Sentences with phrase «sharp social satire»

Ungerer is now internationally renowned for his etched caricatures imbued with sharp social satire — a style maintained in his children's books, which he began to publish with Harper and Row in 1957.

The paintings are a sharp social satire as much as they are a loving tribute to the world the artist knows best: the international art scene.

YA / General Interest: The sharp social satire will not be lost on teens, who by nature are among the world's most observant social critics.

An indie director before the term was widely used, George Romero carved his own niche in the horror genre by brilliantly marrying over-the-top blood and guts with sharp social satire.

Not exact matches

He might have been well advised to have kept The Lobster within the confines of the resort hotel; inside those boundaries the screenplay functions as a sharp satire of social attitudes on relationships — especially the doubtful pairing of couples and the tendency to ostracize singles.

Cowritten by Brooks and Monica Johnson, this satire of Hollywood is embellished with sharp, frequently hilarious observation of its ritual humiliations and shallow social and professional interactions, with notable contributions from Jeff Bridges as a self - absorbed Oscar - winning screenwriter friend, Steven Wright as Stan Spielberg («I'm Steven's cousin»), and Martin Scorsese in a self - parodying cameo.

As social satire, it is as sharp as they come.

The film contains sharp satire on the narcissistic pitfalls of social media, and also manages to subvert the tired dude rallying cry of «Bros before Hos» by putting sisters ahead of misters.

This sharp and insightful social satire is an all - too - timely look at race relations in America, as three ostensibly liberal and definitely privileged Berkeley students from various backgrounds travel with a friend and classmate to his home in rural Georgia — just in time for a Civil War re-enactment.

These form a sharp and savagely humorous satire of social and racial stereotypes and here are accompanied by multiple TV monitors showing fragments of footage shot during the 2010 student protests against government cuts.