Sentences with phrase «wrenching movie»

He broke it off three months before our wedding, just disappearing into the night like some gut - wrenching movie that plays in slow motion with an eighties backing track.

An emotionally wrenching movie week, but both films are very well done with tough subject matter.

This is a heart - wrenching movie whose ferocity is restrained, making it even more tragic and powerful.

It's «The Broken Circle Breakdown,» which is just a heart - wrenching movie.

In the Fade yielded a best actress award for Diane Kruger at the Cannes Film Festival, and watching this wrenching movie, it's easy to see why.

Nothing can wrench this movie from the grip of a saccharine, formulaic script full of plattitudes and divided allegiances.

Not exact matches

Culturally we're wired to accept these fearful misconceptions about labor — TV shows and movies often portray childbirth as a horror show with women screaming in gut - wrenching pain.

A private school - educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, Jack Lemmon burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death in 2001.

The Glass Castle offers up a movie clan to beat in terms of complete dysfunction, though the brutal and heart - wrenching film is in its own way just as much of a mess.

I spent much of the movie thinking about her Oscar - nominated turn as an intrepid Boston Globe reporter in «Spotlight» and her wrenching performance as an Orthodox Jewish woman in the upcoming drama «Disobedience,» and wondering why the studios can't give this brilliant actress something comparably rewarding to do.

Also earning the highest Metascore of the festival, the film is a «tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie,» according to Owen Gleiberman of Variety, with a «remarkable performance» by Mary Kay Place in the title role as a widow who spends her days caring for others, including her drug - addicted son.

This gives way to some of the movie's most wrenching scenes, such as in a scene finding a mother hugging her child through prison - like bars (ringed in cheesy fake flowers, in at attempt to soften the harshness).

Of all the wrenching things I heard at the press conference at HBO headquarters following a screening of Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's powerful documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, last but not least was Damian Echols's admission that when he emerged from nearly two decades on death row for a crime he didn't commit, the first movie he saw was... wait for it... the remake of Fright Night.

This may not be the cheeriest movie of the season, but it's so skilfully written, directed and acted that it's impossible not to be pulled into its powerfully wrenching drama.

Her gut - wrenching, naturalistic performance of Thomasin has her poised as one of the top rising young stars in the game, with lead roles in buzzed about projects from M. Night Shyamalan, and alongside Kate Mara in upcoming sci - fi movie Morgan (directed by Ridley Scott's son, Luke).

The inclusion of several thoroughly wrenching sequences within the film's latter half - ie Becca and Howie engage in a screaming match - proves instrumental in cementing Rabbit Hole's place as an unexpectedly powerful piece of work, with the movie ultimately representing an almost astonishing improvement over Mitchell's previous effort (2006's amateurish and ill - conceived Shortbus).

The shift from watchable to electrifying comes with a mesmerizing stretch involving Harrelson's tragic figure, as the movie, past that point, is riddled with similarly spellbinding interludes that ultimately confirm its place as a seriously impressive and wrenching piece of work.

But the movie is missing the gut - wrenching tension of real entrapment.

Though the movie touches on heart - wrenching topics like childhood abuse and heartbreak, the sarcastic humor and witty banter are just as memorable.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Filled with hits like «Iris» by the Goo Goo Dolls, «Uninvited» by Alannis Morrisette and the gut wrenching «Angel» by Sarah McLachlan, makes the movie almost worth watching... or you could just grab the soundtrack.

She's known for all this comedy on Community, and yet I didn't know her from Community first, I knew her from a movie called Gardens of the Night, which is one of the most wrenching dramas, and she's excellent.

Time Out says: «What stiffens this unashamedly exhibitionist movie's muscles are its beautifully judged performances, from Burt Reynolds» stand - out as porn - king auteur / father figure, to Julianne Moore's superb cokehead survivor - star and William H. Macy's humiliated cuckold, right down to Philip Seymour Hoffman's gut - wrenching gay crew member.»

Lastly, you'd think a movie starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms and Judy Greer would be able to rival Project X in raucous laughs, but Jeff Who Lives at Home certainly looks like it's veering more towards the dramatic and heart wrenching side.

As with the movie, which served as its inspiration, the TV series is flavored with darkly comic moments, offbeat characters and gut - wrenching moments of explosive violence.

There is ultimately something a bit soft and nebulous about Arrival: for all the forehead - furrowing concepts it entertains, it can't actually, as a big - budget Hollywood movie, sell us big ideas without packing them in the cotton floss of meaningful intimate experience, which was also the case with Interstellar and even Gravity (one movie where the protagonist could easily have done without a heart - wrenching back story).

Bookended by beloved movie stars delivering awards - worthy performances, the festival opens with Alejandro G. Iñárritu's vividly imagined Birdman on Thursday, October 16th and closes with Jean - Marc Vallée's heart - wrenching Wild.

That's a shame, because the final forty - five minutes of the movie should have been poignantly heart - wrenching, but with every character an archetype (or, often, a stereotype), it's hard to truly relate to them as real people, and consequently, the emotional impact never allows the narrative to soar to the heights that a live performance with living, breathing people in front of you might offer.

I really enjoyed his performance and has one of the movie's most gut wrenching scenes made made me tear up.

The fear I had going into Stronger, the film about Bauman's recovery starring Jake Gyllenhaal, was that it would cram this genuinely wrenching material into the Hollywood «based on a true story» formula, resulting in a three - act movie of tragedy, love, and stirring achievement that exists primarily as a showcase for an Oscar campaign.

It's an apt illustration of the movie's analytic power: Throughout writer - director Farhadi's wrenching, relentlessly intelligent drama, characters shield their feelings with unspoken motives and actions.

Manchester by the Sea: This wrenching drama runs well over two hours and yet remains riveting throughout, with the movie's engrossing atmosphere perpetuated by a career - best performance by Casey Affleck.

(Russell has charmed me every time I've seen him, and here he gets to deliver a wrenching monologue that pretty much makes the whole movie — keep an eye on this one.)

For a short but irritating stretch, the whole movie gets wrenched into a place of falsehood.

Usually I'm listing the best, but since most people will agree that we are yet to get one good movie based a video game, much less to be able to name five would not only be difficult but a heart wrenching lie.

This is yet another movie with a strong ensemble: Terry Notary, Karin Konoval, and Michael Adamthwaite push the boundaries of performance capture, and Amiah Miller and Steve Zahn inject the bleak, often gut - wrenching proceedings with a spark of hope and humor.

With his latest movie, Lanthimos has made a tense, heart - wrenching tale with an admirably askance view of humanity that's a worthy successor to his prior works.

While the initial film offered moviegoers one of the most original twists in movie history, the subsequent sequels have done little to mix - up the formula, instead relying on an increasingly violent set of gut - wrenching set - pieces that escalate the brutality and shock with each new installment.

His coming - of - age drama «The Scouting Book For Boys» is something of a Playlist favorite; wrenching and dark and beautifully made, it sadly never got a U.S. release, despite being one of the better recent British films, but it's led to a lot more movie work.

Other recipients include Jean - Paul Rappeneau for his project Belles familles; Louis Garrel, whose Les Deux amis will team the writer - director with Vincent Macaigne; and Christophe Honoré... Michael Caine will star in Paolo Sorrentino's In the Future, a drama about «friendship between two old people»... Abdellatif Kechiche is contemplating another helping of wrenching romantic anguish with a movie version of Héloïse et Abélard... Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are currently shooting an adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's novel Ten Thousand Saints, with Ethan Hawke and Hailee Steinfeld, about a young man (played by Hugo star Asa Butterfield) who moves in with his estranged father in Manhattan in 1987 at the height of the East Village punk scene...

«Boyhood»: Richard Linklater's masterwork, and a piece of cinema as superb as it is unique, with one boy's step - by - step trek through the years brought to meaningful, beautiful life in a film made up almost entirely of the kinds of real, wrenching and funny scenes other, lesser movies either cut or never include in the first place.

Few «teen» movies were so haunting, or emotionally impactful during the era, and Thomas Newman's gorgeously wrenching, soothingly anguished score for «Less Than Zero» is a thing of haunted beauty.