Sentences with phrase «movie wallows»

Visually sumptuous with stellar performances, Almodóvar's movie wallows in Hollywood history.

Worse, at least for parents with little ones in tow, the new movie wallows in lame jokes aimed at adults, such as one where a husky, whisker - studded transsexual princess says of Prince Charming, he «makes me hotter than July.»

We prefer when these movies wallow in paranoid government conspiracy theories.

Not exact matches

This movie is way too pro-family and unsentimental; it's toughly critical of those who self - obsessively wallow in the misery of their mortality.

Nearly all futuristic movies and novels — even sober business forecasts — seem to wallow in the same smug assumption that most people are fools.

Where «Amores Perros» was a feast of energy, wit and imagination, 21 Grams is like a starvation diet — a movie that wallows so profoundly in its own misery that watching it is like atoning for some sin you didn't commit.

... Aja and his gorehound ilk are making movies that simply wallow in state - of - the - art displays of torture, sadism and sexual humiliation.

Smart without being smart - mouthed, shrewd without being calculated, and quite obviously the work of a filmmaker with something important to say and a clear and impish way of saying it, Jerry Maguire is a triumph of nuanced social satire masquerading as a commercial romantic comedy, a movie that can both make fun of and wallow in its celebration of the crass spectacle American sport has become.

It's often a bummer to realize you're alone or at least widely abandoned in the act of loving a movie, so allow me to wallow in that terrible moment that the young revolutionaries experience late in this film's second act when they realized the citizenry has bolted their doors and abandoned them.

Not one of his festival favourites, Gilbert Seah writes the movie «wallows in self - pity» — film opens today

It may have wallowed in development hell for a while, but we reckon Wonder Woman delivers «the hope - charged blast of purely likeable entertainment that superhero movies might just need», and the chemistry bubbling between Diana and Chris Pine's Steve Trevor is delicious.

The slide began with David O. Russell's weak biopic Joy, then wallowed in all that can be wrong with a superhero movie in X-Men: Apocalypse before hurtling through space with the underwhelming Passengers, and ending with the flaming disaster (though bold and compelling) mother!

The movie doesn't so much wallow in the abhorrent side of humanity as it showers, bathes, and dresses in it before heading off to work at MTV.

That's just the tip of the iceberg: this movie seems positively eager to break down supposed barriers and wallow in foul - mouthed, crude behavior and dialogue.

What saves the movie from wallowing in its own filth, is the good job done by Hartley, Gentile and Dorfman as the poor bastards who can't catch a break.

Scary Movie 2 not only ventured far too often into the area of bad taste, it absolutely wallowed in it, and eventually became mired to the point of drowning in it's own mental diarrhea.

His movies are an amazing blend of speed, wit, and humor, dashed with darkness that he sometimes lifts us out of and sometimes lets us wallow in.

And when the movie takes a breather, as it often does, to wallow in Shakespeare's original dialogue, the results are suitably magical.

One sequence, in which Dr. P takes his class on a field trip to play every - man - for - himself paintball doesn't wallow in the kind of ritual abuse to which guy movies like this typically resort.

This reunion of actor Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg feels like a natural successor to their previous collaboration Lone Survivor, another true story adapted into a movie that wallows in both heroism and violence.

Since then they have primarily wallowed in mediocrity, although I must admit with very faint praise, that «Hall Pass» is one of their better movies in a while.

Surely, there's some discomfort in the way that translates into punishment for a kidnapped teenage girl, but it's not until the movie's climax that D'Ovidio and director Brad Anderson start wallowing in that abuse.

The movie comes right up to the edge of wallowing, but is spared from the nihilistic abyss by its new takes on old characters (Patrick Stewart as an ornery, elderly Professor X; Stephen Merchant as Logan's unexpected sidekick Caliban) and Wolverine's belatedly tender relationship with his sorta - daughter Laura (Dafne Keen).

There is only so much wallowing in grief that a movie can do.

Prisoners, on the other hand, starts off with a theme but — by the mid-point (it's a three hour movie that doesn't earn its running time) it has cast those themes to the wind and is perfectly content to wallow in pulp.

Although I spent the better part of the year revisiting the best and wallowing in the worst of 2000 - 2009, I still managed to watch 111 movies from 2010.

Actually shot in some of the poorest parts of India, this movie doesn't wallow in self - pity.

Writer Joss Whedon and co - writer / director Drew Goddard have fashioned a horror movie that manages to wallow in clichés while simultaneously being fresh and inventive.