and Francois Truffaut, among others — he knows MGM musicals like the back of his hand.

It starred Will Smith (of «Concussion» and 2015 non-Academy Award nomination fame), Jeff Goldblum, Randy Quaid, Judd Hirsch, Bill Pullman (not to be confused with Jeff Daniels or Bill Paxton) and Vivica A. Fox, among others and while panned by most critics, had enough oomph to best it's nearest rivals, «Twister» and «Mission: Impossible» by nearly twice as much money.

God bless you Jake Cole & Slant Magazine for staying grounded and keeping it real whilst every other critic in the world will endlessly fawn over this film for decades, most likely.

For the most part, critics are mixed on Rosewater — some love it (Stephanie Zacharek), others don't (Kenneth Turan).

Gene Siskel and I have an advantage over many other critics on the tube: we both still write for newspapers, where we have spent most of our time for more than 20 years.

uy Ritchie hasn't exactly done a great job convincing his critics that he can make something other than the hyper - stylized crime capers he's known for, so it's a bit surprising that a major studio would entrust to him one of the most popular literary characters of all time.

One is that this is all incidental and happens to give them some kind of moral background to stop the killer (but they could / do have morality coming from other sources) or Two, a propaganda film (the way most critics took it, making it one of the worst - reviewed films of Eastwood's career) that says because «God was on their side» and the like, they were ready and even protected just enough to «defeat evil» because of U.S. «moral exceptionalism» or the like.

I would LOVE to see him acknowledged by the Academy or other critics, but will most likely go unnoticed with Jackman and Gyllenhaal doing captivating work in the starring roles.

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The comment was somewhat facetious, but it underlined a curious fact: not only are most film - lovers unaware of Freed's huge influence on Band Wagon, Silk Stockings, Singin «in the Rain, and the 40 - odd other films produced by his unit, but the very roles of producer and production unit have been little studied by film historians, much less commented on by theorists and critics.

That would put you in the same corner as most other film critics.

While other critics were placing Rushmore on their Top Ten lists for 1998, I placed it on my most disappointing.

It's that most wonderful time of the year, Oscar watchers — the marathon gauntlet of critics groups and other film organizations handing out their year - end accolades begins this week.

Following the exits of Gleiberman, Lisa Schwarzbaum and Ken Tucker, most are wondering just exactly what this all means for other film critics.

But like most of the critics I've read, Grossman neglects the other side of To's work: his subtle visual poetry, which is found throughout Exiled.

But I do feel that to dismiss The Skelton Key — or Munich or Syriana or any movie that might be grouped under the heading of «mainstream popular entertainment» — simply because it isn't as complex in its arguments or as subtle in its art - making as some other movie that probably won't even reach cinemas in most cities across the country is to risk compromising one's own relevancy as a critic.

Also, I don't fully agree with the remarks that a critics group is being lazy for awarding the film that seems to be winning the top award from most of the other groups.

Spotlight won Screen Actors Guild ensemble honors, along with a pile of critics» awards; Mad Max chased down most of the other critics» prizes; The Big Short notched the very predictive Producers Guild of America award; and The Revenant snared the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, and the Directors Guild award.

Like most other Jerry Bruckheimer productions, the film maintains a somewhat universally entertaining air and many of the shortcomings critics can point out about the producer's other works don't apply here (at least for the majority of the picture).

That letter — and other efforts to reduce exclusionary discipline, such as suspensions, in favor of reforms like restorative justice — sparked a backlash from critics who accused the department of government overreach and of prompting chaos and disorder that could most harm students of color.