Sentences with phrase «superior films in»

About Elly is a superior film in both regards and I can't wait to see more of Farhadi's stuff if this is par for the course which is what I've heard it is

Not exact matches

And many, many sequels aren't executed with the thought or care of their far - superior original films, especially in series that have stretched over many years — as one sees in the chasm of quality between «The Terminator» (1984) and «Terminator Genisys» (2015).

In the early 1968's, the National Council of Churches radically revised its approach to the film industry, moving from a self - serving pietism to a support for artistically superior films that deal honestly with the human condition.

This film is a great choice for anyone looking for something that offers superior privacy in a way that blends seamlessly into their home.

Yet despite an 80-fold gain in yield as electronic image detectors replaced photographic film, even the Hale's superior muscle power fell short.

The latter probably gives the best performance in the film, and the fact that he also starred in the far superior «Bright Young Things» makes you realize how much this movie is lacking.

Oh, it certainly provided superior visuals, as I found myself impressed with all the details I'd not previously noticed in the film.

Having already directed the first two (and superior) X-Men films, Singer shows a level of comfort with both the material and the cast, and he contributes at least one brilliant comic set piece in which new mutant Quicksilver (Evan Peters) lays waste to a kitchen full of security guards in languorous, Matrix - style bullet time (it looks gorgeous and has the slapstick choreography of a Three Stooges routine).

The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.

This is not to say the «other» is always morally superior or anything, but it's a crucial fact in understanding apartheid that, it bears repeating, it was the NATIVE population, the MAJORITY of the country (do the aliens outnumber the humans in this film?)

Very 70's TV movie but with a superior cast, Nimoy is okay but watch it for the chance to see three great actresses, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, and Vera Miles together in one film.

For those who don't mind a little blood & gore and a lot of profanity, Free Fire is a superior alternative to the big - name, bloated action films hogging the largest screens in most multiplexes.

Like the (far superior) recent Russian film «Elena,» Child's Pose paints a compelling portrait of post-Soviet capitalism in all its uncorked appetites, its brash cronyism and graft, its pretensions, its clueless philistinism.

Much like the love potion in this film you will quickly ignore this lovefest in favor of other more superior films.

Compare this to the 80's revamp «InnerSpace» and this film is far superior in my humble opinion.

While Anon doesn't boast a superior story, it's engaging in the way many B - grade noir films from the «40s and «50s were — pulpy excursions into the dark side of human nature with hard - bitten heroes and duplicitous femmes fatale.

The film is burdened by its cliché - ridden nagging on the theme of the lone underling victimized for his pioneering vision by unimaginative superiors — but one, nonetheless, fascinating in its detail.

Definitely still beating a dead dinosaur here, but the film is leaner, more exciting and superior in every way to the last outing.

I've been more impressed with other dragon films to be truthful, I think the dragons in «Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire» and «Reign of Fire» were far superior to this frankly, and the dragon in «Dragonslayer» still impresses.

It is also an interesting political take on the chain of command in the military, lampooning the superior officers as incompetent fools, despite having their hearts in the right place, the film manages to successfully create sympathy for Col. Berman (Ed Harris) in that despite his general inability to do the job, he is actually well liked.

If I describe the superior craftsmanship of «Unbroken» — the stunning cinematography is by the great Roger Deakins, Alexandre Desplat composed the soaring score — in a way that makes the end results seem more like a convertible than a movie, it's because the film boasts both sheen and efficiency without always delivering an equivalent emotional impact.

If these sections could have been bridged in a better way than this could have been a far superior film than it turned out to be.

Filmed in 2.35:1 Panavision and originally released in four - track magnetic stereo sound (a rarity in 1975, a period in which nearly all movies were mono), the movie was all but impossible to appreciate on television and even subsequent superior home video formats like laserdisc.

The metafiction in «Stranger than Fiction» might not be as clever as «Adaptation» (or even Neil LaBute's underappreciated «Nurse Betty»), but this imitative screenplay of a superior film is better than, say, «EdTV», which was a byproduct of «The Truman Show».

Winslet herself got a well - deserved prize, though I can't help wishing that she had been awarded it for her performance in Revolutionary Road: a better performance in a far superior film.

And while Chloe Moretz was excellent in Kick - Ass, this film is far superior.

But its uninspiring, aimless plot is the film's downfall, in what, mid-way through, turns into an unintentional parody of TV's superior supernatural nail - biter «Les Revenants» (The Returned).

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

The lineup for this year's Cannes Film Festival (or as they call it in France, Festival de Cannes) has been announced and it is robust with Oscar bait, highly - anticipated premieres, star - studded features, and a lot of foreign and obscure films that if watched, will make you feel cinematically superior to everyone else.

So no great surprise here that The Lincoln Lawyer turns out to be superior piece of crime storytelling with some characters clearly designed for recurring roles (in other novels and perhaps other films should this one do well) while others are designated for showy guest appearances as larger - than - life evildoers or tough - guy eccentrics.

Such inadequacies would be acceptable, if not expected, in any of Affleck's prior disposable action flicks, but as a newly minted director of superior films (Gone Baby Gone), and being that The Town vaguely aims for something higher, the result is a disappointment.

The absence of the slaves in this film reveals the consequences of racial and cultural arrogance in the South, and how they don't know who they are or what to do with themselves if they can't feel superior to someone.

There's a reasonable base of material, but 55 minutes is far too long to present it in its best light, and it's a pity that this film - one which seems most unlikely to have a lengthy soundtrack made up exclusively of original score - is the one whose music has been released, when the infinitely - superior Remember the Titans score is unreleased.

A role in Captain Marvel would interesting, as he's played military characters before and if the film focuses on Carol's time in the military they'll be plenty of male roles to fill for her peers and superiors.

Mad Max: Fury Road is not just superior to everything in this franchise, it's among the most exhausting, thrilling, visceral action films ever made.

The similarities should end there, as there's no question that The Descent is the superior film, working mainly due to the investment in building up the characters for the first half, while also putting in a cast of solid actresses in each role.

Still, Rebecca is clearly a superior classic film, one that is immensely engrossing, leaving you forever haunted by its memory, much the way Rebecca does to those she left behind in this terrific story from Daphne du Maurier's novel.

Tarantino exploded on the film stage in 1992 with the brilliant Reservoir Dogs, before following that up with the superior Pulp Fiction, for which he won his first Academy Award.

For the most part, the film looks true to its seamy quality, and at any rate, the unrated version looks vastly superior to the material that fills in the included director's cut, all of which was clearly gathered from inferior sources.

The film appears as interested in developing the strange relationship between Korben and the two young women as it is in exploring the possibility that Kate can really speak with spirits (for a far superior TIFF film that explores this idea, see Olivier Assayas» «Personal Shopper» starring Kristen Stewart).

The AMPAS allowed for an embracing of the New American cinema with their awards for Best Picture and Best Director for «Midnight Cowboy» in 1969, and only they had the courage (and the smarts) to recognize that «The Godfather Part II» was a superior film to the first in handing it the same two trophies.

«Only the Brave» devotes the first half of its 2 hour, 15 minute runtime to allowing us to get to know these three and a few other main characters: firefighter Chris (Taylor Kitsch) and Eric's superior Duane (played by Jeff Bridges, who even does a bit of singing in the film).

The screenplay by Michael Markowitz, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein goes about the expected route in regards to the protagonists» superiors, etching three separate portraits of bosses whose very existences seem to fly in the face of the basic decency of humanity (not to mention a responsible human resources department), but it's in the central characters» actions that the film truly finds its edge.

Rumours abound that Tom Cruise, angered by preview audiences who rated Emmanuelle Beart's performance in Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible (1996) superior to his, cut out as many of Beart's scenes as possible: although De Palma denies this, there is a smoking gun, for the trailers contain shots of Cruise and Beart making love, something that never happens in the released film.

In three weeks... Look out for superior British horror thriller Kill List... Terrence Malick's dazzling keynote film Days Of Heaven is reissued...

Though he was adequate to the task in the far superior District 9, here he almost ruins the film, as his (lack of) star power and impenetrable South African accent create a void where there should be an equal presence to match Damon's.

There's also a number of errors (or what I perceive to be errors) in terms of how long the alien gestates for in Covenant versus the original Alien, and how come the technology in Covenant is far superior to the original film?

Jack O'Connell will finally reach a wide audience in Angelina Jolie «s Unbroken, but he gives a much better performance in David Mackenzie «s far superior film, Starred Up.

I've never been a huge fan of David Lean's epics and think the modest British films he did in the 1940s are superior.

However, there is a fervent following for this sequel, and it has its own fans who champion it as the superior film, for its smart satire and tongue - in - cheek sassiness.