«Scott Weinberg has had a profound impact on the psyche of my career more
than any other film critics out there,» says James Wan, director Saw and The Conjuring, in his exclusive introduction.
Not exact matches
It was on more
critics top 10 lists
than any
other animated
film by a mile, and much loved by viewers, how does it not get a nom?
They were also better
than those of any
other major studio, leaving Disney the only one of the seven majors to receive a grade higher
than a C. Interestingly, Disney's three Marvel - related
films (including Big Hero 6, which is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe) were not just the studio's highest - grossing releases, but were also the highest - scoring Disney
films with
critics.
However, I've yet to hear much personal discussion on it from anyone
other than the
critics and it would seem that Farhadi has still some way to go before he gets the recognition he deserves among your average
film enthusiast.
Considering that Smith claims that he made this
film for teen girls, not for one moment does Yoga Hosers feel like anything
other than a mid-40s writer / director shaking his fist at a younger phone - desperate generation, making inside jokes for the adults in the audience and lambasting the
critics that have wronged him in the past.
Men
critics in areas
other than film wrote an average of 6
film reviews whereas women with this job title wrote an average of 3
film reviews.
These findings indicate that men hold the higher status titles of
film critic or
critic in categories
other than film including television
critic, music
critic, theatre
critic, pop culture
critic, and media
critic.
Not only are women outnumbered as
film critics, staff writers,
other types of
critics, and freelancers, women also review fewer
films on average
than men.
But if A24 could pull off the biggest surprise Best Picture win in ages with Moonlight, whose budget was just $ 4 million, we probably can't eliminate Florida for being too small, especially as
critics heap greater praise on it
than any
other film this year.
While the
film is being praised by
other critics (higher marks
than both previous Avengers
films) you don't see much happening here that we haven't already seen in the
other 13
films.
If
critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at
films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand
other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more
than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.
Critics were slamming this
film before it ever came out, for no
other reason, really,
than the easy mockability of Tom Cruise.
Nothing would make this more interesting of an Oscar year if something
other than The Artist wins, but after it took the London
Film Critics it's really hard to imagine any
other film winning.
Plenty of
other female
critics, besides me, are flagging the problem, which includes a scarcity of substantial and complex female characters in narrative
films, whether Hollywood or indie, that fail to pass the Bechdel test (at least one scene with two female characters who have names, talking to each
other about anything
other than a man).
We both knew very little about the
film,
other than it had received praise from
critics.
I'd also call him a
film critic and a screenwriter, though his criticism, like much of Godard's and Rivette's, is made up of sounds and images rather
than words and his screenwriting is always built on the writing of
others.
Roger called him the International Man of Mystery and said he probably knew and introduced more directors, actors, distributors, exhibitors and
critics than any
other single person in the
film industry.
If they did, Amy Ryan's chances probably wouldn't be so overdetermined, because if there's anything more eternal
than Oscar's penchant for snubbing a
critic's darling, it is its tendency to give the cold shoulder to loathsome, almost irredeemable female roles (like Something Ronan's sniveling brat from Atonement, who is redeemed by
film's end, but by two
other actresses!).
It was bypassed by the main groups in New York and L.A., but it won in Boston and among the New York online
critics — and so far in the best picture, best director, best actor and best supporting actress categories, it has won more awards
than any
other film.
After all,
other than Boyhood, the
critics have mostly embraced either foreign
films like Ida or movies way too obscure for Oscar voters, like Under the Skin.
But the Christopher Nolan
film worked for audiences and
critics, and now is firmly in the awards - season firmament (in fact, Nolan so far has received more Best Director prizes from
critics groups
than any
other filmmaker this... Read
Critics and moviegoers were cooler towards The Heartbreak Kid
than other Farrelly Brothers
films, but I can't see more
than marginal differences in its artistic success versus their earlier works.
La La Land: Damien Chazelle's love letter to Hollywood came into TIFF with more heat
than any
other film: It infatuated audiences at the Venice
Film Festival, where Emma Stone won a best actress award, and continued to wrap North American
critics around its lithe little finger in Toronto.
It now has some competition, though, in La La Land, another critical and festival darling that scored 12
Critics» Choice nominations, more
than any
other film, including key categories like best picture, best director, best actor, and best actress.
The White Review No. 14 features interviews with the art
critic, historian and October journal editor Hal Foster; British artist Mark Leckey, whose hugely influential
film «Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore» was memorably described by Ed Atkins as «better
than art»; and the novelist Rachel Cusk, who talks about her commitment to «writing sentences that aren't the product of sentences written by
other people.»
In 1962 the
film critic Manny Farber published the provocative essay «White Elephant Art and Termite Art,» in which he distinguished two types of artists: the White Elephant artist, who tries to create masterpieces equal to the greatest artworks of the past, and the Termite, who engages in «a kind of squandering - beaverish endeavor» that «goes always forward, eating its own boundaries and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path
other than signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.»