Sentences with phrase «much less a movie»

Hollywood, beset by scandal in 2017, wouldn't mind backing a movie about the power of the free press as a sideswipe at an unpopular president, much less a movie about the power of the free press that might be the most feminist film Spielberg has ever made.

Afros like the one Zazie Beetz sports as Domino, were, for a long time, considered rather radical as a style choice, and you'd be hard pressed to find an office worker with one, much less a movie or TV character who wasn't supposed to be, well, a political radical.

Not exact matches

The movies rarely win critical accolades, much less Oscar nominations, and to date, no science fiction movie has ever gone home with the statuette.

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

Even if you were not personally affected by bullies, if you watch movies you know that bullies choose to pick on children smaller than that, «less cool», or much smarter.

It's so true that television and movies, and to a lesser extent music, influence names, certainly much more than any other trend.

That would be fine for any other time of the year, but it is still a lesser hold than the first two Hobbit movies, Tron: Legacy and pretty much every other big pre-Christmas December release in modern times.

Maybe eating a diet with less meat and processed foods would cause the same, healthy result that they portrayed in the movie with the plant - based diet (they never said it wouldn't, they just said they chose to promote a wholly plant - based diet), but it is indisputable that the current «western diet» encourages consumption of way too much meat and processed foods than what the average American should be consuming.

The next trip to the movies will be much less painful with a stash of these sweet / savory treats on hand.

Whatever tactic the distributor takes — and you can see them not opting to expand much further than the three - digit theater count at which Young Adult topped off — is more of a reflection of what audiences are capable of warming to and enjoying and less a reflection of this admirable and intelligent movie.

It shouldn't happen to anyone, much less a Dame - not a movie of such barreling awfulness that it strands the great Helen Mirren in a gothic house of cards that collapses on actors and audiences alike.

Director Stanley Kubrick, working from a script cowritten with Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, kicks Paths of Glory off with an admittedly less - than - engrossing stretch, as the movie boasts (or suffers from) a somewhat talky first act that doesn't contain much in the way of compelling elements - although, by that same token, it's clear that the film benefits substantially from Kubrick's stellar directorial choices and a host of above - average performances.

Fuglsig's feature debut is ultimately less an action movie and more a procedural, one in which incremental gains and minimal casualties are as much as can be hoped for.

You've never heard of her much less even care why there's a movie about her?

The less - than - enthralling vibe is compounded by a narrative that is, to put it mildly, rather disjointed, with the almost total lack of an entry point holding the viewer at arms length for much of the movie's opening 45 minutes.

This movie reminds me a lot of Waiting... although it seems much less mean - spirited, somehow.

The movie is never less than entertaining, but it fails to satisfy — it gives us too little of too much.

Finally available on a remastered DVD, the movie looks better than ever - and while much of the extra material is less than compelling, the video commentary more than makes up for it.

There are other two - faced cops who seem to be in a much less inspired movie.

The movie aspires to be more than that, only to reveal how much less than that it really is.

You know one of the biggest problems with horror movies is nowadays, and perhaps this has even gone farther than, say, the last 5 years, and that is the fact that some of these movies do not have enough interesting material in the script to fill out one hour of screen time, much less 90 minutes of it.

It's never fun to see a movie intended for wide release have to settle for much less.

That's more than enough material for a ten hour miniseries, much less a two hour movie like this one.

And, honestly, Washington doesn't even give the best performance in the MOVIE much less of the year.

Like the required - viewing slide show, the home movie is, and I think we are all agreed on this, of limited interest to family members, much less the general public.

«In this day and age, getting the theatrical experience, it's hard to get people to go see the movie, and much less a three hour and ten minute, two - part character movie,» Benson says.

The nature of Brian's disability is unclear he refers to himself as «brain damaged,» and Larry addresses him much less kindly but he exhibits symptoms consistent with lovable - movie - disabled syndrome.

Yet it's hard to place too much fault on the direction of a movie that feels less like an exercise in filmmaking than in careful brand management.

At a running time of close to two hours, Trading Places inevitably winds up feeling like too much of a good thing - with the movie's less - than - enthralling third act the most obvious victim of its overtly flabby sensibilities.

Not a movie so much as extended takes edited together (by no less than 3 credited editors) of improvised scenes from previous characters in another Judd Apatow movie.

Although Hector and the Search for Happiness is a fable in much the same way as the Walter Mitty movies are, the disparity between its base reality and its imaginary have less of an impact than maybe they should, but the use of Pegg in such a different role makes up for a lot.

But I'd be surprised if the Duffers recently watched «E.T.,» which is a much stranger and less homogenous movie than the one we tend to remember.

Suddenly I'm taking this movie much, much less seriously than I did before (which I didn't think was possible), and that mindset is generally conducive to me enjoying a film more.

This American version of Park Chan - Wook's Korean thriller is Lee's most exciting movie since «Inside Man» — not a masterpiece by any stretch, but a lively commercial genre picture with a hypnotic, obsessive quality, and an utter indifference to being liked, much less approved of.

He talks about how his reasons for joining Starfleet were much less heroic and proud as his late father, wracked it seems with more self - doubt than we've seen before; perhaps facing down Khan and almost dying quelled some of the hubris that led to his recklessness in both previous movies.

Personal Shopper should certainly have made the list over something like Get Out (much less a «costume movie» than Billboards), but I guess they have short memories.

Much of this movie follows the quiet child as he tries to establish himself in a new environment that is less hospitable than the walls of his of own home.

Again, less movies makes these choices so much easier.

Fleeting postcard images of Rome's landmarks fade behind a movie with little substance, much less an adequate amount of cognitive cohesion.

The more OCD among us here at Playlist Towers find it a source of constant aggravation that release dates vary so much from territory to territory, and festivals often get premieres a full 18 - or - so months before a film gains a proper U.S. release — making a cut - and - dry list of any given year's movies less science than art.

The movie barely even identifies them, much less introduces them.

Adapted from a 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh, who has a cameo in the movie as a drug dealer, Trainspotting was created by the same team that turned out the much less interesting Shallow Grave: producer Andrew Macdonald, director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, lead actor Ewan McGregor, and the same cinematographer, production designer, and editor.

However, from the arrival of Rey onwards, the film attempts to juxtapose into this dark universe something of the buddy movie, albeit, in a much less frivolous manner than in pictures such as Midnight Run and 48 Hours.

I walked in expecting a movie version of «God of War 3» for the ps3 (with a much less interesting protagonist, sure), and that's pretty much what I got!

Director José Padilha took the stage after that footage to discuss his new movie, including some talk about the future threat of drones and robotics technology used in war and law enforcement, as he described a remake that may have much less to do with the original than we had expected.

Zoolander and the gang have mostly ossified into pullstring See»n Says, though to encore the greatest hits of a fifteen - year - old movie whose footprint on popular culture has long since dissipated is to masturbate, really, and the celebrity cameos — about the same number as the previous film's, but much more elaborately integrated this time around — feel no less onanistic.

The premise is interesting enough to bring me into this film, but somehow the director gets bogged down with the problem of inserting too much ridiculous blood and gore into every scene that it becomes less than a mediocre movie.

It's risible that The Train Robbers would be part of a conversation with movies like The Wild Bunch and McCabe & Mrs. Miller, much less a box set.

20th Century Fox debuted the first trailer for its Freddie Mercury drama «Bohemian Rhapsody» to much hype from movie lovers and Queen fans (the YouTube video has over 1 million views in less than seven hours).

A new Paul Thomas Anderson movie is always a big deal, much less one that would be a reunion between the filmmaker and his There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day - Lewis (and would turn out to be the thespian's swan song).