Sentences with phrase «reminiscent of films like»

It has an expertly crafted mix of self - reflection, endearing comedy and unsettling dark fantasy that feels reminiscent of films like Spirited Away.

In a plot reminiscent of films like Cube or Saw, which were on the horizon at the time of this film's release, two people intent on stealing a rich man's money are subjected to a number of rooms wherein they must solve puzzles in order to survive.

Not exact matches

Actor Joel Edgerton («Warrior,» «Exodus,» «The Great Gatsby») wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is clearly reminiscent of similar thrillers like «Fear,» «Fatal Attraction» and even Michael Haneke's fantastic «Caché,» but gleefully twisted enough to distance itself from the pack.

The macabre comedic undertones are reminiscent of a Coen brothers film like «Blood Simple.»

Sure Looper is reminiscent of the great films mentioned up top, but it feels more like conversation than theft.

David Starsky is just the sort of uptight, anal retentive stick - in - the - mud that Stiller's has a lot of success with in films like Meet the Parents and Along Came Polly - while Wilson's Ken Hutchinson is reminiscent of virtually every character in the actor's repertoire (with few exceptions, including his rare dramatic performance in The Minus Man).

The plot progresses much like the previous films, with lies and misunderstandings reminiscent of a «Three's Company» episode.

«Goodbye Solo» is reminiscent of the cinema verite of films like «The Bicycle Thief» and «The White Balloon», but the template that Bahrani and his screenwriter use, from Kiorastami's «A Taste of Cherry», seems in conflict with the natural direction the performers want to take the

The big bad at the center of John Krasinski's film, while visually reminiscent of what we've come to recognize as the prototypical alien — with modifications, including a head that seemingly functions like a giant ear — is a species of flesh - eating hellion that happens to be blind, and thus its potential prey can successfully evade capture by being silent at all times.

It's a score that re-defines what a science - fiction film can sound like in a way that's reminiscent of Vangelis revolutionary electronic composition for Blade Runner.

Reminiscent of past outer space films like Gravity and Alien, the new trailer does an apt job of establishing an unnerving and suspenseful tone.

Split is funnier, campier, and more freewheeling than anything its writer - director has done — slightly overlong, but reminiscent of Brian De Palma films like The Fury and Femme Fatale in its refusal to be boring.

It all ends on a devilishly ambiguous note that's reminiscent of «Meek's Cutoff» — and in many ways, this does feel like a companion piece to that film, albeit one that's very different on the surface.

Based on the novel by Jesse Andrews, «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» definitely seems to have that Fox Searchlight flavor reminiscent of past films like «Little Miss Sunshine,» «Juno» and «The Fault in Our Stars.»

They deal with the LA scenes in a dream - like way that is reminiscent of David Lynch» sMullholland Drive but the Texan scenes have the grit and violence you'd find in a Peckinpah film.

It takes a good 30 minutes to pick up the kind of momentum needed to drive a depressing character like Largeman through the finish line, but once Portman pops up as the cheerful love interest (reminiscent of her earlier work in «Beautiful Girls»), the film glides to its conclusion.

She is reminiscent of every black widow woman from every film noir ever made: Lana Turner wrapping John Garfield around her little finger in «The Postman Always Rings Twice» or Barbara Stanwyck playing Fred MacMurray like a violin in «Double Indemnity.»

If the premise makes it sound like Glazer's sold out and made a commercial horror / sci - fi genre picture, you couldn't be more wrong — this is the filmmaker at his most experimental and unfiltered, with stunning images that of all three of his films to date, is most reminiscent of his unforgettable commercials work (more on this below).

It's the thoughtless and mostly unknowing act of a little girl — we know from the start that Lucas is blameless — but like a 20th century melodrama (the film's reminiscent of both Arthur Miller «s «The Crucible» and Friedrich Dürrenmatt «s «The Visit» in some respects), the townspeople can't believe that a child would lie, and so Lucas becomes ostracized and untouchable in the community.

Reminiscent of past outer space films like Gravity and Alien, the new trailer does an...

Her lines are reminiscent of World War II — era newsreels, another way the film's future looks a lot like the past.

The way the writing pushes against cliches is reminiscent of»80s films like «Lucas» and «Gregory's Girl.»

The sadly little seen Four Friends (aka Georgia's Friends, 1981), though it doesn't feel like an Arthur Penn film, is nonetheless a very tender and poignant character (and era) study reminiscent in tone and style of John Sayles» The Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) or Lawrence Kasdan's later The Big Chill (1983).

In this sense, the film is vaguely reminiscent of movies like The Princess Bride.

True, it's reminiscent of the cartoons it's based on but the previous films appear to have done a much better job of capturing the adventure of St. Trinian's while this new incarnation feels more like tortured and ill conceived update of the source material.

It's not the most plot - heavy of films, dancing from skit - like episode to episode, a structure reminiscent of the aforementioned «Frances Ha,» a parallel further underlined by the black - and - white photography (if anything the 35 mm work here, by photographer Sara Mishara, is even better than in Noah Baumbach «s film).

The sculptures in the exhibition are white plastic replicas of props and sets from Drawing Restraint 9 (the plastic is reminiscent of some of the props in the film, like the bowl the Guests drink from during the tea ceremony).

The shifting floor of the white cube is reminiscent of the fantastic worlds in films like Brazil (1985) by Terry Gilliam and Playtime (1968) by Jacques Tati in which the hero reluctantly wanders through postmodern offices.

The set - up, reminiscent of some of Hitchcock's films, works like a well - oiled stopwatch: once the situation starts, it can not be stopped.