Sentences with phrase «than a genre movie»

«Red Sparrow» has the nudity and sex of an erotic thriller and the stomach - churning gore of a slasher flick, but it also strives to be more than a genre movie.

Not exact matches

Scorsese has built his career on iconic gangster movies, from «Goodfellas» to «Casino,» «Mean Streets» and «The Departed,» so his return to the genre after more than a decade is cause for celebration.

His genre movie is more realistic — more capable of expressing contemporary Iranian - ness — than much of Iran's celebrated social - realist cinema.

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the...

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the horror genre.

«After BitTorrent, the effect of release lag on science - fiction and action movies is much greater than it is for other genres,» Danaher says.

All those movies I just mentioned are quite likely at least a little bit better than this one, but «World War Z» is without question the biggest thing ever done in this genre.

I enjoyed it quite a bit more than Minority Report and Children of Men, and while I doubt it will usher in a new age of sci - fi movies (the audience reaction at my showing was fairly tepid), at the very least it's a minor milestone for the genre.

I have gravely mixed feelings about every movie on Marc Forster's résumé, from «Monster's Ball» to «Stranger Than Fiction» to «The Kite Runner» to the 2008 Bond film «Quantum of Solace,» but the guy is undeniably a stylistic virtuoso with a Michael Winterbottom - like ability to jump around from one genre to another.

a ghost story that wants to be more than just a ghost story, but in the process of trying to be a movie that transcends a genre, it insults the genre

The story itself is hard to recall, in large part because it was one of the least impressive aspects of a production that was more interested in offering a Mad Magazine - type superhero movie than meekly regurgitating the genre's tropes.

While she's the reason to see this movie, the plot is also well - done, and is a more positive piece than most of the films in this genre.

This apocalyptic horror thriller is a movie that will appeal less to fans of the genre than to technophobic grumps who reckon mobile phones turn people into mindless zombies.

Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is rated higher in international film circles than «Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.

It becomes a much better movie than the original «Deadpool,» not an action bloodbath with laughs, but a knowing spoof of the superhero genre.

Rather than be choosy, the movie mines from both the best (Klute, Play Misty for Me) AND worst (Fear, No Good Deed) of the bunch, piling the tired tropes of the genre at the feet of moviegoers like a cat does dead mice.

For all the generic and simplistic stuff served up in Rampage's script (by no less than four writers, including genre - TV veteran Carlton Cuse), the movie delivers where it counts.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

A meandering, overindulgent tale of revenge that plays like an homage to a genre that never existed, Django Unchained ironically feels more bound - up than any Tarantino movie before it.

The only thing left unsliced is the ham in BloodRayne, yet another video game adaptation by German genre specialist Uwe Boll and a movie with more fading - or faded - talent than an Italian basketball team.

More of a 10 - episode movie than a traditional sitcom season, «Better Things» reminded me of the genre - busting structure of co-creator Louis C.K.'s influential hit.

It's a section of cinema that might not fill a Sunday paper but, movie for movie, has a higher batting average than most any genre.

It's a b - movie genre excursion made by people who know and love these kinds of movies, and if you're of this set, it's more treat than trick.

Of the movie references, no genre is more popular than the gangster movie (the most popular non-gangster movie references are probably The Matrix, Star Wars and, thanks mainly to the Wu - Tang Clan, various kung fu movies).

«Get Out» makes black lives matter far more than they traditionally have in movies, particularly in the horror genre, simply by depicting the reality of being a marginalized minority in white - dominated spaces.

In what is hopefully another sign that the Colin Farrell / David Tennant vampire movie will be darker than most recent entries in the genre, the MPAA has given it an R rating for «for bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references.»

The good parts are worth sitting through the slow parts — particularly if, like me, you're a sucker for the genre to begin with — but it feels less a giddy merger of what's great about TV and movies than a reluctant alliance.

As a romantic comedy, it obeys none of the traditional edicts of the genre; as a character study, it brings delirious depth to its subject; and as an Adam Sandler movie, it shows more intelligence and snap than we could have ever imagined.

He has recruited an incredible cast, including genre icon Tobin Bell, in easily his most notable post-Jigsaw role, and the elusive Jay Duplass, a respected figure in the cinema industry better known for making movies than featuring in them, let alone starring.

Blade, to the fresh eye, free of the fandom surrounding the character, comes across as the kind of film that is probably closer to a B Movie in the action genre than a superhero flick, as it is branded to be.

Sure, it's a comedy on the surface but at the same time Feig is determined to play the spy angle as straight as possible, as if Spy were simply a spy movie with jokes rather than a satire on the genre.

Like «Coraline,» it's not your traditional children's movie, and it dips more than just its toes in the scary film genre.

Be smarter, funnier, and looser than the smug, overwritten movies that tend to populate the «meta - genre» genre.

A combination of two very codified genres, the courtroom drama and the small - town homecoming movie, it's better than one would expect from the director of Shanghai Knight and Fred Claus, without being especially interesting in any regard.

FAR, far better than most movies in this genre.

They also continually hint at dark corners in their relationship, which makes this much more involving than most genre movies.

The premise involves a shapeshifting monster that stalks its targets until they have sex, passing on the curse to someone else, and though a generation ago, this would seem like a fairly clear - cut AIDS metaphor, Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genre.

«I sat down and would smoke a little weed and try to write a mind - bending horror film, my favourite genre and at some point I followed the truth and I realized there are people locked up for smoking less weed than I smoked writing the movie.»

With the zombie genre, I imagine you get the diehard fans that get really upset when a zombie movie is less than what they have in their mind.

I love a good popcorn superhero movie as much as the next guy (maybe even more than most critics), but «Logan» shows how deep one can go in the genre if they just approach it in a different way.

Rather than have a piece of genre entertainment or horrific realism, the movie starts to feel like something very, very repetitive of a lot of mediocre crime movies... or the next season of True Detective.

No molds are broken and the movie plays closer to Michael Bay than James Cameron or Paul Greengrass, but there is more weight and substance to this than most of the genre's fictional works.

Uncommonly prolific across many genres (including Westerns, swashbucklers and musicals), Hungarian - born Curtiz made more than 60 movies in Europe and more than 100 in Hollywood, arriving in 1926 at the behest of Warner Bros..

More zombie movies, games, and TV shows come out every year and there's even a growing zomromcom genre which is bigger than you think.

Wholly derivative, as most modern Westerns tend to be, this manages to be entertaining due to its likeable cast, and some wonderfully quirky writing, which was co-written by none other than John Carpenter, director of other genre - busting B - movies like Big Trouble in Little China and Assault on Precinct 13.

News has emerged as to the genre of the sequel to The LEGO Movie, and it's a little more out there than most — perhaps rather fittingly.

A stark, brutal, yet tender prison drama starring Jack O'Connell as a violent inmate sent to the same lock - up as his jailbird father (Ben Mendelsohn), the film's shot through with a raw energy and authenticity that's closer to «A Prophet» than to most other British films in the genre, with Mackenzie making the movie feel like he's bottled up a hurricane of tension, which at any second could kick through the screen at you and hit you with a sock full of snooker balls.

Anyway, rooting for genre movies as always but if they really do n`t want to award sci fi or horror again, than Social Network would do.

Indeed, relaying the tale with a standard narrative approach would have relegated the film to the realms of yet another superhero movie, rather than a spirited take on the tried and tested genre.

The truth is that Pitch Perfect is more than a movie studio cashing in on a popular talent show genre.