Sentences with phrase «nearly everything in the film»

Furthermore, nearly everything in the film has already taken place and has been widely reported by news outlets.

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To forestall such questions, and distract us from the film's core emptiness, director Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1, Wicker Park) and his crew very nearly art - direct everything into the dirt: The wallpaper in ordinary apartment buildings is a catalogue of optical illusions, and one fleeting overhead shot of a parking lot features an array of vehicles so expertly color - coordinated they could be photoshopped into a Kelly - Moore spread.

In the same period, only twice has the NBR winner gone on to win Best Picture: No Country for Old Men and Slumdog Millionaire — both films ended up sweeping nearly everything.

There is so much money on the line with this film — especially considering that parent studio Lionsgate bid a reluctant farewell to the «Saw» franchise only a little over a year ago, and could use another cash cow — and yet nearly everything about its execution flies in the face of standard Hollywood protocol.

If the film is trying to convey the importance of the main character, nearly everything is at least somewhat significant in the life story of that person.

Everything in the new film plays exactly as it did in the film from nearly 40 years ago, with a few contemporary wrinkles thrown in by Van Sant and Joseph Stephano, scripter of the original.

The latest film from writer - director Leigh Whannell (Insidious and Saw franchises), centers on Grey Trace, a technophobe in a utopian near - future when computers control nearly everything a» from cars to crime - surveillance a» who is paralyzed in a freak mugging.

It's nearly everything else in the film that simply doesn't work.

But while there's greatness in the nonsense and non sequiturs of soulful films like Spirited Away and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya, which touch on nearly everything that really matters in human existence, Sunada's goals seem far more modest.

Janney had what is, essentially, a temporary face - lift — with tape applied to her temples and neck — masked with a gunmetal - gray wig that is, like nearly everything else in the film, so terrible because it is drawn precisely from real life.

The film absolutely lived up to this assessment, delivering a crowd - pleasing rowdy time so bonkers in its gore and offensive humor that it tops nearly everything about the beloved Full Moon franchise.

Clocking in at nearly three hours in length, it's hard not to come away feeling like the film could have been much shorter and still delivered on everything it needed to from a story standpoint.

But the point is that after nearly a decade of not having watched these films and half - a-decade of not giving a damn about the franchise, that I can recall these visuals better than nearly everything in a movie I saw less than 3 weeks ago speaks to the power of Lucas and co.'s craftsmanship as well as the hollowness of TFA.