Sentences with phrase «poignant drama with»

It starts out as standard kid comedy fare a la Diary of a Wimpy Kid or How to Eat Fried Worms, but then unexpectedly snowballs into a poignant drama with weightier themes of life and death.

Supporting cast members Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones are equally good, and Lincoln mixes poignant drama with graceful humor and emotion.

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With its campy humor, poignant drama and potent scares, Primeval will appeal equally to adults and children.

Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.

Set in 2002, Greta Gerwig's semi-autobiographical coming - of - age drama takes a simple premise — a daughter's (Ronan) tumultuous relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf)-- and makes it universal with rapid - fire witticisms and poignant characterisations.

But he just makes it so darn affecting and poignant, avoiding all the clichés that go with this kind of blurry - eyed family drama», remarks Dustin Chang on his ScreenAnarchy review.

This poignant tale of grief, loss and societal alienation is directed with warmth and sensitivity by Sebastian Lelio, and is both powerful cultural statement and emotionally involving human drama.

But «In the Fade,» a German drama with melodramatic tendencies Kruger's poignant performance helps offset, starts with Kruger radiating happiness, during Katja's prison wedding to Nuri (Numan Acar), an incarcerated drug dealer in a Tony Montana white suit.

The feature films nominated for Best Film this year are «Frank» which gives an insight into the weird and wonderful world of the enigmatic musician; the gritty urban family drama of «Glassland»; the raw, moving and honest «I Used to Live Here»; the feel good true - life story of «Noble»; the poignant and sensitive exploration of mental health in «Patrick's Day», and the beautiful Irish animated fantasy «Song of the Sea»; Three of the Best Films also get nominations for Best Director; Lenny Abrahamson for «Frank»; Gerard Barrett «Glassland» and Terry McMahon for «Patrick's Day», with John Carney also in that category for the musical drama «Begin Again».

With a compelling mix of battle action and poignant drama, The Yellow Birds is an unforgettable movie whose power resonates long after the final frame.»

The story looks messy and boring, with some b - list celebrities thrown in just for fun, and no real attention given to truly making this a poignant yet funny drama about an important topic.

While not to be confused with the 1987 Dudley Moore body - swap comedy, Hirokazu Kore - eda's latest drama also undertakes its own kind of identity experiment, one that organically grows into something altogether more poignant.

I»M NOT SCARED (Grade: B +): Gabriele Salvatores, whose «Mediterraneo» won a best - foreign language film Oscar in 1991, directed this absorbing, suspenseful and painfully poignant childhood drama about a 9 - year - old boy faced with an unusual moral dilemma in the golden Italian summer of 1978.

Get Out plays on the themes of idyllic subsocieties with dark secrets established in Stepford Wives and the racial discomfort of dramas like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and sets it to a thrumming Twilight Zone-esque anxiety attack, needling the idea of black culture and white privilege in potent, majorly poignant manners.

, drew a crowd to Keren Cytter's video dramas realised with open - source software effects; Galerie Karsten Greve mounted Northern Irish artist Claire Morgan's tiny taxidermies; and, at Galerie Lelong, a poignant abstract landscape by Etel Adnan spoke to her vision that «Ultimately, our real home is our life».

From Shakespearean drama to tennis players, dancers and acrobats at play, King's aesthetic drew on the archetypal everyman, touching on the Walter Mitty in all of us with poignant works in wood, aluminum, bronze, vinyl and clay.