Sentences with phrase «say film critics»

To say film critics lack relevance ignores the cyclical nature of abuse and neglect of women and people of color behind the camera.

Not exact matches

Critics say wait for other Steve Jobs film, written by Aaron Sorkin http://t.co/cySnQbaRaG

What critics said: «Pugh and the film around her hold an audience transfixed and conflicted to the end.»

What critics said: «It's at once minimalist and maximalist, cynical and dopey, a big - boy white elephant art film that is actually a lean and mean suspense set - piece machine.»

What critics said: «It knocks down a lot of the infrastructure the previous films had created, and it does so in a way that feels organic and refreshing for the Marvel world at large.»

Garbo, then thirty - six, said the critics — the Legion primus inter pares — «dug my grave,» and she never made another film.

Evangelical critics have similar reservations, said Bonk, as well as a concern about «whether a film, any film, can have the capacity to communicate the gospel without reference to local contexts.»

(That's my read — one web critic says the film fails because Stone never had the guts to take any point of view.)

«Calm down, dear,» he said, a la Michael Winner, the beaming, bumbling film director and critic who epitomises smugness.

While getting a movie or TV show to film in your home state is competitive, critics say New York has already been a longtime on - location setting for major productions.

Here's what I like, and I don't care what professional film critics say.

This lends to what critics have said about this film being cliché ridden.

One scene in particular had me staring at two film critic colleagues in disbelief, as if to say, «Is this really happening?»

Many critics have said that this is similar to Star Wars, and I can see why, but there is still plenty of originality to the film to make it a memorable viewing experience.

Yet as another critic has said, the film is sad without being depressing.

The film isn't great, but it certainly isn't as bad as what many critics have said about the film.

The film did only a fraction of the business of, say, the previous year's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, but it did earn a few favorable reviews even as it repulsed critics such as Roger Ebert.Thereafter, Fleming's career waxed extremely uneven from a critical standpoint, though his grosses remained generally favorable throughout and the projects kept rolling in.

I'd be lying if I said that The Band's Visit isn't touching and uplifting and all those other audience - friendly emotions against which film critics are believed to religiously steel themselves.

Find out what critics are saying about all of the major films (and TV shows) debuting at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week prcritics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week prCritics» Week programs.

I can't say I can fully blame the critics, because even though, like I said, I like this film alright, it has more than just some decent, if annoying punk rock classics to give you (Yes, I'm going to say it again) «heebie - jeebies» (There).

Critics raved and the film was a hit, but Kubrick was frustrated by his lack of artistic control — he had no say in the script or final cut — and largely disowned the work.

A Walk in the Woods shouldn't be criticized for its simplicity, which is what some critics have said about it, because a film like this can't really do much more than it does.

The film is fairly underrated and it does manage at being one of those films that is much better than what the critics said.

If I were to offer a film critic style soundbite, I would say that Collar X Malice is a slick, stylish, and sexy thriller.

In December 7, 2003 respected film critic Roger Ebert said Theron's performance in Monster was one of the greatest performances in the history of film.

Some critics went as far as to say that this film «scarred them for life».

If you aren't interested in what film critics have to say then stop reading them and most of all stop telling them to change how they approach cinema.

So who's to say that Todd Solondz or Skip Woods or Peter Berg or Danny Boyle or Robert Frank or Lance Mungia or John Dahl or Vincenzo Natali couldn't very well go on to have some quite significant bodies of work... or at the very least become a film critic.

We don't want to say anything more — and frankly, the trailer makes it difficult to intuit much, save for some mysterious affliction that seems to render people immobile — but our film critic A.A. Dowd caught the film at Cannes this year and praised it, saying Lanthimos «brings a thunderous, quaking dread to every square inch» of his latest project, like a «twisted slow - burn Cape Fear.»

Even the screenwriters get blasted in most of the reviews posted online, similarly to TheWrap's film critic Andy Klein «s review, who said «the four credited screenwriters — the returning Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt, plus Christian Gudegast («A Man Apart») and Chad St. John — make things move fast enough to keep you awake, but not fast enough to finesse its plot absurdities past an alert viewer's mind.»

It may be surprising for you to learn that in a country with more than one billion people, the fastest growing film industry in the world, and a 10 billion rmb (1.5 billion usd) box office gross in 2010 alone, there is hardly any professional film criticism accessible to its public.When I say hardly any, I mean that there is an absence of professional film critics who work for major, national publications and media outlets, and thus a lack of regular film reviews of new Chinese movies, at least for the mass audiences.

Todd McCarthy at the Hollywood Reporter is another critic to single out Vikander's performance, while also saying the film itself is lacking:

After I saw it at the Toronto film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then early this year it came out on video.

In addition, see what critics have to say about the film, so far.

Michael Keaton plays a somewhat fictitious version of himself in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest movie «Birdman,» which film critic Michael Phillips says is «just plain fun to watch.»

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

Or maybe it's because she's married to Lou that she can't stop thinking of Daniel... Following up «Away from Her,» Polley's second film is sharply dividing critics and audience in Toronto: Many find it simultaneously exhilarating and depressing; others find it ugly and hateful; a third faction seems to be kicking against the film not for how it says what it says, but, instead, for what it says in the first place.

It's not as bad a film as some critics (especially Erhlich) are saying; there's always pushback when a mediocre film gets promoted too hard.

Furthermore, all four critics» organizations have voted to disqualify Disney's films from year - end awards consideration until said blackout is publicly rescinded.

The film critic David Ehrlich has tweeted that the film feels like it wasn't even made by humans, and I'd go further, to say that the movie dehumanizes its leading woman and attempts, disconcertingly, to dehumanize its audience.

The Online Film Critics Society's Governing Committee said, «This year's nominations and films recognised represent the rich variety of films on the global stage in 2016.

Even critics of last year's Amores Perros have admitted that an insurgence of Mexican productions into the highly populated art house distribution crowd is increasingly inevitable (the best simile that could be imagined is that the rise of Mexican cinema is like the push for Germany and Japan's permanent inclusion on the UN Security Counsil — hey, as art film distributors are saying, we're still working with the inclusion of Iran and Taiwan).

«In the face of massive marketing for big studio films, it is the ultimate underdogs who have emerged as critic's darlings and fan favorites,» said Tim Gordon, president of WAFCA.

The late film critic Pauline Kael famously said of the popular Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers pairing, «He gave her class and she gave him sex.»

SOUNDS: My fellow film critic Eric D. Snider said it first, but I'll make sure he's not the last... Clint Mansell's score blends perfectly with the original music with «Swan Lake.»

After all, the film is already shattering box office records and receiving glowing reviews from critics, so it's safe to say Marvel Studios has a pretty firm grasp on what works and what's better left to our imaginations.

While I'm a fan of the divisive space epic Prometheus, there's no denying that with critics and audiences alike Scott has been in quite a steep rough patch these past few years and so it's with no shortage of competition that I say that his latest, Exodus: Gods and Kings, is easily the worst film of his 40 - year career.

Critic Bob Mondello says little is not a word he'd use to describe anything about the film.

While it's entirely possible that «Demon» will appeal more to U.S. audiences after its June 24 release than it did to critics who saw the film at Cannes, at the festival, Refn said his intention was to make a «primal» movie that featured heightened reality in a way that could provoke drastically different reactions from viewers.