Sentences with phrase «surprisingly powerful film»

An impressive indie - noir from a first - time filmmaker who takes a simple idea and turns it into a surprisingly powerful film.

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This powerful but surprisingly humorous film tells the true story of Jeff Bauman, who lost...

The film's most resonant graphic — cleverly superimposing the economy's rollercoaster rises and dips over an image of the Golden Gate Bridge — is powerful and surprisingly emotional.

This shot of the hands of Mother of George's surprisingly powerful co-conspirators (heroine Adenike, played by Dani Gurira, and matriarch Ma Ayo, played by Bukky Ayaji) contains so much of what makes the film thematically and aesthetically transcendent.

The Elephant King story, which is related in chunks throughout the film, too often disrupts the flow of the main story, and its ultimate purpose — to help explain the whereabouts of Parvana's missing older brother — feels surprisingly arbitrary for what should be an emotionally powerful moment.