Sentences with phrase «not film critics»

These movies are made for audiences, not film critics, which is why so few mainstream comedies play the film festival circuit.

Plus, these are not film critics, they are working professional, and most haven't had a chance to see all the films in contention before their ballots are due for the nominations.

I'm not a film critic right now, just a fan.

I «m not a film critic.

If I weren't a film critic and saw a press screening, this alone would have drawn my interest because he's LUKE - FRICKING - SKYWALKER for crying out loud!

Good morning, Mick: If you were not a film critic and saw fewer movies, what would be your criteria for choosing which movies to see?

Good morning, Paul: If I were not a film critic, I'd probably see four or five movies a week, but I'd rarely go to a movie theater.

Not exact matches

While Bay's films are hits with audiences grossing more than $ 4.6 billion dollars worldwide, they're not always loved by critics.

Pure Flix, the angelic film studio behind the God's Not Dead franchise, has never really been for the film critics.

I don't always talk to my pastor about movies I plan on watching, mostly because being a film critic prevents me from having much choice in the first place to a degree.

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

A film critic always hates to admit that he hasn't seen a film, so I was relieved when the movie turned out to...

These critics argued that it was not necessarily a successful film, but that to snub it would «make us look funny.»

A film critic always hates to admit that he hasn't seen a film, so I was relieved when the movie turned out to be Cinema Paradiso.

Typically film studios won't release their top films until late in the calendar year so the film will be fresh in the heads of both critics and voters.

I'm not a movie critic, although sometimes, when I'm deeply moved by a film, I wish I was.

On the other side are critics who have long disliked the film tax - credit idea since New York City is already viewed as a major film and TV hub that doesn't need to incentivize itself.

In other words, a movie's significance is decided by today's and tomorrow's film directors — not the critics.

Here's what I like, and I don't care what professional film critics say.

I don't see actresses wearing black to the major film critics awards.

It was on more critics top 10 lists than any other animated film by a mile, and much loved by viewers, how does it not get a nom?

This result is often difficult to classify, but as critic Stanley Crouch comments in the film, once you have heard Simone's voice you will not forget it.

Critic Consensus: The relentless immaturity of the humor is not a total handicap for this film, which features the consistently well - matched talents of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.

For National Public Radio and LA Theater Works Alma performed in the radio versions of Zoot Suit and Nilo Cruz's Pultizer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics opposite Jimmy Smits.As a 25 year member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) founded by Luis Valdez, she has appeared in landmark ETC productions of; Zoot Suit, both the film and play (1979 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Play); Corridos, both the TV version (1987 Peabody Award) and play; I Don't Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges; and Mummified Deer (Back Stage West «Honorable Mention» for her role as Mama Chu), all written and directed by Valdez.Ms.

But Variety critic Scott Foundas, who reviewed both the Toronto and Cannes editions, noted, «In all its versions The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is a film of marked ambition that turns out to know a fair bit about love and loss and the various ways in which we do and don't grow up to become our parents.»

Critics Consensus: The relentless immaturity of the humor is not a total handicap for this film, which features the consistently well - matched talents of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly.

Much of the (unwarranted) criticism of The Two Towers focussed on the idea that the film couldn't be taken on its own, with critics (wrongly) claiming that it didn't have a meaningful beginning and end.

But not even the joy of seeing Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston playing the evil Vilos Cohaagen was enough to prevent critics from labeling the film as dull.

The individual instalments of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, for instance, are perfectly successful films in whichever order you choose to view them - and it is interesting that the same critics who defended Kill Bill did not necessarily take the same line with Peter Jackson's work.

I can continue on but I don't recall enough of the film to speak about it with the lucidity you professional critics possess.

It does not exist to be appreciated artistically, or to be thematically dissected by critics and film historians.

Snowden may not be one of director Oliver Stone's best, but this is why I believe critics are hitting this film a little harder than it deserves.

The film isn't great, but it certainly isn't as bad as what many critics have said about the film.

Sure, this is all stuff kids will kindly overlook and only film critics will dissect, but it can't be denied that huge swaths of the film are just plain boring.

Critics Consensus: The Angry Birds Movie is substantially more entertaining than any film adapted from an app has any right to be — which may or may not be much of an endorsement.

Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an award for its screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.

Just three of the studio's 15 films received positive reviews from critics (and one of those, only by a nose), putting Universal in the bottom half among the major distributors in terms of quality — not surprising, given that its 2014 slate wasn't exactly deep in Oscar - worthy films.

Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse.

[VIDEO ESSAY] Widely trashed by a cabal of critics who didn't know a good film when they saw it, Jack Clayton's 1974 rendition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel beautifully captures its romantic essence and caustic social indictments.

Critic Consensus: Though the film stays true to the nature of the original cartoon, the script is disappointing and not funny.

Not only were global receipts down slightly compared to the previous year, but Fox was alone among the major studios in failing to record a green Metascore — that's right, not a single Fox film earned positive reviews from critics in 20Not only were global receipts down slightly compared to the previous year, but Fox was alone among the major studios in failing to record a green Metascore — that's right, not a single Fox film earned positive reviews from critics in 20not a single Fox film earned positive reviews from critics in 2013.

I'd be lying if I said that The Band's Visit isn't touching and uplifting and all those other audience - friendly emotions against which film critics are believed to religiously steel themselves.

Kubrick also takes the great risk of not explaining anything, which is one reason that a lot of people (critics included) are befuddled by this film.

Another studio that couldn't score with critics or moviegoers in 2013, Open Road managed only one positively reviewed film: Steven Soderbergh's swan song Side Effects.

They were also better than those of any other major studio, leaving Disney the only one of the seven majors to receive a grade higher than a C. Interestingly, Disney's three Marvel - related films (including Big Hero 6, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) were not just the studio's highest - grossing releases, but were also the highest - scoring Disney films with critics.

I really don't understand professional critics and what they look for when they rate a film.

Find out which films impressed critics... and which didn't.

Critics Consensus: Though the film stays true to the nature of the original cartoon, the script is disappointing and not funny.

An assessment of the film as part of a dissertational examination of Lawrence's contribution to comedic posterity and to African - American cultural history will surely note that the film was not pre-screened for critics in advance.