Sentences with phrase «social thriller about»

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»

Jordan Peele's social thriller about the literal horrors of bodily racism is still one of 2017's most unforgettable films.

Not exact matches

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 feature is equal parts thriller and social commentary about an unfeeling and uncaring health system.

Molly's Game (***) Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing, The Social Network) marks his directing debut with this tense crime / drama / thriller about Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a young woman who turns a job as a personal assistant to an obnoxious young boss into a proprietor role, organizing high - stakes Hollywood poker games that make her wealthy and hounded by the FBI.

Damien Chazelle has taken a relatively staid subject like the relationship between a music student and his teacher and turned it into a thriller built on a brilliant undercurrent of social commentary about what it takes to make it in an increasingly competitive and cutthroat world.

Jordan Peele didn't make any friends in the HFPA when he appeared to complain about his social thriller «Get Out» being slotted in the comedy category, but it's hard to imagine that voters will take it out on him and not nominate one of the year's biggest sensations.

The quirk - fueled comedy - thriller about a bunch of thieves getting hunted down by one very pissed off woman and her eccentric neighbor balanced absolute hilarity with clever social commentary.

If «Moonlight,» an indie film about a gay black man growing up in impoverished Miami, a movie made for $ 1.5 million, could win best picture, then why not «Get Out,» a social thriller examining race?

If you go into this expecting a slick, international thriller with some relevant social commentary about relations between the United States and Mexico, the state of corporate greed and how bad things often happen to good people — well, there's a LITTLE bit of that stuff lightly sprinkled in.

Canadians have always been at the vanguard of zombie movies, from Bob Clark's Deathdream, an inspired variation on the «Monkey's Paw» myth about a reanimated soldier returning to his family, to David Cronenberg's still - amazing Rabid, which cross-bred George A. Romero's gory social satire with soft - core titillation, to Bruce McDonald's underseen, language - is - the - virus thriller Pontypool.

Foremost was Get Out, Jordan Peele's «social thriller» about a black man visiting his white girlfriend's parents» home for the weekend, which earned four nominations.

And it became looking at movies that have figured out the social thriller, so, «Rosemary's Baby,» «The Stepford Wives,» the way those movies made very elegant but fun statements about gender, that was a signal to me that you could pull that off with race.

Peele's directorial debut, «Get Out,» in theaters Friday, Feb. 24, is one of those rare creations that functions both as a taut psychological thriller and as searing social commentary about racism in the modern era.

This brilliant satirical horror - thriller has loads of social commentary about racism in modern America, but under the surface it also has subtle symbolism and twists in its writing and presentation — with a few characters struggling with regret.

Too many spirited conversations with colleagues and young members of the movie industry, too much excited chitchat about how everything had changed, too many tweets riven with Sunken Place GIFs, and too much wonder over what it would mean for the future of the Oscars if the show could follow its historic Moonlight moment with a genuinely transgressive acknowledgment of Jordan Peele's social - thriller - horror - comedy - documentary as best in class.

, a thriller about a group of teens from different social groups who are trapped at school during a blizzard.

In film, we speak with Alastair Siddons about his new release In The Dark Half — a feature that spans across genres from fantasy to horror, and from thriller to social realism.