Sentences with phrase «sharp little film»

This is a sharp little film, smart and funny and bitter and yes, even genuinely engaging as a mystery.

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Douglas» seamless continuation of the sharp and witty Gekko is the film's main asset and a number of unexpected twists, despite being a little rratic, maintain the audience's interest throughout the duration.

Vastly inferior to the other Karloff - Lugosi vehicles from Universal, but it's actually a pretty sharp little horror film — and of some note historically.

Directed by Nick Gomez, this little film is full of Jerry Springish characters residing in Verplank, New York - a small, simple community experiencing a sudden sharp rise in suspicious deaths.

He hits up the same sharp - dressed guy three times for a little help (director John Huston, in one of the many classic cameos in his films), receives a tongue - lashing, and hunches down a little more, recouping a little bit of «big» in offering a cigarette to Curtin, another Yankee down - and - outer on a park bench.

In the case of The Strange Little Cat, an extended family - dinner gathering becomes an exquisitely layered confection ready for writer - director Ramon Zürcher's razor - sharp slicing... Fans of Béla Tarr and Franz Kafka will find much to love as will devotees of The Berlin School, of which this film represents a third - generation evolution.»

The film has a little more grain than you might expect of such a 2016 big budget behemoth, but everything looks as it should and the images are sharp, crisp, and suitably detailed.

The acting is sharp, as is the filmmaking, so it's frustrating that there's so little in the film that resonates with present - day audiences.

With its sharp - edged political assessment of American culture, Tragedy Girls is a subversive little provocation that clearly establishes itself as one of the year's best genre films, and its reputation, like Sadie and McKayla's, is destined to soar.

Viewed through the retrospective filter of both the US's Gitmo - ised» 2000s foreign policy and countless subsequent race - to - excess «torture porn» flicks, Audition's last reel might now seem a little tamer in its effect — but this just allows all that precedes it to come into sharper focus, revealing a film of two very distinct (and distinctly colour - coded) halves.

Samuel Fuller spent most of his career in B pictures, creating ultrapersonal, formula - defying films that got little notice from workaday reviewers but impressed sharp critics like Andrew Sarris and Manny Farber.

Written and directed by actors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash — who won an Oscar in 2011 for their adapted screenplay of The Descendants — the film is sharp, and tender, and extremely funny, with the kind of accessible - indie vibe that characterized such seasonal sleepers as Little Miss Sunshine and 500 Days of Summer.