Sentences with phrase «of observational comedy»
«Plays like a whip - smart, reflective, and uncompromised bit of observational comedy that's akin to laughing off a hellacious hangover.»
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The Meyerowitzes all speak with the wit and observational detail that one might expect from the screenwriter of such whip - smart comedies as Mistress America and Kicking and Screaming.
Dotted with honest observational drama and comedy, it makes a curious spiritual sibling to Lady Bird (another coming - of - age movie and another female director's solo debut), though it's considerably more sanguine.
This riotous observational comedy stars the likes of Adam Scott, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Chris O'Dowd and Maya Rudolph.
In While We're Young (released a few months ago; now on Blu - ray / DVD) he heightened observational humor into depth - charged comedy - drama or satire - drama, in the manner of Paul Mazursky (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Blume in Love) or Barry Levinson (Diner, What Just Happened).
Echoing his witty writing style, Bill Bryson's memoir of his trek up the Appalachian Trail is adapted as a gently amusing comedy that combines big landscapes with sharp observational humour.
Overrated Damsels In Distress Not nearly as clever as the film, or its adherents, seem to think, Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress is a tone - deaf attempt to change gears from the observational comedy of his early films to a more stylized, absurdist mode.
She's been lumped into the fast and loose mumblecore movement with organic, naturalistic comedies like «Humpday,» but she's also matured well beyond that delineation with the observational exploration of family and lovers in the insightful, sharp and keen, «Your Sister's Sister.»
Force Majeure is an observational comedy about the role of the male in modern family life.
As is the case with so many of Payne's films, the comedy here is mostly observational, with gentle sight gags and inventive camera work and stagecraft drawing viewers almost immediately into an alternate but entirely believable world.
Brooks's barbed wit and confident direction drive Lost in America, an iconic example of his restless comedies about insecure characters searching for satisfaction in the modern world that established his unique comic voice and transformed the art of observational humor.