Sentences with phrase «with superior films»

How much enjoyment you'll get from «The Eagle» probably has a lot to do with how you feel about the sight of Channing Tatum in Roman soldier garb, but director Kevin Macdonald earned our trust with superior films like «The King of Scotland» and «State of Play,» so we're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt — even if it means sitting through a PG - 13 period epic involving swords, spears, Scottish mud, and a lost emblem.

Instead of steering away from last year's blockbuster hit, IM3 follows it up with a superior film that focuses on some of the aftereffects of its storyline.

Not exact matches

And many, many sequels aren't executed with the thought or care of their far - superior original films, especially in series that have stretched over many years — as one sees in the chasm of quality between «The Terminator» (1984) and «Terminator Genisys» (2015).

In the early 1968's, the National Council of Churches radically revised its approach to the film industry, moving from a self - serving pietism to a support for artistically superior films that deal honestly with the human condition.

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The Atlas bagmaker features an innovative double rotary jaw motion and superior control technology to offer speeds of up to 250 bpm (up to 150 bpm when handling potato chips) with accurate film registration and tight bag seals while minimising raw material waste, film loss and downtime for film changes.

The EVO is a lightweight model that pairs with your smartphone, camera, or GoPro to help you beat shakiness and make superior films.

Oh, it certainly provided superior visuals, as I found myself impressed with all the details I'd not previously noticed in the film.

Having already directed the first two (and superior) X-Men films, Singer shows a level of comfort with both the material and the cast, and he contributes at least one brilliant comic set piece in which new mutant Quicksilver (Evan Peters) lays waste to a kitchen full of security guards in languorous, Matrix - style bullet time (it looks gorgeous and has the slapstick choreography of a Three Stooges routine).

Very 70's TV movie but with a superior cast, Nimoy is okay but watch it for the chance to see three great actresses, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, and Vera Miles together in one film.

A committed central performance from Jasmine Hyde can't quite save this half - baked thriller that matches jarring tonal leaps and narrative ineptitude with unfortunate echoes of superior films.

While Anon doesn't boast a superior story, it's engaging in the way many B - grade noir films from the «40s and «50s were — pulpy excursions into the dark side of human nature with hard - bitten heroes and duplicitous femmes fatale.

I've been more impressed with other dragon films to be truthful, I think the dragons in «Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire» and «Reign of Fire» were far superior to this frankly, and the dragon in «Dragonslayer» still impresses.

Cioca's superiors told her that she would be court - martialed for lying if she went forward with her case; almost all of the film's seven subjects recall similar threats of retaliation.

If I didn't know better, I would have thought for sure that this was an undiscovered early film of Steven Spielberg's (albeit one with far superior special effects).

Along with the strange mix of superior talent for this mid-level film is none other than Ennio Morricone, with an assured and competent score.

Aside from the well - noted fact that more superior long - form drama (and comedy) can be found on television than in cinemas, the two most interesting motion picture experiences I had in 2012 were in galleries: The Clock (Christian Marclay, 2010), a staggering and hypnotic achievement of which I still have some of its 24 hours to catch up with, and two multi-screen installations by Candice Breitz: «Him» and «Her» in which many scenes from the films of Jack Nicholson (in Him) and Meryl Streep (in Her), isolate the actors from their filmic background leaving the actors to speak to and interrogate each other across space and time on many themes of character, identity, success, failure, anger and disappointment.

The lineup for this year's Cannes Film Festival (or as they call it in France, Festival de Cannes) has been announced and it is robust with Oscar bait, highly - anticipated premieres, star - studded features, and a lot of foreign and obscure films that if watched, will make you feel cinematically superior to everyone else.

At their best, the movies have been enjoyable ways to pass time, and at their worst, they've been riddled with plot points that hark back to superior films.

So no great surprise here that The Lincoln Lawyer turns out to be superior piece of crime storytelling with some characters clearly designed for recurring roles (in other novels and perhaps other films should this one do well) while others are designated for showy guest appearances as larger - than - life evildoers or tough - guy eccentrics.

The absence of the slaves in this film reveals the consequences of racial and cultural arrogance in the South, and how they don't know who they are or what to do with themselves if they can't feel superior to someone.

Tarantino exploded on the film stage in 1992 with the brilliant Reservoir Dogs, before following that up with the superior Pulp Fiction, for which he won his first Academy Award.

The film appears as interested in developing the strange relationship between Korben and the two young women as it is in exploring the possibility that Kate can really speak with spirits (for a far superior TIFF film that explores this idea, see Olivier Assayas» «Personal Shopper» starring Kristen Stewart).

I agree it's unfairly criticised, and although I wouldn't quite put it up there with Mulholland Drive or Blue Velvet it's certainly one of Lynch's better films and far superior to most of the pap that gets released each year.

The AMPAS allowed for an embracing of the New American cinema with their awards for Best Picture and Best Director for «Midnight Cowboy» in 1969, and only they had the courage (and the smarts) to recognize that «The Godfather Part II» was a superior film to the first in handing it the same two trophies.

And those who think they have already seen this story told with the celebrated Danish film «A Hijacking» have not witnessed this far superior, super-charged version.

This story about a South African boy returning his pet cheetah to the wild is a superior adventure film with a poetic heart, a family picture that's neither simplistic nor condescending.

If this sounds like it could have been the comedy version of TRAINING DAY, then it could have been, but the lazy writing would rather acknowledge that outright with constant references to the superior film, including word for word recreations of dialogue.

Arrival, with its handwringing worthiness and easy answers, certainly meets these criteria as escapist balm for the masses, but this analysis ignores the fact that M Night Shyamalan's 2002 film Signs is not just a superior film about alien invasion (funnier, darker, more cinematic), but also a stronger allegory for the apocalyptic fever that has gripped America and, by extension, the world.

Yet as a film, «Sarah's Key» is not a masterpiece like «Schindler's List» or the superior «Incendies», which also struggles with survivor's guilt.

Having a good, pure image on the monitor made a huge impact on him; it was far superior to what you'd get with a video tap on a film camera, and it let him evaluate all the visual nuances to make sure they came through.»

With the «have - nots» represented through Tyler, Nora Clark (Jenna Dewan, of 2006's superior dance film, Take the Lead) assumes a role as the most prominent of the «haves.»

My disagreements with you over W&L vs. FR have a lot less to do about which is a superior film, bu tmore to do with how off I feel you are about both, what they are and what they intend to accomplish.

I won't bore you with details as to why the original film is far superior other than to say that the entire premise works better in the Japanese culture where social graces are far more repressed, especially when it comes to sexy dancing.

The film was shot entirely on the highest definition IMAX and 65 mm film and this fantastic new format, with its increased resolution and superior colour reproduction is able to maximize Dunkirk's impact in the home.»

The former arrives with far less baggage, and as such it is the superior film.

The accompanying 42 - minute Within the Ring is a superior behind - the - scenes documentary directed with a rough - around - the - edge sensibility that matches both the film and the culture of its characters.

GONE GIRL still lags behind the best of Fincher's recent films though, lacking the relentless atmosphere of ZODIAC, simmering darkness of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, or superior character work of THE SOCIAL NETWORK — all things that occasionally feel lacking in this particular story.

What he delivers with Mad Max: Fury Road is a film so far superior to its three predecessors as to be almost magical.

This is a paint - by - numbers production, filled with beats resembling ones from superior animated films, among them Disney's The Lion King, Brother Bear, and The Fox and the Hound (which producer Richard Rich directed).

As it stands, the 1080p 1.85 X 1 digital High Definition image looks fine throughout, shot with remarkable form by Anderson as an uncredited Director of Photography, his use of the grain in the advanced Kodak Vision 3 35 mm camera negative film stocks is superior and impresses throughout as it usually does in all of his films.

The film's makers, including director R.J. Cutler and screenwriter Shauna Cross (working from Gayle Forman's novel), are clearly playing to a target audience — the same folks who lined up earlier this summer for the vastly superior The Fault in Our Stars — though they do so with dismayingly little effort to freshen up the formula.

Nicolas Cage, a superior actor who has lately performed in a lot of interesting films but precious few really good ones, plays Tom Welles, a private investigator who's called to the lush home of a recently widowed dowager with a disturbing secret.

Their choosing doesn't imply any inspiration — and in a film filled with flashbacks starring Anjelica Huston... it's hard not to remember Wes Anderson and his superior choice of music.

Casting liberal lion Redford against type as a hawk with his finger on the button works out nicely, and implicitly nods to one of this film's inspirations, the superior Three Days of the Condor.

However, the focus of the film lies on his same - named nephew (Samuel L. Jackson), who, as the film begins, is a cop whose take - no - crap demeanor constantly leaves him at odds with his superiors.

With Godzilla, Edwards has produced an entertaining, engaging, superior blockbuster and a worthy addition to the King of the Monster's canon of films.

It suffers a bit from poor timing since it comes on the heels of The Post, a thematically similar film with more urgency, superior source material, better character development, and greater contemporary resonance.

It seems a long time since the Spierig brothers burst onto the scene with their zombie schlock-fest Undead, but their return indicates they've spent the time wisely — Daybreakers is a vastly superior film.