Sentences with phrase «scathing indictment»

Now the characters of Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) and President Business (Will Ferrell) both could be perceived as scathing indictments of capitalism, but to judge either of those films as a Marxist condemnation of western society is a fool's errand.

The sci - fi fantasy / romance The Shape of Water came in with seven nominations, Jordan Peele's scathing indictment on racism in America, Get Out, earned six and both BPM (Beats Per Minute) and Lady Bird earned five, rounding out the Film of the Year nominees.

But «San Andreas» serves as a pretty scathing indictment of Dwayne Johnson the movie star.

While Lipton and activist organizations — like Make the Road Action, a leading immigrants» rights group that endorsed Nixon on Friday — were careful to blame the crack - up on Cuomo, at least one labor leader offered a more scathing indictment of the WFP.

Two recent reports on City Hall's role in the questionable lifting of deed restrictions on a nursing home property issued scathing indictments of both process and personnel in the de Blasio administration.

Both films are also darkly comic, though Point Blank is more socially pungent, offering a darkly scathing indictment of corporate America, where crooks are indistinguishable from so - called legitimate businessmen.

If I had one complaint about Guitar Hero Live, it's the soundtrack — a pretty scathing indictment for a music game.

Drawing on several legal figures, Chandler informs readers of the «fierce debate» that Scalia's «scathing indictment of American society as dominated by secular «worldly wise» enemies of Christianity» has provoked.

The ultimate stockbroker film, of course, was 1987's Wall Street, Oliver Stone's scathing indictment of capitalism.

A case in point is Orania Papazoglou's scathing indictment of modern American feminism, «Despising Our Mothers, Despising Ourselves» (January).

Tough - guy New York newspaperman Pete Hamill praised the book as a scathing indictment of the «culture of poverty» (yes, he really uses this phrase) fostered by «Eamon de Valera's Ireland,» while the literary critic Denis Donoghue, writing in the New York Times, presented the book in much the same way (though he clearly lacks Hamill's enthusiasm for the story).

A bestseller in Europe, The Conflict is a scathing indictment of a stealthy zealotry that cheats women of their full potential.

While the content provides a devastating and scathing indictment of the world of consulting, it sometimes seems as if Stewart is less inclined to pass judgement than the facts he presents demand.

After the nonprofit investigative news outlet ProPublica released a scathing indictment of Democrats» manipulation of the redistricting process, Burton called it «a complete [expletive] fabrication.»

I, Daniel Blake is a scathing indictment on the government and their complete lack of empathy towards its own citizens.

Critic Consensus: Patrick Melrose is a scathing indictment of British high society's inherited dysfunction, cruelty, and the wealth that enables them.

This stunning film is not only a scathing indictment of the evil done in the name of religion but of the backwardness of Romanian society as a whole.

The producers thought 49th Parallel, a scathing indictment of Nazi Germany, would hasten America's involvement in the war.

It's a still - scathing indictment of sensationalist journalism, in which Douglas» Chuck Tatum stumbles onto a scoop in Albuquerque, and won't let go.

We begin with a compelling love story that evolves into a dissection of marriage in all its facets, a thrilling possible - murder mystery, a scathing indictment of American national media and... well to go much further I'd wade into spoiler territory and honestly, this film is best experienced without them.

In chronicling the journey of Anwar Congo and his cohorts to re-construct mass killings in the style of their favorite films, The Act of Killing acts as both a scathing indictment of American popular movies and a celebration of the power of the camera to move and enlighten.

Fed Up is a scathing indictment of America's food industry and it arrives at a time when we are in a state of crisis.

But in 12 Years a Slave, like never before, McQueen gives us a ghastly and uncompromising look at how it must have REALLY felt to be a slave and at the same time presents a scathing indictment of the sickening enterprise that gave white masters total dominion over black families.

The series stands besides Kendrick Lamar's DAMN., Jordan Peele's Get Out, and Sean Baker's The Florida Project; as both scathing indictment of our political moment and a loving ode to the people most deeply impacted by American oppression.

Nearly three - quarters of a century before the film «12 Years a Slave,» a scathing indictment of slavery, was nominated for nine Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel won a supporting actress Oscar for playing the loyal slave Mammy in 1939's «Gone With the Wind.»

At the core of the film is a story about the physical and emotional abuse disgraced figure skating champion Tonya Harding endured throughout her life from her mother and her husband, but the film also explores the very traditional, staid world of competitive figure skating, while also offering a scathing indictment on the behaviour of the media.

Set in pre-revolution Egypt in 2011, this Sundance winner is a scathing indictment of corruption, as uncovered in the aftermath of a murder.

(T) error (Unrated) Whistleblower featuring a former FBI informant's scathing indictment of the Bureau's use of illegal surveillance and interrogation tactics during a counterterrorism sting operation.

They also deliver a scathing indictment of the media, American class consciousness, and its corrosive impact on a superlative athlete who was apparently on thin ice from the get go.

It has the nerve, the sensitivity and the unmitigated genius to tap into genuine artistic befuddlement, and root it within a scathing indictment of Hollywood thought.

In the 30 years since this scathing indictment, most schools have taken drastic steps to meet the report's challenge to adopt «more rigorous and measurable standards» for learning.

A historical saga and a romance, Lilli de Jong is both a scathing indictment of societal biases and a testament to the redemptive strength of a mother's love.

From its subtle cover, featuring the title superimposed over the yellow lettering on a vintage red copy of Catcher in the Rye, to its intelligent, self - deprecating, opinionated narrator, Portman's novel is a humorous, scathing indictment of the current public education system.

That such bruising poverty can exist in the world's richest country is a scathing indictment of our regulatory policies.

This scathing indictment of worldwide fecklessness when confronted by the destruction of Bosnia - Hercegovina and the death or displacement of so many Bosnian Muslims is perhaps the most powerful, passionate, and penetrating dissection of the tragedy by a Westerner.

Kojima has yet to comment publicly on this surprising development, instead tweeting a picture of a grilled cheese sandwich that may or may not also be a scathing indictment of world politics, and society and shit.

Each painting is as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth - century industrialists or — locating the work in the present — contemporary American consumer society.

The play is a scathing indictment of grotesque government and source for many an allegory and «puppet transgression,» buttons that many of the artists in The Puppet Show similarly activate.

In 2013, renowned philosopher Pascal Bruckner released The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings, a scathing indictment of the contemporary environmental belief system.

Former Lord Chief Justice Lord Bingham delivered a scathing indictment of the UK and US invasion of Iraq in 2003 in his address to the British Institute of International and Comparative Law this week.

In a scathing indictment of the over-reaching effects of ERISA preemption, Judge William Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts implored Congress to amend ERISA's civil enforcement provision to allow recovery against utilization review providers and insurers.

A scathing indictment of Australia's failure to address the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been published in an international journal, BMJ Globa... Read more

Meanwhile, researchers recently published a scathing indictment of the Government's failures to address the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

A scathing indictment of Australia's failure to address the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been publishe... Read more

A scathing indictment of Australia's failure to address the high incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been published in an international journal, BMJ Global Health.