Sentences with phrase «solid pieces of film»

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A solid piece of storytelling that doesn't pander, skips the usual POW stereotypes and allows the film to work reasonably well as an epic of war, a survival story, a prison thriller, a murder mystery and a courtroom drama.

Ghost Protocol is solid action cinema that thanks to several thrilling, if over long set pieces, plus a healthy sense of irony is almost on a par with the first film.

Movies like Leon: The Professional and even Jason Bourne echo throughout the film's exhausting proceedings, but whereas those films had a certain edge in their approach, not to mention solid action set pieces and, most important of all, expressive performances, The Hunter's Prayer serves to be a shoddily - executed version in comparison.

The story here is fairly basic, and ultimately it's all built to bolster the film's pervasive action sequences, but director Paul W.S.Anderson still managed to craft a solid piece of escapist sci - fi around it all, and in the end, the film entirely held my interest.

I, Daniel Blake is one of Loach's best and most unrelenting films, and Jarmusch's labor - of - love documentary on the rock group The Stooges, Gim me Danger is a solid piece of work.

A solid cast of comedy actors lend their voices to the supporting characters, including Michael Peña, Kumail Nanjiani, Abbi Jacobson, Zach Woods and Fred Armisen, but the film loses them in the cacophony of kung fu movie references, colourful action and fitfully funny comic set pieces.

What makes Three Billboards... McDonagh's most well - rounded, likeable piece of work, is that the framework holding all those solid, well - written characters together feels delicately honed and precise; there is no fat on the bones of this film, and editor Jon Gregory deserves plaudits for keeping the whole thing moving while still allowing time for the script to indulge, in a good way, in its characters.

That David is duplicitous comes as no surprise, but what is unexpected is the painful lack of solid action set pieces in the film.

While most people would agree Scott Stewart «s 2010 film Legion isn't exactly a masterful piece of cinema, the film's idea is rock solid.

The small miracle of it, then, is that in both its absolute glee in finding the line of how much gore to show and then crossing it (a pair of glasses stop a hypodermic needle... but only for a moment) and its surprising efforts at locating a deeper thread in a frayed brother / sister relationship and the impact of drug addiction, Alvarez's film is a solid, even affecting genre piece that allows for an abundance of memorable money shots.

Though it received a fairly solid 68 percent on — please stop reading here if you're Martin Scorsese — Rotten Tomatoes, it was deeply polarizing, throttled by some critics as «the worst film of the century,» and hailed by others as a wholly unique, engaging piece of art.