Sentences with phrase «despite fine performances»

Nobody in this movie, despite the fine performances of Williams and especially Rogen, appears to live on Earth, but on some mystical faraway planet where people actually care about Margot's indecisive skittishness.

Despite fine performances from a well - chosen cast, the characters aren't furnished with much psychological depth, and their motives remain patently simple.

The result is highly stylized but fractured — a film with a modern look populated by unbelievable, anachronistic characters, despite fine performances by Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening.

Despite some fine performances from an appealing cast, «Insurgent» won't help this series escape the shadow of «The Hunger Games.»

Critics Consensus: Despite some fine performances, The Kite Runner is just shy of rendering the magic of the novel on to the big screen.

Critic Consensus: Despite some fine performances, The Kite Runner is just shy of rendering the magic of the novel on to the big screen.

Despite the fine performances, Brick Lane comes across as a nice soap opera when it promised much more.

Despite the fine performances of Ikeme, new coach of the Super Eagles Gernot Rohr confirmed he is still in talks with Vincent Enyeama over a return to the senior national team of Nigeria.

Not exact matches

Despite this, however, it is finalists Germany who have the most nominees for the prize, with no less than four of Joachim Low's squad potentially able to secure the award with a fine performance in Sunday's final.

Only recently, De Gea put in one of the performances of his career as he helped United to a 3 - 1 win away to Arsenal as he repeatedly kept the Gunners out despite them creating plenty of fine scoring opportunities.

Despite being forced to play in a new system seemingly every week, with an ever changing cast of team - mates, the winger's fine performances even under these conditions are evidence of his star quality.

Cech is a too keeper, no way should Kos and Mustafi be so bad as they are, Bellerin might get stuck but he was doing fine until a while ago, Xhaka might get stuck but he was highly regarded and playing well before he joined and Wenger seems very negative on him and has changed his position, Iwobi is a kid and should be used as such, Perez doesn't get a look in despite positive performances and Walcott has been here since 16 so he should have been trained exactly how he needs to be.

Liverpool were beaten in their opening pre-season fixture of the 2014 - 15 season, despite several fine performances from a squad mostly made up of youngsters and academy players.

The Hammers have not been sufficiently impressed by Song's performances in the second half of this season, despite a fine start to life at Upton Park when he arrived on loan from La Liga.

The fine performances of 18 year - old Max Meyer in attacking midfield explain why Julian Draxler remains a left sided player despite expressing a desire to move infield.

It can work the other way, however, such as in the case of these 11 players who all reserve their finest performances for when they're wearing the shirt of their nation, despite underwhelming form in club football.

Koscielny (7.5)-- Despite the unfortunate own goal, another fine performance from the French centre - back.

Despite the rather distracting faux - Russian accents — as also heard in «Child 44» — all the performances are fine, but the story is convoluted to the point of being contorted, and the direction fails to energize the twists of the tale.

Despite some very fine performances, the characters aren't supposed to be particularly deep, serving their function without a sense of real history or future, existing for the here and now as the story necessitates.

Despite the lackluster plotting and direction, Sarandon manages to deliver a fine performance, and the supporting cast do admirably with what little they have to work with.

Despite a fine ensemble of Oscar - friendly actors, there's no chance in Mordor it'll receive an acting nomination, and it's not exactly a secret that actors tend to vote for the film with the strongest performances.

Let me take a moment from discouraging you from seeing this film to tell you that, despite all of the script problems, both Fassbender and Vikander turn in fine performances.

Somehow, despite riveting performances and many emotionally powerful scenes — and especially fine work by Owen, Keener and Liberato — Trust winds up as a good, rather than great, movie that has something to say but doesn't, quite, say it as well as it wanted to.

Despite a fine central performance from Idris Elba, that film tried to cover way too much ground with the result that it came across as a series of snapshots, fine enough in themselves but not enough to give us a true sense of the man which, say, concentrating on a specific time in his life may well have done.

Mark Wahlberg (Four Brothers, I Heart Huckabees) does a fine job in a very physical performance, despite not looking much like Papale.

And despite some earnest attempts to patch together a metaphorical framework for things via some outlandishly surrealist sequences, writer - director Paolo Sorrentino tells more than he shows, and wastes some damn fine performances from his cast.

Despite this attempt to simplify Hardy on the big screen for the madding modern movie crowd, the filmmakers have certainly delivered beautiful images and fine performances.

Despite the alienating material, Strathairn gives the finest performance of the film as he consistently challenges James» mental capacity — and nurses a small crush on James that dates back to his soap days.

Despite initial misgivings when the first photos came out of Moore done up in Palin's hairdo and trademark specs (pictures that for some reason conjured unfortunate reminders of Moore doing a bad Boston accent on «30 Rock»), «Game Change» ranks among her finest performances.

Verdict: Despite its structure and pacing issues, John Lee Hancock and Disney present a warm and tender tale of hope that offers one of the finest performances of 2013.

It is great that these two were nominated (I will forever be on record that, despite my general hatred for The Danish Girl and Eddie Redmayne's performance, Alicia Vikander is excellent in that movie), and it's great that they have a decent chance to win (I'm going to keep clinging onto my belief that Mara is the frontrunner until that dream gets crushed into a fine paste) as well as freeing up space for the likes of Charlotte Rampling in the Best Actress category, but it's equally frustrating that other performances, namely Kristen Stewart's career defining turn in Clouds of Sils Maria, are left on the outside looking in.

It seems to me that despite all their bragging about their fine performance on international tests and NAEP tests, it's not likely that Massachusetts» teachers, or their curriculum, or their assessments are the basis of their outstanding achievements in reading and mathematics.

Despite having a 21st century V6 under the hood, the Equinox won't set any performance records, and if you are a stickler for fine finishes then Chevrolet's attempt to distract your eyes with a few nice touches like the two tone seats and red stitching in the steering wheel, but in the end, the Equinox's design team's choice of materials left a bit more to be desired.

Despite being 41 pounds lighter than the previous - generation unibody, global rigidity of the new 2019 Acura RDX body structure is up 38.3 percent which supports improved fine - tuning of the suspension systems for superior ride and handling performance.

This was a result of the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism not having guidelines to approve performance art, but also Nguyen's video work that shows the artist making soap, which the government deemed is not an artwork despite explanations from the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum and the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Association.

Despite the low 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB internal storage on the device, it feels pretty fine in terms of performance.