Sentences with phrase «other average films»

There are many other average films that deserve sequels in order to be improved upon, but instead they decided to milk a story that had already been milked far too many times.

Not exact matches

There's similarly little doubt that the film benefits substantially from the above - average efforts of its various stars, with Hemsworth and Brühl's stand - out work complemented by a supporting cast that includes, among others, Stephen Mangan, Christian McKay, and Olivia Wilde.

Take away The Wind Rises, which was briefly screened in 2013 only to qualify for awards (which it did, collecting an Oscar nomination for best animated film), and Disney's 2013 average drops to 53.4 (the studio's lowest average since 2010), though that was still higher than four other major distributors last year.

Even including the studio's few misfires (The Fifth Estate, Delivery Man, The Lone Ranger), Disney grossed on average more than $ 170 million per release in the U.S. alone; no other studio averaged over $ 100 million per film.

Of course the other six films have all been below average, with the exception of one (Dig Two Graves which I enjoyed, but wouldn't call a very good movie).

Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video review to provide context via clips of the film is a step beyond what the vast majority of populist or even academic film criticism has done in the past, let alone other related films in the genre and in the director's oeuvre for context.

However, I've yet to hear much personal discussion on it from anyone other than the critics and it would seem that Farhadi has still some way to go before he gets the recognition he deserves among your average film enthusiast.

Men critics in areas other than film wrote an average of 6 film reviews whereas women with this job title wrote an average of 3 film reviews.

Not only are women outnumbered as film critics, staff writers, other types of critics, and freelancers, women also review fewer films on average than men.

Others, like Mohicans, Collateral, and The Insider, all flirt with average IMDb ratings close to the 8.0 range that houses nearly every Nolan film.

Other ’79 films remembered with more - than - average fondness include: Nicholas Meyer's Time after Time, Ettore Scola's Down and Dirty, John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's Northern Lights, Arthur Hiller's (and Andrew Bergman's) The In - Laws, Diane Kurys's Peppermint Soda, Sydney Pollack's The Electric Horseman, Oldrich Lipsky's Nick Carter in Prague, or Dinner for Adele, Jim Henson and James Frawley's The Muppet Movie, and Don Sharp's The Thirty - nine Steps.

I Confess (Blu - ray) Release date: Feb. 16 Details: 1953, Warner Archive Collection Rated: Not rated The lowdown: This thriller was not one of Alfred Hitchcock's better movies, even though an average Hitchcock film is better than efforts by many other directors.

He says that an average subtitled film will take 85 percent of its box - office gross out of theaters in only eight North American cities, and will never play at all in most of the others.

As such, the effects workload wouldn't have been any higher than the average blockbuster — of course there would be heavy CGI elements, but probably far less than something like, say, Disney's other forthcoming tentpoles «John Carter» and «Oz: The Great and Powerful» — and the fantastical elements, at least in Elliot and Rossio's draft (Justin Haythe has since come on board to rewrite) aren't massively prominent, the film being more of a straight action Western.

It did only open in 583 theaters, so you can't compare its opening grand total to the other wide releases, but you can compare its per theater average and the fact that the film only managed to post $ 1,458 per theater is weak no matter how limited or wide the opening.

Whitfield Cook, on the other hand, is a bit of a cliché charmer and then Danny Huston puts on an average performance, leading to one of the film's sole faults, the fact that Alma seems too smart to fall for Whitfield, even for a moment.

As a result, the feel - good film ranks among Ratner's better offerings, even if by all other standards it is evidently average.

The previous per - theater - average record for a live - action film actually came from earlier this year when another Anderson, Wes, saw his «Moonrise Kingdom» average $ 130,749 from 4 screens, which topped «Dreamgirls,» «Brokeback Mountain» and «Precious,» the only other live - action films to find averages north of $ 100,000 (a dozen or so animated Disney films have much higher averages thanks to massive special screenings they'd hold before wide release — «The Lion King» is still # 1 with a whopping $ 793,377).

What starts as a raunchy thrill ride takes sudden turns of emotional depth which will supplement the experience for the average moviegoers who can't grasp gags which come at other super hero films» expenses.