Sentences with phrase «so film critics»

There are far fewer movies, so film critics can see a great many in the course of a year.

Not exact matches

What critics said: «It knocks down a lot of the infrastructure the previous films had created, and it does so in a way that feels organic and refreshing for the Marvel world at large.»

Anyone familiar with the more intellectual forms of pop criticism (whether of music or film) will recognize it as a parody of the Rolling Stone critic — a parody so good that, for a moment, one is almost convinced the piece is the real thing:

Furthermore, they can easily parody the whole position so that (as one critic, a friend of mine who is not unsympathetic to the wider process conceptuality, has phrased it) talk about divine memory may be taken as nothing more than indicating God's continually re-playing some old film or continually listening to some old soundtrack.

A film critic always hates to admit that he hasn't seen a film, so I was relieved when the movie turned out to...

A film critic always hates to admit that he hasn't seen a film, so I was relieved when the movie turned out to be Cinema Paradiso.

(December is the busy season for film critics and for college professors, and I'm both, so you'll forgive me for being a few weeks late to the table on this.)

Typically film studios won't release their top films until late in the calendar year so the film will be fresh in the heads of both critics and voters.

Critics Consensus: While superbly acted and stylishly filmed, Hannibal lacks the character interaction between the two leads which made the first movie so engrossing.

So far the critics are being kind to Quentin Tarantino's bloody Western - down - South, singing the praises of the film's stellar cast and its fierce yet disturbingly funny confrontation with the most shameful chapter of American history.

That's right, Ryan Gosling fans, with this film, Refn first got his Danish derrière (Oh, wait, that's French) over here to America, and you know what, that was the time critics decided to question some of his storytelling methods, either because foreign films are much easier to forgive for their pretentiousness - I mean, «experimental artistic vision», or simply because Refn had so little of an idea on how to bring his visions to America that he decided to get John Turturro, of all people, as his lead.

Critic Consensus: While superbly acted and stylishly filmed, Hannibal lacks the character interaction between the two leads which made the first movie so engrossing.

Despite scattered favorable notices, most critics despised the picture (Roger Ebert remarked, «Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of will to keep me in the theater»), but it soared at the box and became one of the top grossers for several weekends.

This one of my favorite films and everyone I know loves it so screw you critics the fans have spoken!

So tragically underrated, but here's why, I think: Crude, lowbrow humor, and buffoonish, one - dimensional characters were glaringly off - putting to seasoned film critics at the time of the

So in that way, I'm on a completely different level than critics are for this film.

Lauren has received good reviews for his lead performance, but the film hasn't won over critics so far.

Ramin Bahrani has enjoyed the praise of critics for each of his first three films (Man Push Cart 71, Chop Shop 83, Goodbye Solo 89), so expectations were high for his latest, an Iowa farm - set drama about a family's struggles with each other and the American Dream.

The pie charts represent the percentages of films that were deemed by critics to be good (Metascore of 61 or above), so - so (40 - 60) and bad (39 or lower).

So who's to say that Todd Solondz or Skip Woods or Peter Berg or Danny Boyle or Robert Frank or Lance Mungia or John Dahl or Vincenzo Natali couldn't very well go on to have some quite significant bodies of work... or at the very least become a film critic.

Quick review: «The Shallows» No film may have gotten a bigger pass from consumer movie critics so far this summer than «The Shallows» (don't worry «The BFG» is right around the corner).

It really pissed people off, made so many viewers angry, and made many critics just outright hate the film.

In addition, see what critics have to say about the film, so far.

As you can see, it's not all doom and gloom from the critics so far, but even the first positive Dracula Untold reviews out of the gate aren't exactly tripping over themselves to praise the film.

They may not have seen the film yet, but they were tired of critics slating their beloved universe after not - so - nice reviews for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice earlier this year.

Fox announces their distrust of critics with this title by splaying «Property of 20th Century Fox Publicity Department» in huge letters across the screen for the duration of the film on both sides of the disc (the first time a major studio has done so since DreamWorks sent out advanced copies of the Gladiator Signature Selection in 2000 — which is why you never saw a review of it at FILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment of the imfilm on both sides of the disc (the first time a major studio has done so since DreamWorks sent out advanced copies of the Gladiator Signature Selection in 2000 — which is why you never saw a review of it at FILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment of the imFILM FREAK CENTRAL), in turn prohibiting an ethical assessment of the image.

So this week the magazine Sight & Sound posted the results of their poll which involved 846 critics chiming in on what they believe the be the greatest films of all time.

Look at «The Hangover», because the first film was so well liked the sequel became an even bigger hit, but because the sequel was considered to be inferior by critics in general, the 3rd film really suffered and paid the price as it came nowhere near the previous films domestic box office grosses.

You wrote another subjective opinion I hated about SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK - a weird thing for a critic who is assigned to review films to do - so clearly the precedent is set and all of your subjective opinions are null and void.

What makes Ruby Sparks so promising is that it is directly challenging the Manic Pixie Dream Girl construct that critic Nathan Rabin identified in his 2007 article on the Cameron Crowe film Elizabethtown:

It's not a masterpiece, I think the critics were too fair too it, it's by far an over rated ghost flick, but it does so much with so little resources and proves M Night Shymalan knew how to make films before recent lacklusters like The Last Airbender.

At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, The Tribe won the Critics» Week Grand Prize; however, viewers should be prepared for a difficult watch — not so much in determining what's going on, but in the film's controversial depictions of teens having explicit sex and committing brutal acts of violence.

«Toxie,» as he's called by punk bands and pop film critics everywhere, has become so famous since his introduction in 1984 that you can now buy Toxic Avenger action figures, games, Topps trading cards, and even designer jewelry — all this in tribute to a head - crushing killer whose face looks like it's been bashed in with a bag of nickels, impaled with a turkey fork and barbecued on a George Foreman grill.

Sundance 2017 IndieWire Critics Poll: Alex Heeney The Seventh Row FULL RESULTS: Sundance 2017 IndieWire Critics Poll Best New Climate film: Chasing Coral Best Ensemble: Mudbound, Their Finest So many great queer romances!

Few film genres have been so critically despised and disparaged by film critics as the Ancient World epic.

While it's true that much will rest on how the critics see these films, there is no doubt that these two roles, along with Christine, Queen of Katwe, and Florence Foster Jenkins stand out from the pack because it is so unusual now to see women cast this way, much less written about in this way.

After all, the film is already shattering box office records and receiving glowing reviews from critics, so it's safe to say Marvel Studios has a pretty firm grasp on what works and what's better left to our imaginations.

While I'm a fan of the divisive space epic Prometheus, there's no denying that with critics and audiences alike Scott has been in quite a steep rough patch these past few years and so it's with no shortage of competition that I say that his latest, Exodus: Gods and Kings, is easily the worst film of his 40 - year career.

Coming - of - Age films are typically big hits with not only critics but audiences as well but what makes Eighth Grade so special is that it is told from a female point of view which is surprisingly still a rarity in film.

Fall film festival reviews for Tom Hooper's transgender true story were so - so, with critics damning it with faint praise, calling it «well - meaning» and «tasteful.»

You may have heard that Paddington 2 was not only the BEST REVIEWED FILM of 2017 but in all of Rotten Tomatoes history... we saw it feature on a number of respected critics» top 10 lists and we want to know what all the fuss is about so, keeping in line with the explicit, fringe and classic programming you've come to grow and love from Academy we've decided to put on a Paddington double feature....

Hong's 2015 film Right Now, Wrong Then is beloved by critics, so his latest is highly anticipated among that contingent, at the very least.

So far the film has taken home Cannes» Golden Eye Documentary prize, the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. kudo, the New York Film Critics Circle award and recently scored an Independent Spirit nomination.

But with three months to go until the Academy Awards, most of the qualifying films are in theaters or screening for critics and the night's so - called big six are beginning to look a little clearer.

Because so many people have access to do it, everybody's a film critic.

And if this were a film that had all of the same scenes, in the same order, but was strictly fictional without any reference to America's most wanted man, I don't think the same critics who love it now would remain quite so enamored.

Its attackers have mainly been the I - was - in - Nam - so - I - know school who, not being film critics, have ignored any considerations as piffling as those of art.

Yet, doing so would also require that the industry (and critics) embrace the fact that most of such films would, at least initially, be rather underwhelming if not outright bad: after all, it is only through repeatedly practicing the craft of genre filmmaking that, over time, a film industry can elevate its game and make reliably solid films in any given genre — films that can hold their own when compared to those from other nations that excel at genre filmmaking, including Hollywood (the genre filmmaking tradition par excellence), France, South Korea, or Hong Kong.

So the Los Angeles Film Critics Association voted «WALL - E» best film of the year.

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