Sentences with phrase «social commentary films»

It's one of those depressing social commentary films about how alcoholism destroys people's lives.

I had the mistaken impression that it would be another social commentary film about how tough it is to be a poor kid in the third world, a fact I empathize with but don't feel the need to see a depressing film about.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK (AP)-- George Romero, whose classic «Night of the Living Dead» and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died.

The film is a social commentary on the lengths that humans will allow fear and misunderstanding to lead to the mistreatment of another race.

This idea, of social commentary illuminating an absurd aspect of modern life, is precisely what director George Romero was stating with his pivotal film, Dawn of the Dead.

Taking pictures / working in the darkroom, writing fiction / poetry / social commentary, architecture, and even making short films or designing websites - all these things are outlets that keep me...

With Beatriz at Dinner, the prolific duo confirm their talent for social commentary and incisive wit after more than a decade of close collaborations, including indie films (Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) and TV series (Freaks and Geeks and HBO's Enlightened).

The film most superbly succeeds in its a production design and atmosphere whilst being a social commentary that is pretty poignant.

Also, the film hints at a broader social commentary, but I don't see this followed through.

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.

Peaking early, Swift never quite matched his earlier accomplishments in later years, although glimmers of his low - key social commentary could be seen in such films as Candleshoe (1977) and the short - lived TV series Grindl (1963).

There is an undercurrent of the difficult housing and job market of its era, playing on fears of couples being driven from their homes, but this tidbit is never really developed sufficiently that one could easily read social commentary into the film beyond just this notion.

Del Toro, a master of crossing genres, subtly turned his film into a commentary on American social hierarchy, including reinventing the beast as a romantic hero.

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Staring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube, the film was critically acclaimed for its style and undertone of satirical social commentary.

After I realized how this movie massages nuanced social commentary (about fetishization of the african american body, caucasian self - image, etc.) into a film «genre» that does not neatly fit into any particular category (it's neither thriller, nor horror, nor comedy, but a taste of all three), I was absolutely impressed.

The younger Cronenberg is clearly following in his father's footsteps here, delivering a nasty, queasy film loaded with social commentary and body horror.

Through his five previous feature films, Abu - Assad has established a reputation for kinetic thrills and poignant social commentary on the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.

Skipping from a neo-noir adaptation (Out of Sight) to a biopic (Che), social commentary (Traffic) to an Andrei Tarkovsky remake (Solaris), mainstream drama (Erin Brockovich) to an experimental film about prostitution (The Girlfriend Experience), Soderbergh is a man who doesn't like repeating himself.

In other hands, a zombie movie is just a zombie movie, but Land of the Dead, a horror film laced with rife with social commentary, political satire, and black humor, is not just a return to the genre he practically single - handedly created (or at least definitively redefined), but a return to form.

Topics include: using the «C - word» the most times allowed in a 15 rating, wanting to make an American action film that didn't parody anything, the social commentary on «Starbucking», the characters and the friends cast to play them, and Wright's directorial style.

This film feels kind of like what you'd expect from a collision between George Clooney and the Coen brothers: a comical noir thriller with a hefty dose of social commentary.

«Babel» will undoubtedly draw comparisons to «Crash,» what with its connect - the - dots storytelling and in - your - face social commentary, but the film is actually a lot more like last year's politically - charged globetrotter, «Syriana.»

And like with so many of the great sci - fi films she worships, she's using the genre to craft spiky political and social commentary.

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Spring Breakers ($ 14M domestic B.O.) wasn't just a film about good girls gone bad, i.e. headliner actresses Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez, but a biting social commentary on excess.

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With this, writer / directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein (making their directorial debut) look to deliver the same social commentary and relatable laughs they brought to their scripts for films like Never Been Kissed and How to Be Single.

A Halloween film with actual social commentary in it?

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.

He gobbles up the role, chews the scenery, and makes it so believable within the context of the film's social commentary that it resonates like no other performance this year.

The most charitable way to look at the film (or the play, since it's still being produced these days) is not as social commentary, or even as a reminiscence, but as a vehicle (literally, much of the time) for two actors to have fun with an odd - couple bonding narrative.

Aside from all this, The Sun Shines Bright is a marvelously entertaining film, laid back and effortlessly told, despite the social commentary and intertwining subplots.

is a marvelously entertaining film, laid back and effortlessly told, despite the social commentary and intertwining subplots.

Day - Lewis goes all out and hits the exaggerated level of the social commentary while making it utterly convincing at the same time — much like the film itself.

How the social commentary was told in such a way that no other film has done before, cleverly executed and more assured.

With the Katniss - Peeta - Gale business shoved to the background (we barely see Gale), the film runs smoothly and efficiently for its first 90 minutes, effectively mixing dark humor, social commentary, and pure story - and character - driven entertainment.

Coming from the US, I take as much as I can from films that depict a culture I am unfamiliar with, but having the opportunity to discuss the technique and story of a French drama with someone who is more than familiar with the director's work and the social commentary surrounding a film brings about a whole new understanding and experience from what I initially left the theater with.

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With its network narrative that blends crime and social commentary, La Granja echoes other Latin American films like «Amores Perros» and «Cidade de Deus.»

That he manages to mix this all with black comedy and pungent social commentary furthers the appeal of whatever this talented playwright and filmmaker serves up, and that includes his previous two films, In Bruges (for which he got a writing Oscar nomination) and the slightly overcooked Seven Psychopaths.

Though it practically qualifies as an original film, taking little from Matheson's text and teleplay (including virtually nothing in the way of social commentary), Real Steel is a tired and familiar production, hitting all the beats to tug at your heart strings but without real conviction or personality.

MaryAnn Johanson: At almost 90, French film legend Agnes Varda remains an artistic inspiration, nay, a force of nature, as she travels around rural France with photographer and muralist JR, creating art as social commentary and community project engaging everyone they encounter.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan suffers more from having nearly everyone in the film a walking stereotype, and more often than not, goes for absurd sight gags rather than reveal underlying truths beneath the ostensibly deliberate social commentary.

District 9 was an inspiration because of the way that film makes social commentary in a really clever way.

And yet it says something that I value the film more as a series of images than as a social commentary.

The dark film was a departure for MGM — known for upbeat, lavish, escapist fare — but the studio's production chief Dore Schary ushered in a period of social consciousness for the company, notes Drew Casper, film scholar and author of «Post-War Hollywood Cinema 1946 - 1962,» in his DVD commentary.

The main problem is that the film abandons its sharp social commentary for rather uninspired romantic and / or dramatic storylines.

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