Sentences with phrase «skepticism of films like»

But unlike the rigorous skepticism of films like Blood Simple, Fargo, and Burn After Reading, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore uses its allegorical narrative to further a simplistic political message meant to give it an aura of timely social commentary.

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With the hardy skepticism of past films like Sideways and Election, and a streak of Frank Capra grandeur, Payne and his writing partner Jim Taylor cook up a parable for our technology - ruled, self - help - obsessed, woke - but - not society, one anchored by Damon's wayward everyman, but rattled and roused by Chau as a disabled Vietnamese activist who, after being forced into a impoverished, downsized existence, still keeps her head above the existential waters.

The anti-electronics message would also meet with skepticism by today's audiences, as most of the groups of younger viewers that flock to a film like Pulse are already completely enrapt in this world of digital communications, probably texting messages to their friends before, after, and during the film itself.

At the 40 films I attended, audience response split between enthusiasm and skepticism, the latter because «hosting» seemed like an awfully demure term for the colonial history motivating these words, the rhetoric of unclear value to the indigenous communities who were its ostensible dedicatees.

While there's some natural skepticism about remakes, especially for a film like What We Do in the Shadows that's so funny because of the acting and distinct personalities, Waititi's involvement feels very promising.