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

The powerful film from director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) and writer Guy Hibbert is a nail - biter as characters argue over the rules of engagement and the legality and morality of war in making a decision about a drone strike in Kenya that targets the Al - Shabaab militant group.

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The film marks a transition for actor Andrew Garfield, from blockbuster superhero, to critical darling, in a starring role that is already being called one of the year's most powerful.

The aerial shot of all the worshippers streaming away from the mosque, protecting a defenceless Jewish child in their midst, is one of the most powerful of the whole film.

Sadly both for him and for us Princess Leiagram fans, his work is far from over: The film currently requires lasers powerful enough to take down your neighbor's TV, and it can show only two frames a second, far from the 30 frames per second needed for video.

The film also shows a large tidal wave, caused by the powerful eruption, which sends at least one ship from the nearby bay crashing into the city itself.

To us films are the most powerful medium for change and can help you get from A-Z on a topic as quickly as possible.

Even as the case is progressing, the film's center of gravity switches from the trial to the progress of Beckett's disease, and we briefly meet his lover (Antonio Banderas) and his family, most especially his mother (Joanne Woodward), whose role is small but supplies two of the most powerful moments in the film.

I recommend this film if you are into biopics, love films that are about people that challenged the law, and above all else, want to see a powerful performance from Pacino.

Most of all, it contains a powerful, deeply felt performance by Kruger that is both the best thing that she has ever done in a film and worthy of all the accolades that it has received — even during the ludicrous final section, she keeps things from totally spinning out of control.

A searing Oscar - nominated performance from Paul Muni as the desperate James Allen and powerful uncompromising direction ensure that this film is as harrowing and vital today as it ever was.

And you are holding back something special from your kids as well, for while these films take themselves seriously and should perhaps be screened before being shown to some younger, more sensitive audiences, they are among the most powerful animated tales being told today, and they deserve to be allowed to wow you.

The Kite Runner is a powerful, riveting, emotional film that is a faithful adaptation from the excellent novel.

But this film would have worked either way: It's a celebration of a tough woman's rise from her role as a powerful man's spouse, and it's a case for why reporting should never be beholden to the whims of the White House (as the Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Times put it, the role of the press is to serve «the governed, not the governors»).

From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destFrom his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destfrom the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destfrom the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

This must be the age of bliss for Harry being he loves absolutly every movie he sees... it's fairly obvious he's being paid off, after the Batman And Robin fiasco (back when the site was pure) studios realized how powerful this kinda site can be so they decided to give knowles a wad of cash to give their films a good review... Only reason Star Trek Nemesis didn't get a good review was because Moriarty and others bashed Rick Berman so much he didn't wan na give them Money he was so insulted... everyone do a favor and goto http://www.corona.bc.ca/films it's a real movie lovers site withreal reviews and NEWS... no shit about how they got the news or that they think the film reminds them of from their youth, just news..

Luckily, Holland's film focusses on a rather unusual true story from Poland during the atrocities of the Second World War rather than the well - told tales of the concentration camps (as obviously important and powerful as they are).

Overall, Dukhtar is a powerful and moving film capable of providing more thrills than your average blockbuster, a rare and exciting combination from an emerging filmmaker.

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

Transcending the boundaries of both biopics and animated films alike with rich material, gorgeous images, a devastating story, and one of the most powerful thematic interpretations of the passion that comes with creativity, the story of Jiro Horikoshi and his journey from wide - eyed dreamer to war - engineer is a heartbreaking, existentially maddening, astoundingly beautiful and human film.

The film was directed and adapted for the screen by Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) and stars Michael Fassbender (Assassin's Creed, X-Men: Apocalypse), Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), and Rachel Weisz (The Mummy, Oz the Great and Powerful).

The character of the recently wealthy «capitalist bloodsucker» Anton Saitz (Gottfried John), who Elvira had the operation in hope of love from, is unseen for more than half the film's length, making it all the more powerful when he is revealed in tennis shorts and shirt impersonating Jerry Lewis on television.

The film builds to its powerful climax on the strength of Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau's extraordinary pairing as Auschwitz survivors who meet in a nursing home and plan the murder of a former guard from Auschwitz with two deadlines: One due to the diminishing number of Nazi officers and perpetrators remaining alive, and other because of the dementia that has made Plummer's Zev Guttman constantly battle the growing fog and uncertainty that are slowly destroying his mental competence as Landau's Max guides him on an improbable journey.

The film also builds to a climax in which magic skills are put to good use, as is the intellect of the protagonists, in trying to thwart the powerful adversaries from perhaps destroying the planet on the pretense of bestowing everlasting life to all.

Music frequently plays a crucial role in Denis's films, exemplified by Beau Travail (1999), which expertly mixed a Tindersticks score, excerpts from Benjamin Britten opera «Billy Budd» and Corona's catchy dance hit «The Rhythm Of The Night» to powerful effect.

From Academy Award ® winner Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) and Oscar ® - winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind), 8 Mile is the triumphant film Time Magazine hails as «Powerful!»

What a tedious film.Over acting, wobbly plot, dialogue at times pure drivel and a laughable ending.It really was poor.The film goes straight into a Cul de Sac and can not get out.Way too much nudity from the metro sexual looking Tilda Swinton.Her androgynous body quite turned my stomach.A redeeming feature was the glorious sunshine and powerful light of Italy.The film meanders, wobbles and finally falls down.Older people like Swinton and Fiennes should really keep their pants on at all times.It is acutely embarrassing when the oldies need to do so much nudity (l suspect it is to appease their insecurity that they might not be physically desirable anymore) Horrible attempt at film making

Shortly after announcing that they've acquired rights to Werner Herzog's 3 - D doc «Cave of Forgotten Dreams,» the distributor reveals that it has picked up Barry Avrich's «Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project,» a «powerful, uncensored, no - holds - barred» film that traces Weinstein's early path from Buffalo concert promoter to his first Oscar and first $ 100 million film.

In Coogler's film, the women of Wakanda are elevated from lazily constructed positions of subservience to become powerful characters with narrative - shaping responsibilities.

As the film's tone veers back and forth between borderline TV movie and gripping drama, it's propelled by powerful turns from leads Streep and Hanks.

Because the writer knew that even if this very powerful man never gave her a job in any of his films, even if he blacklisted her from other films, she could make her own work on her own terms and thus keep a roof over her head.»

One wonders where the film could go from such a tremendous opening and the answer is a powerful one: it goes small.

The decision to wear black was orchestrated by powerful British women in film and yesterday, a group of actresses from the UK and Ireland, including Saoirse Ronan, who pledged their support for the new UK Justice and Equality Fund in an open letter published in The Observer.

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.

The film's commitment to Cormac McCarthy's dark vision may prove too unyielding for some, but the film benefits from hauntingly powerful performances - including Theron, whose memory comforts a man on a mission of survival.

The upcoming film from the director of Blue Valentine, which also stars Ryan Gosling, looks as if he has another emotionally powerful story on his hands.

From beautiful cinematic pans across hazy fields, to the powerful script, this film is a gripping, metaphoric mental game of classism, sexism, but most of all racism.

Directed by Bong Joon - ho (The Host), and based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, the film is rich in atmosphere and features powerful performances from some very fine actors, including Chris Evans, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris and Jamie Bell.

Charlize Theron seems like a feint, but I see Noomi Rapace in stills from the film, and my mind immediately begins conjuring powerful possibilities.

Michael Powell's film had always haunted and intrigued me, but seeing the streets that I traversed every day on - screen from fifty years earlier had a darkly powerful effect on me.

It's too bad that the makeup in question here is distracting from Harrelson's performance, because midway into the film, when he is taking the oath on Air Force One, his «not without Jackie» moment is a powerful scene.

In fact, its character and rich emotional layers are what elevates the film from a precisely - told absorbing thriller into something much more potent and powerful: a breathtakingly harrowing tale of survival and grueling desperation that redefines the term «nailbiter.»

This isn't the Old Testament prehistory we've seen before — Aronofsky draws from both Christian and Jewish religious texts to fill out the story (which is actually quite short in the Bible) and offers bleak, poisoned world before the flood quite different from the Mediterranean deserts and forests of previous films — and it accomplishes something quite powerful, vivid and unexpected as a result.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

The film features a stellar cast led by Justin Long (Yoga Hosers, Tusk, Accepted), Melanie Lynskey («Castle Rock,» «Togetherness,» Heavenly Creatures), Tony Hale («Arrested Development,» «Veep»), Melonie Diaz (Fruitvale Station, The Belko Experiment), Carrie Preston («Claws,» «True Blood»), and powerful performances from teenage actors Arman Darbo (Defenders of Life) and Sawyer Barth (Super Dark Times).

Director Paul Schrader is too removed from the powerful emotions roiling through the film, but it may be the only way to handle the horrors he's forced to confront.

It leaves us to wonder if the film might have been more powerful had it delved a bit deeper into what the characters would have faced from the outside world.

The six all - powerful stones (originally known as gems in the Marvel comics) have popped up in nine of the franchise's fourteen films, movies ranging in scope and tone from the World War II period piece «Captain America: The First Avenger» to the outer space adventure film «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

And that is the real strength of the film, along with the two powerful central performances, from Peter Simonischek (Oktober November), as Winfried, and Sandra Hüller (Amour fou), as Ines.

Having scored Amores perros (2000) and 21 Grams (2003), Santaolalla's career includes a short but fascinating collection of films beholding powerful human relationships, and in Diaries, Santaolalla wrote his themes sketches based on early impressions from the screenplay.