Sentences with phrase «spiritual lead in films»

Not exact matches

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

But while the film shows more promise than its spiritual predecessor in the early stages, its overdependence on the love story between its two leads prevents «Beautiful Creatures» from distinguishing itself as anything other than an unfortunate «Twilight» wannabe.