Sentences with phrase «wicked satire»

A wicked satire of our selfie and Instagram - obsessed culture, «Ingrid» features a knockout performance by indie comedy goddess Plaza as a woman who uses a $ 60,000 inheritance to move to LA and stalk an online celebrity (Olsen) with an equally vacuous existence.

And it is a wicked satire of American smarminess («Welcome to Nashville and to my lovely home,» a country star gushes to Elliott Gould).

I was equally struck, however, by Carmy's wicked satire of biblical scholars.

Not exact matches

Love satire (Daily Show and Colbert) and have a wicked sense of...

The second leads to cold satire, and we're the wicked guys getting a lecture on our immoral tendencies and primitive ways.

Then I realized that we've all been enjoyed wicked political satire for years on a regular basis.

Niccol is no stranger to hot - button issues, but he outdoes his previous efforts by injecting this satire of war profiteering in the Halliburton age with a wicked arsenic wit.

The Big Lebowski is a wicked sharp genre satire disguised as a stoner comedy.

The picture is wicked in its satire but not without purpose.

This incarnation of Fanny may not have been what Austen had in mind, but she surely would have approved, for the injection of attitude and smarts makes Mansfield Park a much more wicked and irresistible social satire, with Fanny frequently needling the pomposity of her rich relations.

In the crass sporting satire, The Bronze, the audience is supposed to unleash their wicked funny bones at the door for a former foul - mouthed Olympic blonde - haired...

It's the most quotable film of the 2000s — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

It's the most quotable film of the decade — by miles — and the cynical potty mouths on screen are so articulate and creative that, after the avalanche of witticisms, you're left with the lingering sense that you've seen not just a funny movie but also a wicked political satire of the highest order, the kind where the absurdity speaks for itself.

David Cronenberg forges both a wicked social satire and a very human ghost story from today's celebrity - obsessed culture.

Although it was initially received as an art - world satire, the new movie has more sprawling aims: Imagine, if such a thing is possible, one of Michael Haneke's exacting morality plays with a wicked sense of humor, or Roy Andersson's ultra-deadpan tableaux minus the Scandinavian gloom.

From grindhouse classics to showbiz satires, seek out these inspirations for Nicolas Winding Refn's wicked latest.