Sentences with phrase «powerful film»

Easily going to be one of the most powerful films of 2015.

That, for me, makes it one of the most powerful films of the past several years, flaws and all.

The film is without a doubt one of the most emotionally powerful films with this level of grim violence that I've ever seen.

It is a very powerful film and well acted.

It just shows how powerful film can really be — without violence, without special effects, and without sex.

Pair such an entertaining and exciting sport with an impeccable script, solid performances and incredibly appropriate shooting technique, and you've got a particularly powerful film.

An impressive indie - noir from a first - time filmmaker who takes a simple idea and turns it into a surprisingly powerful film.

There could have been an extraordinarily powerful film somewhere here, but that would have perhaps pushed it beyond the boundaries of the genre.

Joining the most popular and powerful film series in the world right now is a no - brainer for any up - and - coming actor.

A tough decision between two wonderful, powerful films of striking diversity.

This is a very powerful film, with much to admire about it.

At this weekend's Comic Con, the internet got a chance to see just how powerful these films can be to young fans.

Reason: It's one of the most powerful films I've ever seen, and one of the hardest to watch.

The list is also missing several directors that have only made a single best - picture nominee so far, including people like Denis Villeneuve, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jean - Marc Vallée — all of whom have also made powerful films about women.

Am thrilled to be featured in a new powerful film by Laurie David and Katie Couric that features an all - star line - up.

Very powerful film which poses a lot of moral questions about the consequences of the American government's campaign to empower anti-communist governments during the Cold War but instead we empowered a brutal regime, and the fallout of this caused a million person genocide that took place against those labeled as communists, this film is about the families that were destroyed by this tragedy.

It's a quintuple of powerful films from six formidable helmers.

The year's best megaplex blockbuster — a more powerful film for some of us than «Dunkirk» or «Star Wars: The Last Jedi.»

As powerful a film as you'll ever encounter, Gleason documents the former Saints player's grueling struggle with ALS, its effect on his wife and those around him, and his message to his young son

He's made powerful films (Pan's Labyrinth), fun ones (Hellboy II: The Golden Army), and some duds (Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak).

Watching «Lady Bird» in the midst of such powerful films was a lesson in hack work vs. quality Cinema.

That's the question facing the eight monks at the center of Xavier Beauvois's slow moving yet powerful film «Of Gods and Men.»

The realness of Jenkins script combined with two tour - de-force performances from Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn makes Private Life one of the most emotionally powerful films to come out of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

It would have been a much more powerful film had the actress been a disabled woman, especially someone whose sign was fluent and natural, a sign language that she relied upon every day to communicate, and not just for a single role.

It's because what Torun really captures in her unexpectedly powerful film is kindness in its purest form.

The bad publicity that came with Disney's strong - arming of the press was something even one of the most powerful film companies in the world wanted to avoid.

THE STATION AGENT is a quietly powerful film about the unspeakable awkwardness of life.

«The Bomb» is an unnarrated, non-linear, and yet immensely powerful film that riffs on the major themes in Schlosser's book.

A tough, engaging and utterly powerful film.

With SLEEPWALKING, first time director William Maher (not Bill Maher - the Politically Incorrect guy) had a chance to make an extremely powerful film about the effect an abusive childhood can have on someone when they try to start their own lives.

Steven Spielberg «s devastating telling of the Holocaust and Oskar Schindler's efforts to save refugees from the hands of the Nazis remains one of the most powerful films ever made.

But it didn't spoil my enjoyment of what eventually becomes a viscerally powerful film, or of Oldman's at times electrifying performance.

Shot over the course of 12 years with a cast of mostly unprofessional or semi-professional actors, as well as Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, this remarkably powerful film seems like a stunt only on paper.

That this choice is one so strange is the singular problem in this otherwise powerful film — it is so hard to believe that anyone could make the decision they do, that any empathy for their subsequent plight is lost.

Powerful film reminds us that every victim of a random shooting was, first and foremost, a person just living his or her life

Roman Polanski's film Rosemay Baby is a truly powerful film and to this day remains one of the greatest horror films of all time.

On the strength of Staunton's performance alone, it is Leigh's most powerful film since Naked in which David Thewlis ranted and raged as the passionate misanthrope Johnny, adrift in an urban landscape blighted by Thatcherism.

I wish I could say all the more subtly creepy — but as long as it's holding back from the excess that eventually overpowers it, this is an intensely powerful film.

That being said, I will predict that if you haven't seen Let the Right One In, Let Me In will be an equally powerful film for you and an experience you won't easily forget.

The desire to backslide into damaging behavior has been the subject of many powerful films, big and small.

But by focusing instead on the hard - nosed journalism that broke the story, McCarthy has crafted a bracingly powerful film about the institutions that hold sway in our society, the need for a free press to hold them accountable, and the pervasive sense of guilt that can get in the way.

And I was painfully aware of this gap in the Anglo - American situation, whereas in France there is an academic culture and still a very powerful film culture.

Declan Clarke's powerful films intertwine personal subjectivity and action with grand narratives and explorations of the historical edifices of power.

Italian spaces Magazzino (Rome) and ZERO (Milan) showed powerful film works from Mircea Cantor and Pietro Roccasalva (repspectively) capably stopping visitors in their tracks.

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I liked Babel very much and thought it was a very powerful film with excellent performances, but it's subject matter was so bleak and it offered little to no silver lining by it's close.

Very powerful film which poses a lot of moral questions about the consequences of the American government's campaign to empower anti-communist governments during the Cold War but instead we empowered a brutal regime, and the fallout of this caused a million person genocide that took place

Arthur Jafa, Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death Gavin Brown's Enterprise This seven - minute film of famous black figures and violence against the black body is a visual exorcism and a psychic gut - punch — and as powerful a film as any made in this decade.

On four powerful films from TIFF, including works starring Anne Hathaway, Anne Heche, Sally Hawkins, and Gemma Arterton.