Sentences with phrase «of awkward comedy»

It has a Larry David level of awkward comedy throughout that's subtle but effective.

Not exact matches

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Some of the comedy is awkward so that is why the movie isn't a comedic masterpiece.

The used - to - be-funny Adam Sandler plays some extraordinary guy in an inconsistent and unfunny movie that is filled with cheap comedy that sometimes doesn't make sense and tons of awkward product placement that just feels like you are watching

«Song For Marion» suffers from an awkward juxtaposition of comedy and drama and relies on a cliched story - line but its quality cast make it watchable.

They are both virgins, yet despite some awkward moments, this is no glib comedy of sexual innocence.

If one were to base one's judgment of David Schwimmer's talent on his low - key performance as the anxious, awkward but lovable paleontologist Ross on NBC's smash hit comedy Friends, one might never suspect that beneath the affable exterior lies a versatile, multi-talented actor and filmmaker.

Although it contains some memorably outrageous comedy moments, this movie (retitled The Brothers Grimsby for North America) is such an awkward combination of gross - out humour, violent action and sappy sentimentality that it never becomes a...

Awkward and tonally unsure, this gay - related cancer comedy still has glints of honest heartache.

Butterfield and Steinfeld share a charmingly awkward chemistry while Hawke and Emily Mortimer provide a majority of the film's comedy.

It's Superbad meets Zombieland as it's a good mix of awkward teenage coming - of - age comedy sprinkled with tons of blood and guts.

While not a home run, this comedy / drama might still be worth a look for fans of any of its charismatic stars (especially Slate and Kazan) and for those looking for a comedy that at least attempts to infuse darker elements in with its awkward laughs.

You and your companions can endure all of the painfully awkward comedy scraped straight from the bottom of the chuckle barrel.

For Tom Gormican, writer and director of That Awkward Moment, putting together a cast that could embody the ups and downs of a classic romantic comedy, while also remaining believable enough for the 20 - something audiences coming to see the film, was a daunting task.

In projects as varied as That Awkward Moment, We Are Your Friends, Dirty Grandpa, The Paperboy, and At Any Price, he's had opportunities to play all manners of comedy, drama, and romance, and he approaches it all with the same himbo blankness.

Critics, on the other hand, have been championing Issa Rae as a creative talent ever since her webseries Awkward Black Girl and there's a good chance they'll jump at the opportunity to award the show as a whole, especially since they chose another auteur-esque comedy last year, Master of None.

Within that career, you can see echoes of this year's knockouts: euphoric comedies of awkward maturation (Lukas Moodysson's We Are the Best!)

The film's misjudged intro relies heavily on knowledge of a particular British TV show, but if audiences persevere through this awkward opening, Chalet Girl makes for untaxing, light - hearted fun that lacks the pretensions and meanness that seems to be the current flavour of comedy.

Only the male director is constantly objectifying them, to the point where it strikes as an awkward attempt of men telling women how their comedy should be.

So his newest role — as one of three dudes navigating the NYC dating world in bro - mantic comedy That Awkward Moment, co-starring Miles Teller and Zac Efron — is a welcome departure.

The film does not become a comedy of errors, but there are more than a few awkward exchanges thanks to Churchill's interactions with supporting players such as Ben Mendelsohn as King George VI or Lily James as Elizabeth, Churchill's latest secretary.

From awkward interactions to fractured relationships, Lynn Shelton is a master at capturing modern day human comedies, frequently focusing on characters in a state of arrested development.

I explain about the nightmare story of Movie 43, the gross - out comedy that promised us a movie experience like never before and in reality, was an awkward two hours of watch - watching.

Resurrecting an old, abandoned Coen brothers script, this would - be black comedy is a total, depressing misfire, a baffling, awkward combination of nasty thrills and grim, ham - fisted social commentary.

The actor has sometimes been stuck in sophomoric and cartoonish roles in comedies geared towards twenty - somethings (Two Night Stand, That Awkward Moment) but here he finds a role deserving of his talents.

Although a few of the laughs land, particularly if you're into comedy of social embarrassment (like Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office), and the frank honesty and intimacy the three leads cultivate and offer each other in conversation is something we should embrace in male protagonists, That Awkward Moment flounders in the in - between of the two genres it attempts to fuse.

When: May 24th Why: After the somewhat awkward déjà vu of «The Hangover Part II,» there weren't very many people clamoring for a third chapter in the comedy series.

Something like the 2016 coming - of - age comedy The Edge of Seventeen, though entirely fictional, feels authentic in its nuanced, awkward, hilarious, heartbreaking portrayal of what it feels like to grow up.

Despite a couple of awkward moments, The Heretic is a thrillingly funny and satisfying comedy drama.

Runtime: 120 mins Director: Michael Showalter Writer: Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani Cast: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter Genre: Comedy Romance Tagline: An Awkward True Story Memorable Movie Quote: «We lost 19 of our best men.»

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Look, I'm all for lacing comedy with awkward silences, because well - timed awkward silences can be hilarious — and all things considered, they have a way of forcing audiences to confront the prejudices they harbour.

HBO's comedy series returns just after «Game of Thrones» season six debut, acting as an awkward palate cleanser to all that bloody fantasy violence.

Its awkward mix of high - concept comedy, magic (literalizing the walk - a-mile-in-someone-else's shoes cliché) and grating sentimentality would be off - putting coming from anyone, but from a director whose stock in trade to that point had been gentle dramedies, delivering human insights with a deft light hand?

Instead, the movie concentrates on these and a lot of sluggish physical comedy, including an awkward moment where Skiff tells Lem to put a cork somewhere down - there to protect from alien probing (although considering their lack of anything offensive down - there, I'm not sure where he expects him to stick it).

The comedy is as awkward and desperate as it needs to be for a film grounded in the complex reality of familial relationships were connections have become untethered.

Some of the jokes are just plain unsettling (there's a running joke about «child molesterers» — not a typo — that comes across as more unpleasant than amusing), but for every awkward and squirmy wisecrack there's a comedy goldmine (the cameo by Waititi as a local preacher is one of the funniest scenes in years).

The result is a well - meaning, socially awkward meditation on the comedy of disability.

A comedy with just as many moments of sadness, disaffection and humiliation as there are laughs, the film never shies away from awkward human strangeness.

On Oct. 9, HBO adds two more hard - to - pigeonhole half hours to its lineup with Divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church, and Insecure, starring Issa Rae (YouTube's Awkward Black Girl), who created the show with longtime producer (and host of Comedy Central's recently canceled Nightly Show) Larry Wilmore.

Carrell made the film after a string of solid supporting roles in similar ensemble - oriented comedies but before The Office established him a small screen star and plays the role as amiable if socially awkward, with an undercurrent of melancholy in his isolation from the rest of the world.

Or is it just a matter of her type of awkward, physical comedy being better off in a supporting role, like her Oscar - nominated role in BRIDESMAIDS?

In fact, most scenes of intended comedy tend either to come across as excessively awkward or to simply fall flat.

Crazy, Stupid, Love (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and coarse humor) Midlife crisis comedy about an awkward nerd (Steve Carell) just dumped by his adulterous wife (Julianne Moore) who transforms himself into a suave ladies man with the help of a shameless playboy (Ryan Gosling).

«The Office» co-writers Stupnitsky and Eisenberg give more workplace scenarios and awkward situations, but the level of comedy as akin to the lazy, halfhearted effort they put forth in their equally sophomoric Year One.

For our final series on The Overnight (a film I've lovingly recommended to many) I had the privilege of sitting down with both Jason and director Patrick Brice, whom I also spoke conducted a more in - depth one - on - one (and you can find that interview here) to talk awkward screenings, reaction cams, penis prosthetics, the infamous butthole paintings, cracking up on set, how to make a good comedy movie and, finally, whether to expect more Coconut Records.

He was marvelous in Neighbors as a preening frat boy, and emerged unscathed from the sex comedy That Awkward Moment, which criminally squandered a crop of young talents with great potential: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Imogen Poots and Mackenzie Davis.

Highlights include Eden, Mia Hansen - Løve's French DJ drama starring Greta Gerwig and Brady Corbet; Best of Enemies, Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon's doc about Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.'s legendary 1968 televised debates; Results, Andrew Bujalski's awkward comedy starring Cobie Smulders and Guy Pearce as personal trainers; Francois Ozon «s latest drama, The New Girlfriend; and What Happened, Miss Simone?

The actor has shown comedic promise in films like 17 Again and That Awkward Moment (even if the latter was a bit of a disappointment as a whole), but the former High School Musical star goes full tilt in this flick, showing he can run with the comedy bull that is Seth Rogen.

With the Duplass brothers producing, the series expectedly takes on the mumblecore auteur - siblings» dry, awkward tone and works as a kind of comedy of humiliation, to varying degrees of success.