Sentences with phrase «surprisingly sweet film»

Bursting with (but not overburdened by) the pop culture references that are the trademark of both Hornby's fiction and the Weitz brothers» films, this wickedly funny and surprisingly sweet film may be the perfect star vehicle for Grant.

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Surprisingly, in some ways this one is the sweetest, most appealing of the three films.
Angela Robinson's fascinating and surprisingly sweet - natured film is a different sort of superhero origin story, and an appropriate bookend to this summer's «Wonder Woman.»
The film is nicely balanced between sweet fish - out - of - water comedy and frantic interstellar epic, and includes a surprisingly frank allegorical treatment of 9/11 and the ensuing wars in the Middle East.
David Frankel's «The Big Year» is as harmless as comedies come; it's not particularly funny or memorable, but it has a surprisingly sweet story at its core that makes up for the fact that, no matter how hard the film tries, the sport of birding just isn't a very exciting subject to base a movie around.
Others that we've seen and would heartily recommend include the twisted Americana fairytale Lamb, Jason Schwartzman «s other hysterical comedy 7 Chinese Brothers, Joshua Oppenheimer «s Indonesian genocide doc follow - up The Look of Silence, Kodi Smit - McPhee / Michael Fassbender neo-western Slow West, Leslye Headland «s surprisingly sweet shock - comedy Sleeping with Other People, NZ splatterhorror Deathgasm, 80s action figure throwback Turbo Kid, family road trip film Manson Family Vacation and Jemaine Clement as a semi-depressive comic book artist in People, Places, Things.
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