Sentences with phrase «on film in recent memory»

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The screenplay by Alan Zweibel and Andrew Scheinman packs more on - target social satire than any film in recent memory, and zesty performances keep it clicking along at a rapid pace.

Based on American folk tales, the film is one of the most unnerving movies in recent memory.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writeIn A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writein recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

Instead, Duran is depicted as maybe the most unsympathetic on - screen boxer in recent memory, and I give the film extra points for that approach.

All the push and pull on your senses ratchets up until the film spirals into madness and complete horror, the finale as intense as any horror seen in recent memory.

After a recent screening in the suburbs of Chicago, Cromwell took part in an audience Q&A (which I had the privilege of moderating) that saw him expounding on subjects ranging from the film and his performance to the Bush family to memories of his first on - screen nude scene.

Characters pop in and out of the story with little explanation; others yell and fight with each other for no reason; and Anna Paquin (who plays one of the most annoying film characters in recent memory) simply isn't a good enough actor to carry the whole thing on her shoulders.

«12 Strong» uses on screen text more than any film in recent memory.

Check out our chat below for some insights on the creation of one of the most bizarre, yet highly entertaining films in recent memory:

As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time in recent memory, and possibly ever, that films by African - American directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place spot.

Based on a highly selective and unscientific sampling of opinions on the Croisette, the general consensus is that while this may be a milestone 70th - anniversary year for the Festival de Cannes, it's been a disappointing set of films overall, with one of the weaker competition slates in recent memory.

The film is based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a freeman kidnapped into slavery, and Nyong» o's performance as Patsey, a young slave who's become the object of obsession for sadistic cotton plantation Master Edwin Epps, played by Michael Fassbender, is easily one of the most arresting acting debuts in recent memory.

To the Wonder Rated R for some sexuality / nudity Available on DVD and Blu - ray Terrence Malick's Tree of Life was one of my favorite films in recent memory, so I was excited to see how he would follow it up with his latest project about love and loss that takes place in my home state of Oklahoma.

Whether or not it is designed as an allegory of modern Russia, no film in recent memory has examined the growing emptiness of human relationships with such expressive force as Andrey Zvyagintsev's («Leviathan») Loveless, a heart wrenching drama about a couple on the brink of divorce whose emotional neglect of their son leads to devastating...

The film delivers one of the most organic takes on claustrophobia in recent memory — giving a thorough and wholly believable explanation for Montse's agoraphobia.

This is the second film in recent memory to take an unlikely source and modernize it for today's audience, but unlike I Think I Love My Wife, this Steve Carr (Rebound, Daddy Day Care) update removes all of the wit and cleverness of the original, then beefs it up with stupid sight gags, terrible characterizations, and a plethora of scenes of «fall on your ass» slapstick that was already old back when the original film was released in 1948.

Potentially taking on his most significant film in recent «memory», Deadline reports that Sean Bean and...

Tom Hunter's recent film, A Palace for Us, weaves together memories of older residents who grew up on the Woodberry Down estate in Hackney, east London.

A generous hint of his direction could be seen in the 2012 Biennial (then hailed by New York Times critic Roberta Smith as «one of the best Whitney Biennials in recent memory»), which included such unforgettable moments as Werner Herzog's presentation of drawings by Hercules Segers intermixed with filmed performances by the Dutch avant - garde cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger; Dawn Kasper's performative residency in a ramshackle studio of her own creation on the museum's third floor; and the transformation of the entire fourth floor into a long stage for dance, most memorably Michelson's highly concentrated, multipart «Devotion Study # 1 — The American Dancer.»

Five films from 2009 to 2016 representing the artist's cross-platform thinking will be shown in the gallery, drawing from a diverse range of approaches in her artistic practice, from her intensely haptic works that involve fluids and stains of all sorts, to her more recent ruminations on film and memory.