Sentences with phrase «nadir with»

Silence: Martin Scorsese's downward trajectory reaches its nadir with this plodding and generally unwatchable drama, with the absurdly overlong running time (160 minutes!)

The Happening, starring Zooey Deschanel and Mark Wahlberg, prompted the New Republic to assert,» [A] n astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined,» though Shyamalan's career eventually reached its nadir with the infamous Last Airbender (2010) about a 12 - year - old boy who provides the last hope of restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos.

Found - footage horror reaches a possible nadir with this ridiculously silly, ostensibly handheld record of a high school play haunted by the ghosts of previous productions.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

Commercially — and probably artistically — Tarantino hit his nadir with 2007's Death Proof.

For the most part, however, the actor's last two decades as a performer were distinguished by a steady stream of cheap, threadbare horror films, reaching a nadir with such fare as Hillbillies in a Haunted House (1967).

That era hit its nadir with Sani Abacha's fist - of - mail tyranny, his brazen raid on the public till and the near - unravelling of the Nigerian military.

With pre-season not being the best, a 1 - 0 defeat at Walsall the nadir with unrest amongst the fans, the optimism which budded at the start of the month looked to be withering.

Sure that no one could trump (sorry) Mitt Romney's wooden failure with Latinos, we have watched Trump sink to an unimaginable nadir with our community.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, at its nadir, Canada's GDP fell 5.4 % — pretty good compared with the 5.7 % drop in the U.S., and awesome stacked against Germany's 14.4 % slide or Japan's 15.2 % tumble.

This is the nadir of Justin's career, but somehow, he'd follow it with his zenith.

LSU's offensive regression reached its nadir (we think) with a 200 - yard, six - point output versus Florida in Gainesville.

Combine this with the suspension, the unfortunate Jones illness and I start to wonder if this is the nadir for Shaka.

Arsenal perhaps reached their nadir this season with a terrible performance at St Mary's on New Years day that saw them lose ground on their top four rivals.

With the relegation and the manner in which it came, and the ongoing talks about a Financial Fair Play fine, QPR can't get much lower — it seems incredible to be saying that again, they seem to specialise in nadirs — but a cathartic Saturday without pressure could be a stepping stone toward a fresh start in the Championship.

That solitary win, a laboured 1 - 0 FA Cup victory against League Two side Plymouth, has been surrounded by draws and defeats, with the run reaching a nadir on Saturday as Jürgen Klopp's side went down to a shock 3 - 2 defeat to relegation - threatened Swansea...

His nadir as a role model for fatherhood probably comes in the Empire Strikes Back, when he slices off his son's hand with a lightsaber just because Luke refuses to sign up for the family business (Evil Incorporated).

A ten - hour flight with a cranky toddlers whose ears hurt may well be the nadir of our family travels, the only upside is that when you've hit rock - bottom, there's nowhere to go but up.

A child grows up with a critical domineering father and fragile mother, rejects the family's wealth and power, turns to drugs to heal the inner wounds, achieves fame and fortune, and hits the nadir during a midlife divorce.

«It's simply a reflection of the fact that the subway system is deteriorating and everybody who uses it knows it,» said Richard Ravitch, the former MTA chairman widely credited with helping rescue the system from its previous nadir a generation ago.

Labour were at an electoral nadir in 2009, and so this year they can expect to see their vote share pick up sufficiently with their national revival.

It's way down the nadir, from those lofty heights of 2007, when former CJN, Muhammadu Lawal Uwais, beatified the NJC with that singular honour of recommending the electoral chief, a power his Electoral Review Panel wanted taken from the president.

It would be a grimly positive thing to see this moment, with Corbyn visibly on the ropes, as some kind of nadir for the party.

The send - off stands in stark contrast with the rank - and — file turning its collective back on Mayor de Blasio at the funeral of Ramos and Liu — perhaps the nadir of Bratton's term.

OMPS is a three - part instrument: a nadir mapper that maps ozone, SO2 and aerosols; a nadir profiler that measures the vertical distribution of ozone in the stratosphere; and a limb profiler that measures aerosols in the upper troposphere, stratosphere and mesosphere with high vertical resolution.

Joint projects with Russian nuclear scientists began to ebb soon after President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, and reached a nadir last October when Russia suspended an agreement with the United States on nuclear R&D cooperation and terminated another on retooling Russian research reactors to no longer run on weapons - grade uranium fuel.

In nonhuman primates that received ALN - TTR01 in a single dose of 1.0 mg per kilogram, the mean percent transthyretin knockdown at the nadir level (7 days after administration) was approximately 50 %, with recovery to the baseline level by day 28 (Fig.

That calibration enabled the researchers to detect high reflectance deposits consistent with surface ice in three large craters for which only off - nadir detections were available.

The isocaloric high - protein diet led to no significant change in nadir plasma concentrations, peak plasma concentrations, or AUC values for the 24 - h leptin profiles obtained during CRC2 compared with those obtained during visit CRC1.

Eventually a little pretentious - with Anjelica Huston's cameo the nadir - but if you love oaters, it's just worth the time.

This nadir of equal - opportunity raunch forces viewers to spend time with a needy yeast - infested adult who doesn't know how to go on a date with a man; her grating, neurotic monster of a best friend; and a third, random younger chick, who's crazy - upset about some tedious thing that happened with her boyfriend.

Silent screen cowboy Buddy Roosevelt reached perhaps the nadir of his career with this film, in which he plays a deputy marshal trailing a gang of claim jumping murderers lead by pudgy Olin Francis.

The Great Depression is at its nadir and the Banks kids are grown - ups now (played by Ben Whishaw and Emily Mortimer), with children of their own.

The 62nd Awards were arguably the nadir for Oscar, with the twee Driving Miss Daisy beating a strong field including Born on the Forth of July, Dead Poet's Society, My Left Foot, and my pick, Field of Dreams to Best Picture.

A.O. Scott at The New York Times slammed the film's «pretense that this fantasia of misogyny is really a feminist fable of empowerment,» while Sady Doyle at The Atlantic declared that director «Zack Snyder's gooey mix of fetish gear, rape fantasies, and girls - with - guns action sequences represents the nadir of a long, slow, steady decline in action films starring women.»

It is listless and painful, with fakey gore and dialogue that reaches nadir even for an auteur never known for his pen.

The results with this year's «Rock The Kasbah,» penned by Glazer and directed by Barry Levinson, are marginally better, but not by all that much: It's an utterly forgettable and ineffectual «comedy» that's more reminiscent of Murray's mid -»90s nadir («Larger Than Life,» «The Man Who Knew Too Little,» et al) than the more critically adored stuff he's been making this century.

Or the other one, the notorious one, the nadir of Clayburgh's career, in which she straps on a dildo and just can't seem to get it off, not even with a butcher knife.

If Jia Zhang - ke's A Touch of Sin and Claire Denis's Bastards represented the best of the films with violence and crime on their minds, Nicolas Winding Refn's overwrought and pretentious Only God Forgives represented the nadir.

With all the schlock that has dotted Nicolas Cage's filmography during the past decade, the nadir might be this hilariously inept dystopian thriller from Canada.

Halfway through the year, The Neon Demon kindly established the nadir of 2016 cinema for me and with just three months to go, I am doubtful I'll see anything worse this year.

There's an entire thread elided from Hill's picture centred around violence in «old» Earth cartoons — a conversation that would have fit snugly in the mostly - animated Event Horizon, as it turns out, dealing as the movie does with the question of existential representation in a year, 1997 *, at the peak of our digital revolution, with The Fifth Element on the one side and a pinnacle (or nadir) of sorts, Titanic, on the other.

The real nadir comes when the paedophile actually allows Matthew a face - to - face meeting with the now teenage Cassandra: he sets up a meet in a remote and snowy spot.

The softened America at its nadir - with undemanding schools, unpunished crime, rampant welfare, a feckless army under a timid national policy in Vietnam - is the setting for Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet of 1970 and Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone of 1973.

The last five quarters have not been kind to ACLS, with the company generating substantial and increasing operating losses in each, reaching a $ 22.8 M nadir for the September quarter (see the Q3 10Q here).

This merrily continued, with the share price reaching a nadir of EUR 3.25 in Aug - 11 — amounting to almost a cumulative EUR 1.2 billion loss in market cap — actually in excess of the lawsuit total!?

10) Home prices continue to fall, and estimates to the nadir (cycle low) range between 0 - 50 %, with 10 - 20 % being the most common.

Unfortunately, by the time the puppy is old enough to start to play with other dogs, his immunity against the more common and serious canine diseases reaches an all - time nadir.

When you look at the in - game store and realize it would take well over $ 1000 to purchase a complete version of the game with every costume, character, and feature unlocked, it can feel like the absolute nadir of free - to - play game making.

Some of the minigames are more enjoyable than others, with the nadir being a racing game where it's particularly tough to keep your hovercart from floating right off the edge of the track.