Sentences with phrase «most powerful films»

That, for me, makes it one of the most powerful films of the past several years, flaws and all.

Reason: It's one of the most powerful films I've ever seen, and one of the hardest to watch.

The critics did not approve of Stewart's first attempt at directing but to me, it was one of the most powerful films I saw this year.

I respect your position here Tony, but I found DISTRICT 9 one of the most powerful films of the years, a persuasive and wrenching examination of man's inhumanity to man.

On the strength of Staunton's performance alone, it is Leigh's most powerful film since Naked in which David Thewlis ranted and raged as the passionate misanthrope Johnny, adrift in an urban landscape blighted by Thatcherism.

Dee Rees has made the most engrossing, most engaging and most powerful film of 2017.

Perhaps her most powerful film yet is Whose Utopia?

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The film clips gathered in Syria's Torture Machine depict graphic acts of torture and the horrific injuries that result; powerful images capable of causing even the most ardent of pacifists to advocate force.

And the most powerful shackle in the film — above Belle's duty and Gaston's delusion — is the enchantment that binds the Beast and his servants.

Their most powerful agent is the film.

The film marks a transition for actor Andrew Garfield, from blockbuster superhero, to critical darling, in a starring role that is already being called one of the year's most powerful.

The aerial shot of all the worshippers streaming away from the mosque, protecting a defenceless Jewish child in their midst, is one of the most powerful of the whole film.

To us films are the most powerful medium for change and can help you get from A-Z on a topic as quickly as possible.

Even as the case is progressing, the film's center of gravity switches from the trial to the progress of Beckett's disease, and we briefly meet his lover (Antonio Banderas) and his family, most especially his mother (Joanne Woodward), whose role is small but supplies two of the most powerful moments in the film.

Sure, I love fun, and it is one of the most powerful ways to engross a player, but imagine if all films fit under the category of fun?

In the film's most powerful sequence, Baye simply looks up, sees the uninvited guest and knows that one of her boys is dead, and her simple reaction shot speaks volumes.

In fact, the film's most powerful moments occur when other characters show empathy toward the boy — most notably in a scene where he is caught trying to dine - and - dash, and his fate is decided by a waitress.

Most of all, it contains a powerful, deeply felt performance by Kruger that is both the best thing that she has ever done in a film and worthy of all the accolades that it has received — even during the ludicrous final section, she keeps things from totally spinning out of control.

And you are holding back something special from your kids as well, for while these films take themselves seriously and should perhaps be screened before being shown to some younger, more sensitive audiences, they are among the most powerful animated tales being told today, and they deserve to be allowed to wow you.

The film is without a doubt one of the most emotionally powerful films with this level of grim violence that I've ever seen.

In the film, the passage of the amendment is guided by William Seward (David Strathairn), his secretary of state, and by Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones), the most powerful abolitionist in the House.

In addition to his star turn in Unbroken, he can be seen in the great British film» 71, as well as Starred Up, in which he gives the most powerful performance by a male actor in recent memory.

Mission: Impossible III was a powerful film, and a lot of intrigue, where» Tomsito» for the third time playing all in a very dangerous mission, and for me the most dramatic.

The great writer / director Michael Haneke's ongoing commitment to an unblinking, deeply aware, and brutally honest cinema goes to new, more intimate and personal places in Amour, and while it's not always easy to watch (nor should it be; even at its most painful, it always feels precisely and ineffably right), it's tremendously moving and powerful in a way very, very few films are.

It is also Hitchcock's most innovative film in terms of narrative technique, discarding a linear story line in favor of thematically related incidents, linked only by the powerful sense of real time created by the lighting effects and the revolutionary ambient sound track.

Most of the film's subplots are inconsequential in the big picture and really only involve stalling, the all - powerful villain is mishandled, and big problems seem to have simple solutions that come off as cop - outs.

Poor health dogged Ford's career during the 1950s, but he still managed to create The Sun Shines Bright (1953)-- one of his favorite films, dealing with politics and race relations in the 19th century South — Mogambo (1953), and The Searchers (1956), which is considered one of the most powerful Western dramas ever made.

Just because I am my most powerful doesn't mean that I threaten your position as a man and hopefully, it's a film that can encourage us to be a little less scared of the other in that regard.»

Transcending the boundaries of both biopics and animated films alike with rich material, gorgeous images, a devastating story, and one of the most powerful thematic interpretations of the passion that comes with creativity, the story of Jiro Horikoshi and his journey from wide - eyed dreamer to war - engineer is a heartbreaking, existentially maddening, astoundingly beautiful and human film.

And yet, given that the film's most powerful relationship - namely, that between Tim and his father (Bill Nighy)- is inextricably connected to the shared secret of their ability, one struggles to see a way in which Curtis could have avoided this particular problem.

Look to this film for it's powerful performances and beautiful scenery; the story may be a bit lacking for some, and it's likely this will become more obvious on repeat viewings; however it's more than easy to overlook simplicity for the sake of some of the year's most provocative performances.

sung by Mick Jones as himself in a cameo that makes a strange sort of sense within the films context of cloning; a minor character with a freckle fetish who regards Anne of Green Gables as an erotic classic; and one of the most achingly powerful evocations of longing that I have ever seen.

The film also features the full power of Jean Grey as her telekinetic and telepathic abilities turn her into one of the most powerful mutants, called Phoenix.

Back as the world's most powerful telepath in the hit James Mangold - helmed film, Stewart was speaking onstage at the DGA Theater this month during... Read

Directed by Steven Spielberg, one of America's most accomplished modern - era directors, the film is both technically and emotionally powerful, rudely propelling its audience into the sheer nightmare of the war arena in order to shock it out of its customarily passive role and engender some level of emotional identification with its key characters.

One day, while out riding, Schindler witnesses the liquidation of the Krakow ghettoes, one of the film's most powerful and harrowing sequences.

One of the most historically significant films of all time, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is a powerful story whose lessons of courage and faith continue to inspire generations.

But the film's most powerful angle is its story of a young boy's rather nightmarish coming of age.

The unmasked scenes he has throughout the film are some of the most entertaining and powerful moments in the movie.

Joe's been tracking unusual signals and disturbances at the plant and on this day, his birthday, a major catastrophe occurs, resulting in numerous deaths (and featuring the most powerful scene in the film).

In fact, the film somehow wasn't the most visceral film in the festival (see below), but it was still an impossibly powerful and technically immaculate piece of work that announces the arrival of a fully formed talent in the shape of Avranas.

The realness of Jenkins script combined with two tour - de-force performances from Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn makes Private Life one of the most emotionally powerful films to come out of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

One of Newton's first roles was in the film adaptation of one of the most powerful pieces of American literature, Toni Morrison's Beloved.

Scorsese knows how what a powerful sense of escapism movies can be, and this feels like one of the most personal films he has made in years.

It is the third and most powerful of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's trilogy of films in which the action is connected or influenced in invisible ways.

From beautiful cinematic pans across hazy fields, to the powerful script, this film is a gripping, metaphoric mental game of classism, sexism, but most of all racism.

The kid then coasts down a city street on his skateboard to the setting sun, providing «Love Is Strange» with one of its most powerful images (in a film full of them).

It's this section of the film that's the most powerful as director Garth Davis plunges us into the reality of the vast unfriendly metropolis, and cinematographer Greig Fraser («Zero Dark Thirty», «Rogue One») creates some memorable shots of the huge, unwelcoming city at night.

Cera's infectious charm is one of the most powerful driving forces in the entire film.

On his third film, Waititi has refined his humour and storytelling to near - perfect level: his deadpan ways are beautifully connected to the most human moments of a genuine father - son narrative and emotions that flow gently but powerful underneath the funnies.