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That's the question facing the eight monks at the center of Xavier Beauvois's slow moving yet powerful film «Of Gods and Men.»

Not exact matches

Although Romero misses greatness, Julia's restrained yet powerful performance makes the film well worth viewing.

In 1987, he starred as anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom alongside Kevin Kline, and though the film itself alienated some critics (Pauline Kael called it «dumbfounding»), Washington's powerful performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.Two years later, Washington netted another Best Supporting Actor nod — and won the award — for his turn as an embittered yet courageous runaway slave in the Civil War drama Glory.

Although documentarian Kirby Dick is known for visually imaginative films («This Film Is Not Yet Rated,» «Outrage»), he wisely chooses to depend on the powerful stories told here.

There is a car crash scene which was extremely powerful in the film, yet I personally felt it was predictable.

And yet, given that the film's most powerful relationship - namely, that between Tim and his father (Bill Nighy)- is inextricably connected to the shared secret of their ability, one struggles to see a way in which Curtis could have avoided this particular problem.

Half the film is spent chasing down the packets stashed in the other mules, yet despite rampant opportunities no one other than Lucy ever actually takes any of this all - powerful super-drug.

Yet, their collective theatrical chops did not earn the powerful film recognition.

Like in Jacob Tremblay's powerful debut performance in Lenny Abrahamson's Room (2015), Auggie's first - person narration emerges as the centrality of the film, and Chbosky recognises how Tremblay's soft - toned, yet childish higher - pitched intonation tugs the heartstrings.

As for the film, while the exact plot is not quite known just yet, as it is based on the video game of a similar name, it could be something like a «peculiar talking Pikachu who, despite not being as powerful and nimble as other Pikachu of his kind, is rather intelligent and claims to be a great detective,» who one encounters a boy named Tim Goodman, who is able to understand what Pikachu is saying.

Yet the film isn't needlessly morose, it's penetrating and powerful, shining a very bright light at the complexity of the situation involving the cartels and America's addictions, twisting the very notion of a war film as elegantly as masterpieces like Apocalypse Now have done in the past.

What I can promise is a powerful, towering, yet intimately - told epic with excellent performances, a unique structure, and a story that's told with as much passion and angst as the myriad of sons in the film, all of whom become the fathers of their own legacy, whether they want to or not.

Here, she chooses to expose herself in a way that is somehow powerful and yet flippant, but sitll leads to the ultimate doom of those who might objectify her in the context of the film, but viewing the picture as a whole, it still seems flimsier than I believe she intended.

Like O'Hehir, I've come to this conclusion after two weeks of preparation for the 50th New York Film Festival — a time in which I've seen a great many films, from Antonio Mendez Esparza's quietly powerful Here and There to Cristian Mungiu's riveting yet low - key Beyond the Hills to Christian Petzold's modest character drama Barbara.

That trajectory seemed perfect for The Circle, a film with his biggest cast yet (Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, John Boyega, etc) based on a well - received novel with plenty of relevance to our current societal fears surrounding uber - powerful tech companies with charismatic CEOs, but the final product is a complete disaster.

Three powerful, emotionally charged films linked by a recurring motif: the random suddenness with which calamity can enter lives, alter them forever, and yet not necessarily destroy them.

The film mirrors contemporary society in the most powerful, poignant way, and yet doesn't ever lose its edge in telling the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's endeavor to organize a protest march in Alabama in 1965.

British director Kim Longinotto has made her name with a number of intensely powerful, quietly observed films often focusing on the plight of women, like «Divorce Iranian Style» or «Rough Aunties,» but «Dreamcatcher» might be one of her most moving pictures yet.

Perhaps her most powerful film yet is Whose Utopia?

Filmed in black and white against a seamless studio backdrop in the style of French musical television productions from the mid-1960's, «Hors - Champs» is on the one hand nostalgic in the way it pays homage to a powerful but yet obscure art form, while on the other it is vibrant as it stretches the limits of what we expect to see in an art gallery.

The song was later re-recorded on a rival label, Coxsone, in 1971, and the song's title was changed and the chorus sang, «I was born a winner,» a subtle yet powerful audible transformation that is reflected in the film as Gaillard turns his attention to Jesse Owens» Olympic oak.