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The trailers look grittier than any previous film in the «Star Wars» universe, and the supporting roles are particularly well - cast, with Donald Glover as a young Lando Calrissian, and Woody Harrelson in a criminal underworld mentor role.

Grander in scope than any previous film in the series, the story spends most of its first 45 minutes globetrotting to catch us with all the key characters, and introducing us to the new ones, including the young Jean, Scott and Kurt, played winningly by Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and Kodi Smit - McPhee, respectively.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 had what would be an excellent weekend for any other film — an estimated weekend take of $ 51.6 million — but with an unreported budget and nearly $ 198.3 million in the can domestically, one wonders if Lionsgate had hoped the movie would do better, especially as it has made much less than the previous films in the series.

Not exact matches

The flexible packaging manufacturer explained that it developed a PE film to be used in a laminate structure which is lighter and thinner than previous designs used for Tesco's own label Ultra Soft baby wipes.

In a statement, Cuomo's campaign signaled it would donate more than $ 111,000 to unnamed women's organizations, reversing its previous decision to give away only $ 50,000, the amount the disgraced film mogul gave to the governor's 2018 campaign.

In the Jan. 8 edition of Nature Communications, engineers from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL) and Stanford University show how they created thin - film organic transistors that could operate more than five times faster than previous examples of this experimental technology.

The flash - forward right at the end of the film, when Harry, Ron and Hermione are middle - aged parents waving off their kids at King's Cross, actually affected me more than anything they did in the previous seven films.

Her previous films, the sprite High Season and the whimsical Rough Magic, were technically sound productions (though, in the case of Rough Magic, narratively poor too) that showed she was more than a notable screenwriter (of the maligned but underrated Michaelangelo Antonioni epic Zabriskie Point) and famous spouse (of Italian auteur Bernardo Bertolucci).

Though Tony Gilroy, who shared writing credit on all three previous Bourne films and directed the excellent Michael Clayton 82 (and much less excellent Duplicity 69), handles both writing and directing duties here, critics found that Legacy added little in the way of originality, while Renner proved a less captivating action star than Damon.

The film take a more blatantly serious turn in the third act than most of Anderson's previous stories have done, hinting at the emotions that are at the surface for the characters but that still feel deeply buried to us.

Considerably tamer than previous Nymphomaniac chapter previews, this tease for «Chapter 7: The Mirror» is described thusly on the film's website, «The image you see in a mirror will at first glance seem like an exact replica of the object you're looking at.

Benedikt Erlingsson's follow - up to Of Horses and Men is «another skillfully crafted, surreally told tale of man and nature — or in this case, woman and autre — but one with more emotional depth and sharper political undertones» than his previous film, according to Jordan Mintzer of THR.

The distributor released more films last year than in its previous (and only) two years of existence combined, with the best being Spain's silent - film take on Snow White, Blancanieves.

But I notice a trend this year: the films in the Competition are more accessible than previous years.

We don't know much about the film, but it does sound a lot bigger in scope than either of Carruth's previous movies.

All in all a great movie to watch with many references to the previous films & comics that fans will love & more than enough weight to stand on its own for new comers to the series.

Watch for the way that outer space (visited more often here than in the previous films combined) dissolves into the glow stars that still cling to Clark's childhood ceiling; the way that baseball is resuscitated America's central pastime; or the way that Singer cuts every cornball moment with a little humour at the expense of our childish hunger for it (like Lois sliding down a plastic slide, or a little boy's asthmatic wheeze off - camera).

The sound design in this film is far more active than in the previous one, with effects ranging from heavy traffic and shouting mobs to crackling fire and crumbling walls.

Likewise, Danny Huston — not my favorite actor by any stretch of the imagination — is a lot stronger here than in some of his previous films (like Birth), playing Justin's co-worker who has his own sleazy interests in Tessa, something she uses to get information from him about the British government's dealings in Africa.

Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock — the 1975 film that set the tonal template for Sofia Coppola's films — is more powerfully present here than in any of her previous work, even The Virgin Suicides.

We see the destruction of Metropolis from his ground - level viewpoint in a genuinely tense and engaging opening sequence (after the contractually obligated retelling of Bats» origins during the credits), that does far more to convey the true horror and damage of that fight than the previous film.

In other words, Boll's latest evokes the form but not the content of such film series as Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Star Wars, which means that few if any fantasy fans will be deceived into believing that Dungeon Siege is a legitimate endeavor rather than the same everything - must - go yard sale of clichés and familiar formulas the director mined for his previous work.

This film delivers much more in the way of fan service than any of the previous films.

Presented in black and white 1080p high definition on Blu - ray with a widescreen aspect ratio of 1.78:1 (original aspect ratio was 1.85:1) and a remastered DTS - HD MA (Master Audio) 2.0 Mono lossless sound mix, the film looks better than previous releases but isn't as sharp as expected.

«Justice League,» starring Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot and Henry Cavill, has finally reached the big screen, yet it opened lower than the previous four films in the DCEU.

In a New Yorker piece on the director, Baumbach briefly mentions his follow - up to «Frances Ha»: another New York - set film co-written with Gerwig, and one reportedly much «looser and wonkier» than their previous effort.

Colors are rich and nuanced, with a great deal more pop and warmth than in the previous films (save for Wonder Woman, reviewed here in 4K).

However, if you want sizzle and action that's even more violent than what we've seen in previous films, you've come to the right place, as «Smaug» is more aggressive with its fight sequences and battles.

It's a melodrama, undoubtedly, not as florid or overwrought as the term «women's picture» might conjure up, but nonetheless more interested in a woman's emotional journey than any of Gray's previous films have been.

There's much more landscape, most of it parched and wintry under lowering skies, than in any previous film (pictured below: Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in the great British outdoors).

McDonagh clearly thought it needed music, and actually left more open space for the score than in his previous films.

With a flurry of bonkers action and cross-species bonding, The Twilight Saga surges to a howling conclusion that has more attitude in it than all four previous films put together.

Frances Ha on Adderall, Mistress America finds Baumbach working with a manic screwball energy that has more in common with Preston Sturges or Howard Hawks than it does any of his previous films.

Its top film of the year is «Transformers: The Last Knight», which only managed to bring - in $ 130M in the U.S., significantly less than the previous installments.

The Life Aquatic, in other words, contains a great deal more activity and adventure than Anderson's previous films.

Joe Swanberg, who served on some of Perry's previous projects including Queen of Earth, planted an idea in Perry's mind about making a film in his Brooklyn neighborhood that had a smaller budget than his 2014 film, Listen Up Philip, but «feels big.»

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.

The editing for this particular film felt more episodic in nature than anything previous.

In Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the women get to do a lot more than they did in the previous filIn Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, the women get to do a lot more than they did in the previous filin the previous film.

What also separates Homecoming from the pack is how it understands the character of Peter Parker in a different yet completely faithful way than the previous films.

Key features: Making its Blu - ray debut, the film looks better than in any previous home - video incarnation.

In fact, it feels somewhat more traditional than Boyle's previous films, but not in a bad waIn fact, it feels somewhat more traditional than Boyle's previous films, but not in a bad wain a bad way.

The first trailer for Woody Allen's new film Magic in the Moonlight has appeared, and it seems to be a far more light - hearted film than his previous one, Blue Jasmine.

Johnson was much more successful in this regard with his previous film The Skeleton Twins, perhaps a more specifically aimed screenplay than Clowes work here.

The Return of the King is closer to empty spectacle than any of the previous films — a fitting conclusion, perhaps, to a ten - hour film but a movie in and of itself that has trouble finding the weight and impetus to stand alone.

It's a broader, starrier project than either of Nichols's previous films, and he handles the transition to the major league with relative confidence, conjuring serene widescreen imagery with his regular cinematographer Adam Stone, and coaxing fine work from both the names and newcomers in the cast.

Going into Wang Bing's latest documentary, Mrs. Fang, I was too busy cracking jokes about how much shorter it is than his previous works (his breakthrough film, Tie xi qu: West of the Tracks, clocks in at nine hours; his recent masterpiece»Til Madness Do Us Part comes in at close to four) and had somehow failed to realize I'd be watching almost an hour and a half of a woman lying on her deathbed.

The enduring and healing power of love, the strength of the human will, living for the moment — these are a few of the themes Cameron covers, but instead of coming off as blatantly preachy (which, in some of his previous films, he comes dangerously close to), he addresses these issues with careful subtlety, expressing them mostly through the characters and their actions rather than explicitly written dialogue (with the exception of a few words of wisdom dispensed by Jack).

In the case of Days of Heaven, the difficulty is even more pronounced than the director's previous film.

The previous films in the DC Comics Extended Universe series (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad) have left both critics and comic - book fans increasingly disappointed in the franchise's output; as a result, Wonder Woman, which is receiving its release ahead of the first Justice League movie (set to premiere this November), has been saddled with the burden of recovering DC's tainted reputation in the eyes of viewers, while also representing the first major female - fronted superhero flick in more than a decade.