Sentences with phrase «satisfying films of the year»

For a lighter look at a heavy subject No is one of the most satisfying films of the year.

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Filmed without narration, subtitles, or any comprehensible dialogue, Babies is a direct encounter with four babies who stumble their predictable ways to participating in the awesome beauty of life.Needless to say, their experience of the first year of life is vastly different, yet what stands out is not how much is different but how much is universal as each in their own way attempts to conquer their physical environment.Though the language is different as well as the environment, the babies cry the same, laugh the same, and try to learn the frustrating, yet satisfying art of crawling, then walking in the same way.You will either find Babies entrancing or slow moving depending on your attitude towards babies because frankly that's all there is, yet for all it will be an immediate experience far removed from the world of cell phones and texting, exploring up close and personal the mystery of life as the individual personality of each child begins to emerge.

The Way, Way Back is more than satisfying and could end up being the feel - good film of the year.

Masterfully crafted and possessed of one of the year's most satisfying denouements, Va Savoir is a brilliant film by a master filmmaker.

I would have been so much more satisfied walking out of the screening had the film been about 40 - year - olds and their struggles with deciding what it means to be that age and if they need kids to be happy.

Starring Oscar nominee Felicity Jones as the unlikely Rebel hero Jyn Erso, as well as Mads Mikkelsen, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Riz Ahmed, Ben Mendelsohn, and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, the film is sure to satisfy «Star Wars» fans with some of the best action and most dazzling visual effects of the year.

Easily one of the best films of the year, Lady Bird deserves attention and rewards it with a complex, satisfying experience.

A big - budget, high - quality animated film this early in the year is rare, and while this third chapter of Po the Panda, Master Shifu and the Furious Five doesn't quite live - up to the original, it's fast, furry - ous, and a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.

The Moore Egyptian Theatre performed heroically and made their Third Seattle International Film Festival the biggest yet; that it wasn't the best says as much about the enervation of the international film scene as it does about the festival programming, but even at that, the Moore served up more of the year's most satisfying and / or provocative films than anyone else.

Sean Baker's The Florida Project was a revelatory experience, both in and of itself and because of the fact that it so fully realized the promise of American place - specific reality - based fiction cinema after so many years of films with intriguing passages and situations that never quite add up to an entire satisfying movie.

«Now the story comes to a close in «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2,» a sequel that, in a crowded field, winds up being one of the year's most satisfying popcorn movies,» wrote TheWrap's film critic, Alonso Duralde.

Welshman Gareth Evans is known for his work on «The Raid: Redemption» and «The Raid 2,» two of the most satisfying action films to be made in recent years.

Now, three years later, «Dawn of the Planet of the Apes» raises the bar as one of the edgiest and most satisfying action films of the year.

The end result of all this work and anticipation was «Star Trek - The Motion Picture» (1979), a bloated behemoth of a film that satisfied few (though when director Robert Wise was afforded the chance to recut it years later for home video, that version did play somewhat better) but made enough money to warrant a sequel that would be produced on a much smaller scale.

As a Trek fan, I owe the film a debt of gratitude, for it essentially resurrected the franchise and allowed us to partake of the many more satisfying efforts that came over the last 22 years.

In a year of unprecedented social unrest and acrimony, the Left and Right came together in appreciation of Albert Nobbs, a film whose tony, prestige - picture credentials satisfied Conservatives and whose deeply empathetic exploration of a woman living outside the rules proscribed by society enraptured the Left.

I'm satisfied with the two screenplay winners, both of those usually end up going to the right films - and that's definitely the case this year.

Satisfy your bloodthirsty appetite with the movie that masters of horror and film critics alike are hailing as the funniest and scariest movie of the year.

No one is talking about this film, which makes some sense considering how strong of a year it has been, but it would be a shame for Mara's subtle and satisfying work to go without fanfare.

The musical is alive and well, and living in Hong Kong One of the few wholly satisfying films at this year's festival was Office, a satirical musical - melodrama mashup from Hong Kong action master Johnnie To.

His latest film — or should I say, this year's Woody Allen entry — is a sweet, not altogether satisfying variation on the fantasy - becomes - reality conceit he used in his Depression - era «The Purple Rose of Cairo.»

Disney's THE FINEST HOURS satisfies both cravings in a new film which comes at a time of year that generally finds us in the doldrums of the movie release schedule.

While not as groundbreaking or satisfying as its predecessor, Toy Story 2 is nonetheless one of the best and most entertaining films released in recent years.

I'm actually quite satisfied with this year's set of awards, as many of the stand out films got recognized, though that's not to say there are many, many other excellent films from the festival.

After overachieving on the creatively satisfying blockbuster Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi has set Rebel Wilson to the cast of his new film, Jojo Rabbit, the Fox Searchlight WWII satire he wrote about a 10 - year old boy who struggles to find his place in an increasingly Fascist regime and turns to an imaginary friend when faced with the discovery that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.

After an astonishingly intense start to the action, the tension somehow continues to steadily rise throughout, leading to one of the most emotional and satisfying endings to a film you're likely to see this year.

When some of this year's other summer movies are too predictable to be fun or too serious to be satisfying, this one is a welcome reminder that there's a lot of fun to be had in a silly big - budget film that embraces its patriotic identity (it is the 4th of July, after all) and a comfortable flair for the outrageous.

If a Star Wars film a year isn't enough to satisfy your appetite for a galaxy far, far away, perhaps taking the mantle of a Jedi will.