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"The Godfather" of television, but aside from it's acclaim and mobster characters, the two are nothing alike.
Like many fox searchlight pictures, this was more of a sleeper hit and didn't get the mass critical acclaim it deserves.
His capability as an actor has been previously established by his critical acclaim garnered in other films (The Leading Man, No Looking Back).
Not received well at the time, The Lady from Shanghai has gotten more and more critical acclaim as years pass.
When Lucille Ball was an acclaimed, but not very widely known B picture actress, Joan Davis was winning a lot more acclaim for her own brand of goofy physical humor on radio and on film.
Well, music isn't what makes a movie, even a short animation like this one, but anyone who knows who Joanna Newsom is (and many should considering the critical acclaim her album "Ys" received last year) will immediately understand the mood and tone of this short, which is about a Japanese in New York trying to learn and adapt to a new environment.
It drew great acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2002.
However, the general acclaim from Canada and at Cannes might lead one to presume that its competition may have been, at best, somewhat weak.
As I recently prepared to watch the film for the first time as an adult, I was a bit concerned that it wouldn't stand up to the high acclaim I had awarded it as a kid...particularly after noting the poor rating it has here on IMDb.
What a perfect show for children, I am surprised it hasn't won more awards or acclaim.
I know Guy Maddin directed this short film, My Dad is 100 Years Old, but either acclaim or blame should be rest on Isabella Rossellini's shoulders for this.
I'm at a loss to explain why Frank Sinatra chose this particular project in the wake of all the acclaim he got for From Here to Eternity.
Hitchcock made a lot of great films, many of which have been met with the acclaim that they rightly deserve.
Lifeboat deserves a lot of acclaim, yet its lesser-known status doesn't allow justice in that respect.
The two young actors look artificial at some points though their general performance is satisfactory enough! nevertheless this movie deserves acclaim on the grounds that it's not a potboiler produced out of commercial concerns!
Has much critical acclaim from highly regarded reviewers such as Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, The Village Voice's Dennis Lim and Time Out's Anthony Kaufman.
"Praise" is one of those films which slip between the cracks of public consciousness for want of broad market appeal and entertainment value while garnering critical and industry acclaim for its ability to faithfully portray difficult human issues.
Just before Woody Allen began his march towards huge critical acclaim with Annie Hall and a definite move towards more serious work he put out this.
Clive Owen and Alan Rickman are good actors for which Rickman gets acclaim and Owen doesn't.
Mystic River garnered a lot of acclaim but I hated the film.
Although, the use of these images is attached to the characters, The Henleys, who use them to gain acclaim in the Art world, it's the psychological terror that two people can inflict into destroying somebodies life that makes this film an attention grabber.
Eternity and a Day (the director really knew what he meant) is an art-house movie made after an infallible recipe to win critical acclaim and eventually those great prizes of the broken hearted that will never make a blockbuster.
Animation style and quality notwithstanding, the "classics" by popular acclaim invariably start out interesting, as you'd expect a pilot episode of any TV series to strive for, but gradually or quickly become weird, occasionally startling, mildly disconcerting, formulaic, or just plain tedious.
I didn't seem to think of this as being the unintentional laugh riot that many others acclaim it to be.
Peter Weir made 'The Cars That Ate Paris' about the same time as 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (which was much more successful at the box office and won a lot more critical acclaim).
Can't say I really condone Frank Hennenlotter's augmenting of the "Basket Case" concept, but the comedic advancement is prevalent in much of the director's film's around the early 90s and are all definitely worthy of acclaim.
Bela Lugosi, so often underrated as a performer (even though he played none other than Jesus Christ on stage to some acclaim), manages, here, to convey a sense of loss that is almost palpable.
A Touch of Sin has been shown to great acclaim all over the world, but not in China.
The Indian media are doing their part to strengthen the illusion of progress, latching onto the phrase “closest partners” in their acclaim for the agreement.
His human qualities, as much as his talent and technical feats on the field, counted equally in establishing his popular acclaim.
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