Sentences with phrase «absolute lead of the film»

Rooney Mara gave my favorite female performance of the year, and she probably has the most raw screen time of any of the actresses in this category (being the absolute lead of the film will do that for you).

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IndieWire gave the film an A - review and called McDormand an «absolute force of nature» in the lead role.

This is the kind of film that was all the rage in the early «60s: aging male star, once a romantic lead, is cast as head of a really annoying family that puts him through absolute hell, until the denouement that insists that family life is in fact splendid and really the ONLY THING WORTH EXISTING FOR.

The fact that this all happens while its lead characters spend most of the time sitting around and talking is an achievement of its own, but while Howard may be the one calling the shots, it's the people in front of the camera (namely, Frank Langella and Michael Sheen) that make «Frost / Nixon» one of the absolute must - see films of the year.

Wilder keeps the film zipping along, and has three absolute comic hurricanes in his leads — Curtis cool as anything as he darts between identities, Lemmon gloriously funny in his interaction with smitten millionaire Joe E. Brown, and Monroe endlessly endearing and dunder - headed (no matter how many takes it legendarily took Wilder to get the performance out of her).

Of course you take that prediction with a grain of salt, but just let me say it leads to the film's absolute funniest sequence in which our hero must essentially reinvent himself in a way that won't be revealed here other than to say the Basic Instinct parody alone is worth the price of admissioOf course you take that prediction with a grain of salt, but just let me say it leads to the film's absolute funniest sequence in which our hero must essentially reinvent himself in a way that won't be revealed here other than to say the Basic Instinct parody alone is worth the price of admissioof salt, but just let me say it leads to the film's absolute funniest sequence in which our hero must essentially reinvent himself in a way that won't be revealed here other than to say the Basic Instinct parody alone is worth the price of admissioof admission.

Rebelling against the rigidity of Modernist painting in the linear, reactionary mode of developing new art movements that was at the time à la mode, Breer decided to take change as his own modernist absolute, a choice which would lead him through kinetic sculpture to film.