Sentences with phrase «movie is timely»

And the movie is timely with what's going on in the country today (a rarity for narrative studio movies).

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It's a timely movie about the past.
If the FCC does not try to reestablish net neutrality rules, broadband providers would be free to create a two - tiered market that could force content providers to pay extra for ensuring their services get to customers in a timely fashion — whether that content represents streaming video of movies and TV shows, a two - way telemedicine video consultation between patients and doctors or the live - streaming of a professor's lecture.
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To be sure, his story is extraordinary, thrilling, and tragic, familiar as old World War II movies and also terribly and apparently forever timely, focused as it is on torture and the limits of vision that might inform it.
As necessary as a history lesson we've forgotten and as timely as the day's latest Trump or sexual harassment (or both) scandal, «The Post» is a newspaper movie about a turning point in political history and the legacy of the news organization whose motto in these trying days is «Democracy Dies in Darkness.»
What does it mean to you to see a movie like «Zootopia,» built around such a strong and timely social message, be acknowledged by the Oscars the same weekend Donald Trump takes office as president of the United States?
And if Spielberg's film is as timely as a morning edition blaring an urgent headline, it's also a knowing entry in a long - running series: the newspaper movie.
It's hard to imagine a movie that's more timely than Steven Spielberg's «The Post.»
With one of the deadliest wildfires in the state's history raging in California, it doesn't seem likely many people will want to see a movie about a tragic wildfire, but Only The Brave is a solid film that is a timely reminder of what is at risk when a wildfire breaks out.
The movie ends up having a lot to say about the seething anger of poor, rural white Americans who are barely surviving and are the bedrock of Donald Trump's support (yep, it's timely).
Indeed, the first half hour or so of the movie is incredibly timely, almost humorously so, as we see Nixon's men trying to get Hoover out of the top FBI spot only for Hoover to die.
The Company Men frustrates more than lesser movies because it tackles a timely real topic like an insincere Hallmark sympathy card and isn't even as effective as that would be at relieving the pains of crisis.
«This whole thing is thrilling, and timely, because we actually think of ourselves as the «Star Trek» of movies about best friends in an improv group,» said Birbiglia in a statement.
Talk about timely reviews, approximately 6 months after the movie was released in theaters, and one month after it was released on DVD the world will finally get to hear my much anticipated thoughts on the film.
Between the last trailer for The Angry Birds Movie and this cute, timely promo, I think this could turn out to be rather enjoyable.
The Mackendrick film's plot and imagery both rely on the timely, English steam trains that always seem to be within earshot of the action, and the Coens found a wonderful cultural - historical parallel by setting the new movie along the Mississippi River.
The title is more of a symbolic gesture toward a society that represses intelligence until it self - destructs, and in that regard, the movie couldn't be more timely.
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I caught the pic at TIFF and while the movie may not be entirely satisfying as a whole, it's still an incredibly fascinating look at a very timely issue, and it boasts as swell lead performance by Ethan Hawke.
A kind of Rogue One for All the President's Men, the film is a timely, terrifying and ultimately rousing movie in an era of daily presidential threats against the free press.
«Sicario» is a frequently great movie, both timely and timeless, and should play well for decades to come.
While the movie delves into the important and timely subject matter of murdered Indigenous women and sexual assault, it could still be difficult for people to reward a film that has any ties to disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
The set designs are extraordinary, and the movie features a surprise ending — especially for those who left the theatre prematurely — with a timely message about international togetherness.
Daniel Kaluuya's acting nom in a tough category shows there's support across the board for what might be the most - talked about and timely movie in the race.
For as old - fashioned as «Hell or High Water» feels at times, it's a movie that deals with some incredibly timely themes, especially in a post-election America still reeling from the last economic depression.
That movie looks amazing and the story is cool and timely and does n`t AMPAS value timeliness above all?
This is a perfect film for its era, a movie that predicts the personality - obsessed era of the»80s, but it also feels timely to today, an era in which celebrity can often be mistaken for genius.
«Battle of the Sexes,» starring Emma Stone as tennis legend Billie Jean King and Steve Carell as the theatrically chauvinistic Bobby Riggs, is an inspirational sports movie infused with some timely feminism and a very charged love story.
It doesn't require much thinking and can, at times, rely on corny moments, timely celebrity namedropping and sight gags (the spider bite scene is somewhat cringe - worthy, especially after the repeated flashing of genitals — you'll see what I mean), but sometimes all a movie needs to be is entertaining — which this one definitely is.
The fact A Most Violent Year can have those timely connections now is why saying less and showing more about «what your movie means» can be so valuable for a film of this kind.
Bursting with a rich blend of timely themes, superb voice work, wonderful visuals and laugh - out - loud wit, Walt Disney Animation Studios» «Zootopia» is quite simply a great time at the movies.
My only problem with the movie is its loud, though underwhelming, score by Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch, but the timely use of Vangelis» «Tears In Rain» redeems this sin.
And it's also still up against Wonder Woman, which was not only one of the top movies of 2017, but also captured the zeitgeist in a much timelier way — though that film's Allan Heinberg - penned script did not get a WGA citation either.
It's a riveting and intense horror movie, a terrific (and timely) piece of racial and societal satire, and just a great fucking film.
It might be time for a rethink: «The Wild Bunch» is still very much with us, in every movie that gushes slo - mo rivers of blood in the name of brotherly principle, in every action film that lunges for timely political complexity amid the spent ammo casings and slung epitaphs.
We can do the whole song and dance of spelling out the basic reasons for the movie's importance: what it means for Hollywood that a project of this size, with this budget, and with a nearly all - black cast, can finally seem like a worthwhile risk for a major studio and the timely impact of a movie about a mythical African kingdom, a so - called «shithole country,» to be released at this moment in our political history.
Moves like this are extremely important (and timely) for Amazon, with Google Play making recent expansions to their Movies and TV offering, including a recent update to their iOS app that now allows for offline media streaming.
Pricing seems to be in line with other services, and RIM has already said that content updates will be timelymovies will hit the store at the same time as the DVD release, and TV shows will become available the day after they air in the UK and North America.
This is their first time tackling a Marvel property, and it's certainly a timely choice one, considering that the second Guardians movie has just been released in cinemas.
All that stuff is about making the internet run properly — after all, a packet containing the next frame of your streaming movie or online game needs to be delivered in very timely fashion, while email or a Facebook post can take its time (relatively speaking).
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