Sentences with phrase «smarter than the genre»

Not exact matches

Be smarter, funnier, and looser than the smug, overwritten movies that tend to populate the «meta - genre» genre.

British director Ben Wheatley is too smart to make nice little genre films — and his scattershot yet monotonous latest, Free Fire, is worse than that.

It wasn't a hit when it came out — director John Flynn was better with character than action and never really gets the blood pumping through it — but it is still a smart, lean thriller and a minor gem of the modern crime genre.

Now, that might mean a movie that's marginally less dopey than most mainstream films that deal with the occult, but in the days of this and Rosemary's Baby, etc., the emphasis was much more on smart than on genre.

What has as its foundation a complicated bit of metaphysics is CGI - enhanced, genre - slotted, and «atmosphered» into stultified incoherence («spooky red light» should get a credit in the cast listing)-- and all the while Carrey, as is his inclination, begins to overcompensate for a project that, we presume, he discovered he was a lot smarter than too late.

Hollywood pro William Wellman directed more than 80 films in every genre over the course of four decades, but for my money, he was never more interesting than in the early sound era, where his energy and audacity powered over a dozen short, sharp, street - smart films filled with saucy sexiness and startling violence and mixed with varying measures of social commentary.

Still, this tale of a high school boy whose party to woo the girl of his dreams is ruined by a zombie invasion is smarter and more fun than most micro-budget genre fare.

Do you think it's not smart to write in more than one genre, especially when the genres are disparate.