Sentences with phrase «urbane comedy»

Beckinsale was an especially bright spot in the all - around delightful Love & Friendship, which is exactly the kind of urbane comedy the Globes love to reward, and Collins... well, her movie flopped, but she's an ingenue in a movie with a big - name star (Warren Beatty) drawing attention.

Wilder, best known for his energetic urbane comedies, also went through a dark streak.

Not exact matches

Ostensibly a great ensemble comedy, Drowning Mona bears more than a passing resemblance to the Agatha Christie whodunit Murder on the Orient Express — except that in Mona each of the characters is dull and boorish instead of witty and urbane.

Theoretically the most accessible film to date from the long absent Mr. Urbane of American comedy, I saw the film a couple of days after its disastrous reception as the surprise film at the London Film Festival, where more than one person I love and trust walked out on the screening.

Dryly urbane, Mr. Nichols had a gift for communicating with actors and a keen comic timing, which he honed early in his career as half of the popular sketch - comedy team Nichols and May.

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo cut their teeth on such urbane, snippy TV sitcoms as Arrested Development and Community and the film begins brightly, with some inspired comedy concerning the Cap's growing laundry list of post-WWII must - see cultural artefacts and baffling culinary innovations.