It's streaming online and it's one of the best and most
overlooked films of the year.
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Not exact matches
This
year's closing night
film of the
Overlook Film Festival was the highly anticipated feature debut by Ari Aster, Hereditary.
Look to this
film for it's powerful performances and beautiful scenery; the story may be a bit lacking for some, and it's likely this will become more obvious on repeat viewings; however it's more than easy to
overlook simplicity for the sake
of some
of the
year's most provocative performances.
The release
of The Kite Runner was held over into the New
Year after originally being slated for Boxing Day, and for once this decision seems sound — competition for attention among the major releases may have meant this remarkably moving
film was
overlooked by most
of those who hadn't read the Khaled Hosseini novel.
In my opinion it's one
of the most
overlooked and underrated
films of the
year.
It's a coup for a
film that only got five Golden Globe nominations, and has generally been
overlooked in the
year's various critics» prizes in favour
of Boyhood, Birdman and others.
Overlooked: Jo Yeong - wook's soundtrack for The Handmaiden is one
of the
year's biggest, fullest, and most memorable — guiding the
film gracefully through its tonal shifts, giving the movie's emotions an extra orchestral charge.
This is the 25th
year of the SXSW Film Festival, and I took a look at what makes this fest unique from many others, with its longtime emphasis on discovery, female filmmakers, comedy and
films that get
overlooked elsewhere.
Overlooked: Looking just at the list
of 85 foreign - language
films accepted for Academy Awards consideration this
year, the most glaring omission is Paul Verhoeven's antagonistic button - presser Elle — an even more uncomfortable yuk-fest than Toni Erdmann.
That was a gritty and powerful
film but here, both
of them have excelled themselves, in one
of the
years most criminally
overlooked films.
The union is not entirely fruitful in Lanthimos» new psychological horror, The Killing
of a Sacred Deer, but if you can
overlook the pretention, tedium and in - your - face classical score, you'll discover one
of the most hypnotically creepy and Kubrickian
films of the
year.
Members
of the Boston Online Film Critics Association unite to recap the group's top ten
films of the
year,
overlooked gems and (finally!)
But in a
year of major animated
films, it feels like Sgt. Stubby is going to get
overlooked.
Anne Brodie: 45
Years is one
of my favourite
films of the
year but I fear it will be
overlooked in awards season by strong
films like The Revenant, Joy and Hateful Eight.