Sentences with phrase «richer than comedy»

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Kik offers richer engagement than you'd get on a broadcast - based platform like Facebook or Twitter — the comedy video website Funny or Die, for example, has had conversations with 1.5 million chatters on Kik, and users send an average of seven messages to a brand per chat.

In this divine comedy a poor woman's farthing cast inconspicuously in the temple chest may be worth more than all the benefactions of the rich.

Visceral action (including an opening sequence that masterfully sets the tone for the rest of the film); a sharply written and directed script; rich, dynamic characters; and, as promised, the world's cutest cat (other than yours if you have one) combine to create a gut - busting, endearing, salty - sweet, and highly re-watchable comedy.

Debut writer - director Chris Kelly, a writer on «SNL,» digs in rather than relying on contrived, movie - ready set pieces (as in the similar «The Hollars»), making this gay «Garden State» rich with naturalistic comedy as well as beautifully touching moments.

An enchanting riff on friendship and the late -20-something rite of passage into true adulthood, while the buoyant comedy does focus on those who still don't have their shit together, it is however, leagues more rich and emotionally layered than the average arrested development dilemma that seems to characterize 20 / 30 - something comedies of late.

I understand this may be largely a matter of categorization, but it doesn't matter: Elf is a funnier, richer, and all - around better film than most of the comedies I've seen in the past 16 years.

Rohmer's style is both more lush (shot in rich colors by Nestor Almendros) and less intimate than his previous romantic comedies, directed in painterly compositions from a removed distance.

With a premise that would probably have worked better on a TV sitcom than as a major motion picture, The Cookout is a well - intentioned attempt to make a heartfelt family comedy showcasing the rich variety of African - American archetypes.

Reese Witherspoon deserves richer projects than this shiny but empty domestic comedy, inauspiciously directed by the daughter of Nancy Meyers.

For director David Gordon Green, who cut his teeth on rich character studies like George Washington, Undertow, All the Real Girls and Mud, this moves closer to those films than his recent forays into flops like Our Brand is Crisis or wild comedy like Pineapple Express and Eastbound and Down.

Despite a performance from Melanie Lynskey who is as cute as she was in her first role in 1994 as a girl with a rich fantasy life in Peter Jackson's «Heavenly Creatures,» the comedy is slight, perhaps to be appreciated more on the small screen than in the movie house.

«Safety Not Guaranteed» is an amalgamation of everything that's great about independent filmmaking — from its hugely original script to its wonderful cast of characters — but the one thing that it does better than anything else is create a cinematic experience that's rich in both comedy and emotion.

- Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand «With a deft, sure touch, Ann Leary moves easily and confidently between comedy and pathos, painting a rich portrait of a wealthy, eccentric Connecticut family whose conflicts and loyalties are far more complex than they first appear.