Sentences with phrase «polarizing film in»

It might be the most polarizing film in the Best Picture race, but the film has worn Hollywood down.

Perhaps the most widely polarizing film in recent memory, Kill List, a kitchen - sink drama meets surreal cult horror hybrid, confirmed at least one thing for everyone who walked out of the theater, both awed and annoyed alike: Whether for good or for ill, Ben Wheatley is one of Britain's most interesting contemporary filmmakers.

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The team showed that a magnetic skyrmion can be created under a nanocontact, in which a spin - polarized current is injected into the magnetic thin film providing a so - called spin torque to its magnetic moments.

The film released in 2013, and directed by Guillermo del Toro was instantly polarizing.

You lose a staggering amount of light and texture watching a movie through dark polarized lenses, and Deathly Hallows is a film that lives in the nuances of earth tones that are turned to mud by 3 - D.

Glazer's made what is sure to be a polarizing film - the reasons I enjoyed it are precisely the reasons the next person will be unmoved by it - but I'm firmly in the «I loved it» camp.

Like Only God Forgives before it, this one will polarize and is not for everyone, but if you're up for a vivid and distinct sensory treat unlike most films you find in a given year, this arthouse flick is one beautiful satire of beauty.

But the Academy might not be able to see past how polarizing the film is to recognize she is very, very good in it.

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

Ridley Scott's much anticipated prequel / sequel to his hit film Alien and the polarizing Prometheus will be moved from it's October release into the summer in August while «The Predator» will come out in March 2018 with the director of The Monster Squad and Shane Black returning to pare up for the sequel to the 1987 classic.

Many of the nominated films are still going strong in theaters, notably the monster movie / romantic drama The Shape of Water, which leads this year's class with thirteen nominations; the polarizing Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, -LSB-...]

Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...

itself, Kameron, you wrote that it was «the kind of movie that makes me want to avoid the internet for a century,» which makes me curious about how you and the rest of the gang have approached writing about tricky films in a moment where everything feels polarized between «this movie will save mankind!»

We laughed till we cried, the «we» being the diverse, usually combative press corps, which almost unanimously embraced Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann as the first great film of the 2016 festival, in part because it accomplished what few films do in these polarized times: it made us aware of our common humanity.

M. Night Shyamalan is one of the most polarizing figures in film, and Decider's own team is duking it out to find out whether or not he is the literal...

The project was a labour of love for Zanuck and Ford in a film whose socialist politics and subtle sentimentality polarized American audiences after years of suffering under the same conditions.

Backlash ensues over apparent body alterations to Tom Ford, Chanel model in polarizing superhero film

It quickly became a polarizing film for film critics, many embracing the Red Shoes meets Repulsion psychological portrait of neurosis and obsession in a meek, repressed young woman (Natalie Portman) who still has little girl prima ballerina dreams, others critical of the melodrama, hysteria and blunt metaphors («high - grade hokum,» as one critic called it).

With unrepentant bombast — and, one imagines, a smirk — Yorgos Lanthimos announces, in just the first shot, that this is his film, and he doubles down on the stylistic tics that define his polarizing work.

As polarizing as Tom Hooper has been in his choices to shoot and frame his films like «The King's Speech» and «Les Miserables,» two films that are still delightfully poignant years after, «The Danish Girl» is by far his most alluring film to date.

Film critics Bruce Reid, Richard T. Jameson, Kathleen Murphy, and Robert Horton debate and discuss the polarizing film The Neon Demon, the work of director Michael Cimino, and the unifying filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the July 2016 edition of Framing Pictures from Scarecrow Video.

The Neon Demon will prove to be just as polarizing as Refn's last film, though it is arguably more accessible than Only God Forgives and more successful in getting its point across.

Richard Curtis» overlapping - stories rom - com has become a polarizing flick in recent years, many arguing that the film is too sickly sweet for its own good.

And while the film is polarizing for many audiences, I still find him hilarious and captivating in Inherent Vice.

The Sea of Trees by Hope Madden In 2002, filmmaker Gus Van Sant released one of his more polarizing and thoughtful films.

If it can't get a substantial number of votes in the first round of counting, ballots from eliminated nominees will be redistributed and we suspect most will go to other less polarizing films.

Pedigree: Von Trier has been terrorizing the festival circuit for years with polarizing films like Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark, and Dogville, and his enfant terrible status was reaffirmed at the infamous press conference for Melancholia, where his remarks on Nazis got him banned from Cannes.

Ringer editor - in - chief Sean Fennessey sits down with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky to discuss his polarizing film, Mother!

Max Landis is a fairly polarizing figure in the film industry, partly because he's the son of John Landis and will continue to get opportunities even when his projects flop and partly because he tends to have awful opinions about Star Wars characters, but now he may have finally landed a film that will prove once and...

In the recently completed Sleeping Beauty, her most controversial film to date (which polarized audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival), her character works in a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the better of heIn the recently completed Sleeping Beauty, her most controversial film to date (which polarized audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival), her character works in a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the better of hein a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the better of hein a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the better of her.

Both of his previous films — the critically acclaimed crime drama Drive (2011) and the quite polarizing revenge thriller Only God Forgives (2013)-- played in the official competition and Winding...

Then there are two video artists, Price and Fowler, who have contributed, respectively, a short film dealing with a deadly 1979 fire at a Woolworth store (mixed in with footage of the Shangri Las) and a feature - length film about the polarizing Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing.

This film is a little spooky as despite the age of the subject material, it catches some of the anxiety going on in the polarized U.S. right now — especially some of the violence that has erupted during the political rallies.