Sentences with phrase «sharp debut film»

In Richard Ayoade's sharp debut film, Oliver Tate is a precocious 15 - year - old Welsh virgin who has a crush on a tough girl, Johanna, and a mother who might just be cheating on his sad - sack dad.

Not exact matches

According to Sundance where the film debuted: «With eternal curiosity, razor - sharp intellect, and existential longing, Gold is a culinary geographer taking us where no critic has gone before.»

Katz made waves with his debut film, the razor - sharp «Cheap Thrills,» and his follow - up is similarly clever if a bit less satisfying.

Two other Turkish films from noted auteurs were in the retrospective section: Semih Kaplanoglu's Süt (Milk, 2008), a rich story of a young man's quest to become a poet, done with sharp social observation by the director, but degenerating into hazy symbolism by the end, a device that also marred the director's next film, Mal (Honey, 2010); and Kasaba (Small Town, 1997) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the director's debut feature, already displaying his steady hand and broad compassion.

Sharp's feature debut came last year in Marti Noxon's «To the Bone» for Netflix, although he filmed this around the same time.

Where Eagles Dare looks good in its high - def debut: it's a film - like transfer that's clean and sharp, marred only by the occasional distraction of wavering color (a symptom of the available film elements, I presume).

Langella and his cast mates have nice chemistry, while, making their respective theatrical film debuts, screenwriter Christopher Ford and director Jake Schreier have good instincts on everything from character development to sharp exchanges to compelling design.