Sentences with phrase «wry satire»
Berlin Review: Fruit Chan's Post-Apocalyptic «The Midnight After» Is a Wry Satire That Demands Your Attention
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The feature film debut from director Jim Mallon (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie), BLOOD HOOK is a distinctly comedic slasher that mixes copious bloodshed with wry satire.
The original Dawn of the Dead was a high watermark that combined unrelenting visceral shocks with a wry satire of consumer culture.
The film doesn't confine itself to wry satire — it's an effective action adventure and an emotional journey for its protagonist Jim.
Not exact matches
While Gielgud is happy playing to type, Anderson retains a wry awkwardness, perhaps imagining the fate of future dons in his brilliant satire If....
Rochelle and Lee look back at some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One (00:46), Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope (05:49), Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square (08:08), Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin (11:51), and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene (14:32).
Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Amnesiac Adjusts to Soulless Utopia in Wry Social Satire Suppose you were suffering from amnesia and suddenly found yourself inexplicably welcomed to an unfamiliar city you don't recognize by soulless strangers who inform you that you're an accountant before escorting you to your new home.
Rochelle and Lee look back at some of this month's new releases, as they debate Steven Spielberg's pop culture paean Ready Player One, Aki Kaurismäki's wry Finnish comedy - drama The Other Side of Hope, Ruben Östlund's wry Swedish comedy - drama The Square, Armando Iannucci's wry Russian comedy - satire The Death of Stalin, and Garth Davis's non-wry Biblical drama Mary Magdalene.
All of which means that underneath the plainness of True Grit are currents of satire and the wryest sense of extratextual irony — its major departures from the source material (speaking of the novel, not of the novel John Wayne film) are almost exclusively in the reductions of its male icons in favour of the plucky little girl.
This Swedish film is so bizarre that it almost defies description: is it a deadpan comedy, a satire of Swedish history or a wry exploration of how people cope with imperfection and mortality?
The French playwright Yasmina Reza has made a career out of penning wry social satires («Art,» «Life x 3») that savagely skewer the hypocrisies, absurdities, and pretenses of bourgeois values.
It's funny, wry, incredulous, appalled and thoroughly enthralled by this real - life giant of Italian politics, not so much a savage satire as one disenchanted with the institutional corruption of politics.
The scene comes off as satire, a wry comment on high culture's role in rebranding the emirates as teetotaling Xanadus.