Sentences with phrase «piece of film criticism»

Mankiewicz was the subject of the first piece of film criticism Godard ever published; Godard also expressed his admiration for this very writerly filmmaker as recently as the 1990 Nouvelle vague.

Since more links are only considered a good thing around here, here's Matt Singer's latest Criticwire Survey, asking participants for the best piece of film criticism of 2012.

The Jeanne Dielman essay, Farber's final piece of film criticism, starts off with a thrilling survey of Seventies art cinema, from Celine and Julie Go Boating to Beware of a Holy Whore.

So how do you review what is, in essence, a piece of film criticism?

Not exact matches

Anyone familiar with the more intellectual forms of pop criticism (whether of music or film) will recognize it as a parody of the Rolling Stone critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the piece is the real thing:

The film reviews are concise, thoughtful, and well - rounded pieces of pop film criticism — especially those by Todd McCarthy.

The Congress is a brilliant piece of animation and a clever piece of cinematic film criticism but in order to convince it needed to be either more humane or more intellectually rigorous.

These people also read the Pauline Kael's and the Andrew Sarris's and publishers would publish very long pieces of thoughtful film criticism all over the place.

Among the certainties in the world of film criticism — there will be a series of pieces bemoaning critics» inability to stop a terrible summer film from becoming a blockbuster; Armond White will often stake out a position in opposition to many of his fellow critics; movies about middle - aged men having their mid-life crises sorted out by women well out of their league will always receive mostly kind notices; etc. — there's one that stands above all others.

The extent to which a parent is able to fulfill this obligation is the extent to which The Pagemaster is worthwhile; using this film as an eighty - minute babysitter - cum - opiate negates any possible positive effect conferred by the picture — raising the question, clearly, of how best to approach criticism of the piece.

But now, «boring» is hot, at least in overheated Interwebular film criticism circles, since the publication of Dan Kois» New York Times Magazine piece called «Eating Your Cultural Vegetables,» in which he says:

It didn't affect the Oscar nominations, since voting closed prior to its publication — but it is a potent piece of writing that went beyond criticism, calling into judgment the voting bodies that have heaped so much praise on the film already.

«Jurassic Park» remains an essential piece of my childhood, serving as a reminder that film criticism doesn't always have to be cynical or sardonic.

More film criticism that embraces the vast grey areas of artwork: fewer woke trend think pieces and more nuance.

Unfortunately, however, the biggest criticism leveled at the new Doctor Strange trailer is that some of the set - pieces shown off are reminiscent of two of the most culturally recognizable films of the past decades, Christopher Nolan's Inception and Lana and Lily Wachowski's The Matrix.

And yes, sometimes the similarties are too strong to make Vice anything over than a piece of entertainment, but it is filmed keenly enough to avoid most of my criticisms.