Sentences with word «satiric»

The Danish iconoclast holds strong ideas about our society, and expresses them in satiric allegories of such audacity that we cast loose from realism and simply float with his conceits.

The movie's themes are aptly captured in the double entendre of the title, suggesting both Crane's narcissism and the video technology that abets it... a lot of Auto Focus is coolly funny — it's a slyly satiric comedy of»60s manners.

In the hands of superior directors such as Quentin Tarantino over-the-top scenes like these would be played tongue - in - cheek with satiric purposes in mind.

If you're a fan of Carrey's earlier comedic work, there is a comfort factor involved in seeing Jim Carrey be Jim Carrey, even if it doesn't have the dark edge or satiric bite of his classic Carrey performances.

This week sees the wide release of Yorgos Lanthimos» weird satiric drama The Lobster, in which single people need to find love or get changed into animals.

In the tradition of Daumier, Ad Reinhardt drew satiric cartoons throughout the late 1940s and early»50s for publications that included ARTnews.

One of Canada's funniest exports has a number of wonderfully odd characters who take sharp, satiric jabs at social conventions and prejudices.

A lot of «Auto Focus» is coolly funny — it's a slyly satiric comedy of»60s manners — and the terrific cast (Ron Leibman is a standout as Crane's long - suffering agent) seems to understand Schrader's semidetached tone perfectly.

The playful «Satiric Dancer» and the exquisite «Chez Mondrian» — the spot - on evocation of the spirit of his friend, the artist Mondrian, in a photographic rendering of the foyer to his home.

They, in turn, are part of a civil service caste system that recalls Evelyn Waugh's satiric view of the British army.

With its naughty innuendo and satiric romance, The Love Parade opened the door for a decade of witty screen battles of the sexes.

But compare it to other foreign dramas like Sweden's remarkable «Force Majeure,» set against a gorgeous mountain landscape, or Argentina's satiric masterpiece «Wild Tales» (which I consider the best film of 2014), and you'll better see how truly slight this Belgian contribution can be.

An icon of the New York Jazz Age, Florine Stettheimer (1871 - 1944) had a singular and often satiric vision and significant role in American modern art.

Fountain employs his ample satiric gifts to depict how flag - waving patriotism merges with our worship of professional football in a single manic event.

And within these new narratives, there is a kind of satiric sensibility and darkly comedic undertone that shines through.

Malhotra brings zest to the action scenes that mix queasy humor with satiric horror, intensifying the impact of the tale.

MacDowell's work is like satiric political cartoons on steroids filled with caricatures of famous celebrities in unlikely but often hilarious situations.

The Florida Project couldn't have started in a more euphoric key than Kool & the Gang's «Celebration», while the year's most misunderstood film, Ang Lee's bitingly satiric Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, deploys Destiny's Child's «Soldier» like a sensory attack on shell - shocked soldiers.

• She enjoys Kate McKinnon's satiric portrayal of her on «Saturday Night Live,» though she had never seen McKinnon's sketches until the makers of «RBG» showed them to her.

It has precedents in his earlier figurative period (and in his occasional satiric drawings of artists and writers), but rephrases them in a type of caricature dating to his childhood imitations of comic strips such as Krazy Kat.

The film takes place in 1957, and Bird not only captures the look and atmosphere of that bygone era, but also its state of mind — most notably the post-WWII fear of an atomic holocaust, which is mined for some good satiric laughs (a sugarcoated classroom film on what to do in the event of a bombing is especially funny).

The script has some creative perks, including inserts of satiric humor amidst this outrageously absurd situation (though the film as a whole is far from campy enough to enjoy on that level).

These are people who would cut off my right to write satiric opinion columns (likely at the neck).

With a website called Punk Domestics dedicated to preserving, restaurants upping their pickle game and a shoutout in satiric television show Portlandia, pickles should be everywhere in 2014.

«They didn't have a voice or outlet, so they created satiric punk songs that put them on the map and gave them a voice about what it's like to be a practicing minority in a country where there's suspicion about their loyalties.

The «approved» art style was propagandistic woodcuts which tended to focus on idealised portraits of reformers, scurrilous satiric depictions of Catholics or a lot of heroic martyrs being killed in a variety of gruesome ways.

Our carnival hostess, Beth Terry of Fake Plastic Fish, kicks off the carnival with a short satiric video about plastic pollution in the San Francisco Bay.

There are glimpses of satiric possibilities, maybe of suburban ennui, maybe of unchecked male aggression, but Berg never comes close to getting a handle on it, and ultimately this whole ordeal is nothing but an extended gross - out gag.

A woman discovers she has miraculous powers that make her unhappy life all the more complicated in this independent satiric comedy.

The film's satiric skewering of»70s liberalism works because it feels emotionally authentic.

Satiric bittersweet funeral pic with a healthy dose of Jewish humor and a droll travelogue look at the NYC landscape.

In this frantic satiric comedy, Maximus Powers (Eric Roberts) and Mike Saunders (Charlie Schlatter) are a pair of airline pilots who are flying a chartered jet to Japan, booked for the contestants in the Miss Galaxy Beauty Pageant.

Also unable to praise the film enough is Karina Longworth of the LA Weekly, who calls it «surprisingly moody, savagely satiric and surreal.»

Spielberg's detractors, who've predictably discounted Lincoln as sentimental white - elephant Oscar bait, seem to have overlooked the film's propulsive satiric drive.

The world of politics provides all the drama - and satiric fodder - any filmmaker could ask for.

Since at least 1912, when nickelodeon patrons got a glimpse at the filmmaking process in the one - reeler A Vitagraph Romance, Hollywood has reveled in stories about itself, which range from the sweetly nostalgic (Singin» in the Rain) to the bitterly satiric (The Player).

Supernatural movies are generally reflexively satiric however their serious intentions («Rosemary's Baby» and «The Exorcist» being two exceptions that make them fine stories).

The picture - in - picture commentary stands as perhaps the best extra of the year, in which the directors hold forth with a marvelous lack of pretension even as they describe a fantastically experimental approach More surface pleasure than their borderline avant - garde Crank films or Gamer «s symbiosis of satiric content and form, Ghost Rider 2 nevertheless tries to create new aesthetic paths for a genre that has rapidly fallen into vanilla homogeneity.

He is our eyes and ears while we watch Get Out, our translator that tells us how we're supposed to interpret this surreal and powerfully satiric (and horrific) look at race and racism among people who claim not to have a racist bone in their bodies.

Never judge a film by its viewers, but the enthusiastic egging - on of the actors and director suggest that even for all their reverential talk of the script's satiric brilliance, the ultimate thrust is lost on them, which may explain the movie's shortcomings.

, «Hear hear» goes a characteristically self - satiric early exchange - leaving uninitiates to the onetime literary bad boy's modus operandi wondering when proceedings will sober up.

Intelligently satiric, incredibly horrific, profoundly funny, and deeply resonant for anyone who thoughtfully ponders the issue of race in North America, Jordan Peele makes an outstanding directorial debut with Get Out (which he also wrote).

In Fassbinder's satiric tribute to capitalism, Lola, a seductive cabaret singer - prostitute, launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale.

What DEMOLITIONIST lacks is its inspiration's satiric viewpoint, or enough of a budget to create any memorable action scenes.

Every choice has either some sort of satiric thing or some other meaning or three meanings.