Sentences with phrase «truly excellent films»

There are some truly excellent films making their world premieres at the festival, a number of which we profiled in our preview series (part 1 part 2 part 3).

It fits in nicely with his recent output, all of which have been good to very good, although I wager he hasn't done a truly excellent film since MUNICH.

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Equipped with a truly excellent villain (Marcel Iures), a charismatic cast and a talented visual director, this is one of those films that you can genuinely enjoy as long as you don't analyze or think too hard into what is going on.

The film is anchored by two excellent central performances; normally known for stand - up comedy, Dave Johns as the titular character delivers solid work in his film debut but it's Hayley Squires as the single mother of two who finds herself in some devastating circumstances that truly captures your heart.

With or without filmmaking tricks, the momentum of the first half of the film leading up to the beginning of the Games is truly excellent.

This is the BEST James Bond film ever made as it is full of style, amazing action pieces that really dazzle and entertain, Pierce Brosnan is an excellent Bond (wit, humor, action, style, brutality), Xenia Onatopp is the greatest creation of a villain and Bond girl (because her weapon is Bond» worst nightmare), the villain is truly threatening and played very well by Sean Bean, the title song is awesome and classic Bond, the script for this film is VERY well written and witty, etc..

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation proves that theory by being absolutely fucking excellent; it is the best film in this series, and it is a perfectly realized piece of cinematic craftsmanship, one that would make any of the truly skilled great filmmakers proud.

The film is hardly immune to the sweaty, rumpled allure of the newsroom, best personified by a lively Hanks and a truly excellent Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian, the reporter whose sharp instincts yield most of The Post's genuinely riveting sequences, one of which consists entirely of Bagdikian standing at a bank of pay phones.

A truly compelling and interesting film with excellent pacing and a really smart twist at the end.

This is an excellent horror film that manages to deliver some truly terrifying scares while keeping that tension high and never letting up.

The twist - filled storyline, which digs up nasty secrets all over the show and offers a satisfying range of suspicious suspects and a truly disgusting killer, remains gripping, and the excellent, understated lead performances don't harp on the racial angle in that embarassing fashion which makes so many Socialy Significant films instantly dated.

Very rarely do I leave a horror film saying the cinematography was excellent, but it truly was.

What truly derails the film is its court - room / civil rights slant which revolves around Ted trying to become a «real boy» so he and his new wife Tami - Lyn (the excellent Jessica Barth) can become parents in a bid to save their marriage.

Toni Collette was also fantastic in her small scene in The Hours, John C. Reilly was in four films and excellent all around, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moor both doubled up as well, I also enjoyed Tom Hanks in Catch Me If You Can (not his best, but still very good) and Robin Williams also had Insomnia, a truly surprising performance (I really liked Al Pacino in that one too).

Also, Ledger was excellent as The Joker and truly deserved the acclaim - and awards - he got for the film.»

Other important and positive trends at this year's FEFF and that I will consider further in this report included a very welcome sprinkling of surprisingly arty films, some of them from Southeast Asia truly excellent.

Between Funny People and the truly excellent Punch Drunk Love, Sandler has proven he has chops but these crappy little films he makes are geared by the studios to steal money from who they consider to be their large and unsophisticated audience.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

Fuqua previously helmed the interminable Tears of the Sun and the truly excellent Training Day, and the influence of both films are felt here.

It's worth seeing the film to watch Chan deliver a powerful and unique performance, truly doing an excellent job channeling that darkness he has so often eschewed in other movies, but «The Foreigner» never realizes that this role is its greatest strength and emotional core, and in doing so, ends up becoming a muddled affair that isn't as engaging as it should be.

The story is full of twists and turns and excellent set pieces, an endless rollercoaster which captures the adventure magic of the Indiana Jones films, and leaves you truly satisfied.