Sentences with phrase «movie transcends»

This is fine, as far the genre goes, but for some reason people want to claim that the movie transcends the genre.

Occasionally a small movie transcends the traps and pitfalls of independence and reaches a sizable welcoming audience.

What follows is a rather traditional story of the cranky ogre making good by saving the princess, but it is so imaginatively told, and with such unabashedly adult sensibilities and humor, that this movie transcends typical animated fare and takes on a life of its own.

Yes, [it] sounds like high - concept nonsense, but the movie transcends such confining boundaries, probably because of Burshtein's good - humored affection for the characters who populate her story.

By no reasonable reckoning can the film be considered a competent piece of cinematic storytelling, yet somehow the movie transcends its silly screenplay with over-the-top action and visually imaginative battles.

Dozens and dozens of war movies had been made before it, but this movie transcended all of them in terms of how it portrayed combat.

Not exact matches

If that is not your thing, then don't watch this movie, because it certainly doesn't transcend the sub-genre.

But Dorfman's play, which has now become a movie directed by Roman Polanski, is less a record of injustices in the past than an attempt to imagine how such wrongs might be transcended.

We now have the distance to see just how close to a flawless and utterly timeless a film Steven Spielberg and his collaborators crafted — one that transcended genres (sci - fi and kids» movies) to become of one of the greatest and most durable of American movies.

It's a beautiful movie that transcends the category of being a movie.

By its end, the movie has transcended the boundaries of the classroom to become an educational experience in more ways than one.

a ghost story that wants to be more than just a ghost story, but in the process of trying to be a movie that transcends a genre, it insults the genre

It's not that it is the Blackest movie of all time, but that its blackness is loud, transcending frontiers, intentionally propulsive and presumably encompassing.

We've seen movies built around this kind of story a million times and while Jordan Canning's film Suck It Up never makes any attempts to transcend its genre trappings, it's at least sporadically amusing.

For the most part, «My Life Without Me» ably transcends TV - movie, disease - of - the - week waters (thanks to Sarah Polley's gritty performance), but even she can't save the scene in which a neighbor (whom we just met) gives an incredibly maudlin monologue that grinds the whole film to a halt.

Critics Consensus: Simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and peppered with action, Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise is a potent, well - acted road movie that transcends the feminist message at its core.

For Denis» film - which may be her most intricately constructed and intensely beautiful to date - is one that transcends words and stories, a movie to be felt rather than rationalized.

Features a standout central performance by newcomer Boyd Holbrook («The Host»), but suffers from predictable plotting and shallow characterizations that keep the movie from ever transcending the obvious.

While Sweet Country snakes along to an inevitable outcome, Thornton retains a sharp control over the movie's ravishing visuals, assembling them with a rhythmic quality that transcends any specific time and place.

With funnier jokes, better animation and more inspired references, this entertaining sequel is considerably superior to the first movie, boasting also a sweet message about love transcending all differences and characters much more charismatic now than ever before.

The movie never transcended its elaborate production work to achieve an independent reality.

In fact, the sign of a good sports movie is that it can transcend the game and be interesting for me.

(Doubtful on either count: the movie doesn't seem to want to transcend the fashionable misogyny of its day.)

For a spell, it feels as if the film will transcend the unpromising irony of its title with a female protagonist painted as unflattering and tortured, but by the time the final credits roll after an unforgivable third act, Murder by Numbers washes out as just another imminently forgettable movie starring Sandra Bullock.

A very good movie, but one that relies on a gimmick it never quite transcends.

As the critic David Thomson recently wrote, «Long - form television is the narrative form that has transcended movies as the novel once surpassed cave paintings.»

Safety Not Guaranteed is an ambitious production that knows the limits of its budget and how to transcend them — the mark of a great independent movie.

More than a review of Sean Baker's latest film, Kate Taylor examines the impact of a movie that transcends dire straits

It's a laugh - a-minute destruction derby that defiantly refuses to conform to standard rules of moviemaking, frequently transcending the simple story of a band reuniting with religious overtones, wanton destruction, and one of the finest soundtracks to a movie ever.

Langdon can't remember what has transcended over the past 48 hours, but Sienna is by his side to assume the leading lady duties held by Audrey Tautou in the first movie.

But a measuring stick does not make a movie, and Milk, for all its admirable qualities, doesn't transcend the problems inherent to biopics; it loses some of its power to the same lumpy conventionality that scotches most cinematic attempts at portraiture.

His work was hailed as cinematic experiences transcending the label of merely being a «comic book movie.»

If the plot sounds familiar, it's because the movie follows the same basic story beats of the original, and while that's not as problematic as it would be for most sequels — after all, these guys are so dumb they transcend logic — there's something that just feels off about this installment.

The force that brought us endless nights of TV chuckles would surely transcend the banality of Gervais» previous attempts at big - screen triumph, and create a movie worth watching.

Their night out on the town transcends plot specifics; the two actress» chemistry is so complimentary that their banter may as well consume the whole movie.

This is the very movie which transcended the Korean heartthrob, the amazing Jang Dong Gun as a really serious actor.

It would also provide a fitting close to the arc she shares with Gamora, transcending the pain their papa put them through (which is a running theme in these MCU movies) to avenge her sibling and finally be at peace with her own trauma.

Carrey is, admittedly, facing an uphill battle due to some offscreen political controversy, but a Dumb and Dumber movie should (transcend?)

While the film is bound to be a hit with the indie genre crowd, this is a movie that should transcend that group.

This isn't just a movie, but a cinematic experience that transcends philosophy and reality.

The mark of any great sports movie is its ability to transcend the sport in order to tell the human interest part of the tale.

The result is that Point Blank is at once poised and perfunctory, aesthetically assured but narratively challenged — a lean B - movie ride that never manages to transcend its inherent status as a tension - free fairy tale about men's inherent roles as heroic spousal and paternal saviors.

And the movie was able to transcend the usual limitations of off - season to gross a plenty profitable $ 95 million domestically (a baseball movie record) on a $ 40 M production budget.

Whether this depiction is truth or fiction, parents need to be aware this movie portrays some heavy content that transcends beyond other action figure flicks.

«The Exorcist» is one of the best movies of its type ever made; it not only transcends the genre of terror, horror, and the supernatural, but it transcends such serious, ambitious efforts in the same direction as Roman Polanski's «Rosemary's Baby.»

Feature debut for writer - director Sara Colangelo, expanded from her prize - winning 2010 short, shows an admirable concern for the plight of the American blue - collar worker and features a standout central performance by newcomer Boyd Holbrook («The Host»), but suffers from predictable plotting and shallow characterizations that keep the movie from ever transcending the obvious.

The historic reception that's greeted the film is indicative of how rare movies like it are, and how alluring the fantasy of being able to transcend our frustrating and spirit - killing realities is.

Teller is magnetic in the lead role, and he helps «Bleed for This» transcend boxing movie clichés.

There have been a number of bad superhero movies, but from the talking gas cloud the filmmakers cast as Galactus to Jessica Alba's dye job, this one transcends bad.

Movies have transcended such things in the past, but combine that with dinner theater - like acting performances and an inept screenplay so bad that it seems to have a malicious intent to inflict discomfort upon its viewers.