Sentences with phrase «only issue with the film»

My only issue with the film is that it felt a little too much like the Swedish films.

Not exact matches

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If there is any issue to be taken with the film, it's that it only seems to skim the surface.

As with Wonder Woman last year, Black Panther is not only is a kick - ass superhero film, it uses the platform to address deeper issues, in this case racism, still - lingering colonial attitudes towards Africa, the role of science and technology in improving the lives of the disadvantaged, and what it means to be a leader.

Issues regarding pacing and structural tightness are among the more considerable in this film, which promises to be rather extensive as a biopic, only to succumb to anything from repetitious filler, - at its worst with the forceful and recurrent insertion of a recital of Oscar Wilde's own short story «The Selfish Giant» - to meandering material whose being backed by steady directorial storytelling by Brian Gilbert leads to moderate bland spells.

Not only is this film elegantly shot, with a gorgeous sense both of internal textures and wide - open spaces, but it also features knockout performances from an especially fine cast while exploring serious issues from a...

If we can say that the 48th New York Film Festival offered films that were for the most part concerned with social issues, we certainly can not accuse the selection committee of putting together a one - note program, or of being restricted only to socially conscious films produced within the traditions of film realism.

Fox issued the film on disc in December of 2002, but as is not uncommon for family films, it was treated with little regard, receiving a fullscreen and dubbed - only presentation and being accompanied by no bonus features.

Later, Dev Patel takes over the role of Saroo, and it's a jarring transition, not only because the little boy is now a man, but because the lyrical nature of the film transforms into a standard «issue movie with stars» kind of thing.

My only real issue with the BD treatment of the second and third films is that, similar to Warner's recent Blu - ray version of Forbidden Planet, shots containing multiple VFX elements have been severely noise - reduced to counteract the degenerative effects of optical compositing.

With my extreme love for this film, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the only real issue I could find with it was that the middle seemed slightly drawn With my extreme love for this film, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the only real issue I could find with it was that the middle seemed slightly drawn with it was that the middle seemed slightly drawn out.

Shyamalan understands too well his own formula and with Signs, his third overtly supernatural film after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he displays an unbecoming self - consciousness that renders his ostensible subject allegorical subtext, with his own favourite issues (the father / son dynamic, the comic book spirituality) the only reason for the film's existence.

My only real issues with the film came towards the middle half and the very end.

The score is the only thing I have issue with on this film.

Gary Oldman makes the iconic role of George Smiley his own, but he's about the only thing in this bleak film that I have no real issue with.

There are a few things to like about the movie, mostly in the way the two lead characters interact with each other and how the film isn't afraid of being what can only be considered offensive to some in terms of the issue of disability.

Howard was only brought in when the original directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller of 21 Jump Street and Lego Movie fame, were dropped from the film after Lucasfilm took issue with the tandem's freewheeling style, which included lots of improvisation.

One of the other glaring issues the film suffers from is that it feels very two dimensional with only a few scenes near the beginning that actually implement the use of 3D.

The jury only wishes that German feature films would portray burning social issues and events with a similar lightness of touch and craftsmanship.

-RRB-, only every now and then spicing things up with the way he frames Gerda painting from behind the canvas, there is not much to distract from the issues at the core of the film.

And with Tom Hooper behind the camera shooting things in the most pedestrian way possible (a hallmark of his after films like The King's Speech and Les Miserables), only every now and then spicing things up with the way he frames Gerda painting from behind the canvas, there is not much to distract from the issues at the core of the film.

Issues surrounding the real - life 1970 plane crash that killed most of the Marshall University football team are explored in only the most cliched manner in this disappointing film, which is filled with even more overwrought dialogue and simplistic messages than the typical sports film.

The film will be a nice switch up of all the big dramas (and Star Wars) this December and will hopefully provide us with not only the humor they showed us, but also a cool look into the issues between 2007 - 2010 and how it's affecting our lives today.

Really the only issue I had with the film is its ending.

In fact, we have to say that our main (only) real issue with the film was that we wanted more: Jodorowsky's presence is like a gently hallucinogenic and instantly addicting drug, and 90 minutes of it just isn't enough.

The first section of the film is an expositional wonder, as not only are the main characters (including Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn), Republican poobah Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), radical abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) and various members of the White House - hold, among others) introduced and motivated, but the political issues involved are explained with a detail, clarity and respect for the audience's intelligence that's extremely rare in a Hollywood film.

Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard) struggles with a passion for acting hampered by a disapproving and controlling father («That»70s Show»'s Kurtwood Smith), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke, whose only credible role before this was as the lead in the bizarre sci - fi family film, Explorers) suffers from confidence issues and parents who don't seem to care about him, Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen) has a bit of a wild streak and wants to break free from the school he feels entrapped by.

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The issues that it only flirted with in the earlier part of the film.

The act of doubling is among the work's central conceits; contending not only with issues of material and visual replication, but also with the duplicative nature of film itself.

Working with film and still images she has developed a language, over the last ten years or so, which not only reflects her own history and background but connects to key issues in the wider world.