Sentences with phrase «social satire»

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

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.

It makes for a sharp and entertaining social satire.

Get Out, a whip smart social satire, all dressed up as a deeply unsettling horror, was one of the best films of 2017.

Now in its 20th Season, South Park remains one of the most powerful forces of social satire on the air today.

The film attempts to juxtapose extremely heightened, broad farce with social satire in a period setting along with dark subject matters such as cannibalism and incest.

Sorry to Bother You is clearly mixing in social satire with its hallucinogenic humour.

Satirical Story with Divergent Paths and Multiple Endings Playing off common anime and video game tropes for social satire, the player's choices determine how the story progresses, leading to one of many unique endings.

A terrific work of political and social satire set in a Nebraska high school that has the intelligence of (the less coherent) «Rushmore,» while painting a much darker picture of politics and human relationships.

In the translation from two to three dimensions, and in the hands of director Matthew Vaughn, the redeeming social satire gets entirely lost in the chaos of bad taste and underlying misogyny.

«Hollinghurst writes harsh but deeply informed social satire from within, just as Proust did.

It's a macabre and inspired conceit, and one mined for biting social satire by writer / director Brian Taylor on his first solo outing since his gonzo collaborations with Mark Neveldine (the Crank films, Gamer), which similarly provoked and parodied cultural bugaboos.»

Colin Farrell must get hitched or die tryin» in this brilliant, bizarre social satire costarring Rachel Weisz

Writer / director Boots Riley has dropped a bomb on Sundance with Sorry To Bother You, a searing social satire and the most eccentric directorial debut in years.

From the lurid antics of the Big Little Lies women to the savage social satire of Get Out; from the emo awakening of Lady Bird to the sea creature - romancing fantasy of The Shape of Water, it's set to be an interesting ceremony.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Amnesiac Adjusts to Soulless Utopia in Wry Social Satire Suppose you were suffering from amnesia and suddenly found yourself inexplicably welcomed to an unfamiliar city you don't recognize by soulless strangers who inform you that you're an accountant before escorting you to your new home.

The intention is there, a writer and director attempting to combine social satire with spectacle feature draw to tell a pressing story about the dangers of global climate change and the everyday dangers immigrant face, but Downsizing just never really evolves into a proper whole.

Writer - director Jordan Peele won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for this pointed social satire dressed in the blood - spurting trappings of a contemporary horror flick.

The screenplay by Alan Zweibel and Andrew Scheinman packs more on - target social satire than any film in recent memory, and zesty performances keep it clicking along at a rapid pace.

A bit Alexander Payne social satire, a bit Mike Judge's «Office Space,» «The Promotion» keeps the laughter mostly low - key while addressing deflating truths about occupational angst - writer / director Steve Conrad's sturdy thematic stock - in - trade.

May 20, 2018 • In his first solo album in six years, Cooder injects social satire into his refurbished work of traditional American gospel music.

«Get Out» injects social satire into the slasher - flick genre; Peter Travers on why Jordan Peele's race - relations horror film is an instant classic.

From his days spoofing President Obama on the Comedy Central sketch series «Key & Peele» to writing and directing one of the most talked about movies of 2017 — the smash horror / social satire hybrid «Get Out» — Jordan Peele seems to have his finger on the pulse of America.

None of this is true of Loves of a Blonde, which remains an amazing balancing act of subtle social satire and adolescent romantic longing, of blank despair and irrepressible hope.

I'm not sure which group I'll end up in, but Korine has definitely perked my interest with his sumptuous visuals and timely social satire.

He cannily mixes social satire and genre twists in his clever screenplay of an unlikely friendship between two men with more history than they realize; his dialogue has a bite and an unforced wit that hovers somewhere between B - movie gangster dramas and buddy pictures.

The story of a 16 - year - old girl who gets pregnant could easily be the jumping point for broad social satire, but Cody respects her characters too much to mistreat them so.

Sally Potter's scathing social satire The Party, shot in black and white in three claustrophobic rooms is a gem, and thankfully short given the compression of nerves and tears and emotion.

Social satire oftentimes needs to have less whimsy and more importance to get up for major Oscars.

While Happy End will most likely be eclipsed by Haneke's own formidable shadow in the eventual endless comparisons of what has come before, this is still wickedly superb social satire, and the little bit of sugar evident in his latest formulation only allows the lacerations to cut deeper.

A wonderful social satire, a send - up of the cult of the dead author, and - in the best tradition of Frame - a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language.

Having co-written and co-starred in the wonderful Sightseers, Steve Oram makes his directorial debut with this utterly bizarre comedy horror that blends social satire, surreal domestic fantasy, gross - out comedy and wince - inducing gore to winning effect.

The bishops» board later gave the «meandering social satire» an L for its «stylized violence, implied marital infidelity, and leering sexual situations.»

Scenes of Joe fighting with contractors or negotiating rectory politics are pure comedy of manners, while scenes that take place at «the Great Badger, the Discount House with a heart,» veer more toward social satire.

Jordan Peele's horror - themed social satire Get Out and Christopher Nolan's WWII epic Dunkirk combined for 12 Oscar nominations, and now, they're heading back to theaters so you can see what all of the buzz is about.

I love social satire.

«Conquest of the Planet of the Apes» is cinematically etched in broad, brash strokes slashing social satire and science fiction suspense with large - scale spectacle.

Has a profoundly whimsical sense of poetic justice told in bright colors, sincere performances, and bracing social satire.

The following year, she had a small role in Harold French's social satire English Without Tears.

So the message of «Beatriz at Dinner» has merits beyond this curtailed social satire's running time.

This savage social satire revels in the brutality and gore and plays it for dark comedy and gallows humor, a teen melodrama gone feral as cliques fall apart under fire and young love is literally under the gun.

An effervescent social satire that pokes fun at all sides in the class war.

A scabrous, provocative and often funny social satire about the American dream, Spike LeeSpike Lee's flawed but fascinating She Hate Me addresses everything from corporate malfeasance to the African AIDS epidemic, barely catching its breath in - between.

The versatile actor (who dons a much different uniform in The Messenger, an Iraq War — related drama opening here later this month) is the principal reason to see Defendor, an engaging social satire that doesn't quite pay off.

In addition to directing the George Clooney headlined social satire / thriller Money Monster, Foster has called the shots on episodes of Netflix series House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, and Black Mirror over that period of time.