Sentences with phrase «best performance of the year»

Giving one of the best performances of the year and her career, Chastain plays Sloane less as a trailblazer fighting for a good cause and more as an unapologetic addict of winning at any cost.

Cook went on to say that, in China, «growth in iPhone activations has actually accelerated over the past few weeks, and we have had the best performance of the year for the App Store in China during the last 2 weeks.»

Newcrest expects Lihir to produce between 900,000 and 940,000 ounces of gold in fiscal 2018, and to achieve that goal it will need to save its best performance of the year for the three months to June 30.

That's just an aside, though, to a film that's otherwise a suspenseful thriller with some of the best performances of the year from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.

Against united i think that was our best performance of the year, IVE NEVER SEEN AN ARSENAL TEAM DOMINATE MAN U THE WAY WE DID.

It is one of the best performances of the year.

The best performance of the year was Tim Spall as Turner.

Zahler's latest offering is an assault on your senses that sees Vaughn in one of the best performances of the year.

Coogler brings energy to the franchise and revitalizes Sylvester Stallone, while Michael B. Jordan gave one of the best performances of the year.

Last year's Jackie was a psychologically devastating look at the widowed Jackie Kennedy boasting one of the absolute best performances of the year by Natalie Portman, whereas in comparison LBJ is a film that will be thrown on in American History classes only for teenagers to fall asleep.

It probably isn't even worth going there, to imagine they would honor, say, Emayatzy Corinealdi, who gives one of the best performances of the year in Middle of Nowhere.

For my money, though, one of the best performances of the year came from someone unfamiliar to most American audiences: Doona Bae in Cloud Atlas.

Casey Affleck has given one of the very best performances of the year.

Natalie Portman gives one of the best performances of the year and provides a captivating insight to what it must have been like to be the First Lady in the wake of her husband's assassination.

Rachel Weisz's Oscar win was well deserved in my opinion, the best performance of that year hands down.

Yet The Danish Girl fails on both counts, and some of the best performances of the year by Redmayne and Vikander are the chief victims, along with a trans community that will have to wait a bit longer for a film that tells their story and connects with audiences.

Verdict: Last year, Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal teamed up for «Prisoners,» a gripping and beautifully made thriller that featured one of the best performances of the year from Gyllenhaal.

But his best performance of the year was undoubtedly in «Magic Mike» (2012), where he played the owner of a strip club who clashes with his star dancer (Channing Tatum) while dreaming of owning a business empire.

Through a screenplay that holds nothing back (and yet is gentle when it needs to be) to a direction that only adds force to the story's blinding punch to actors who deliver some of the best performances of the year, Whiplash is a movie about music that seldom hits a sour note.

Brit Marling turns in one of the best performances of the year, and she's truly wonderful to watch.

Featuring a powerful performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor and what I consider the best performance of the year (by Lupita Nyong» o), this epic is a must - see and will surely be judged a classic American film in the years to come.

Hilary Swank gives one of the best performances of the year in Tommy Lee Jones» The Homesman.

«Best performance of the year, hands down.

The best performance of the year in one of the best films of the year.

Oh, and Natalie Portman gives the best performance of the year.

This is easily one of the best performances of the year and will be a strong contender to win the Best Actor race.

These are actresses following in Streep's footsteps but to deny that Streep gave one of the best performances of the year is to live cloaked in denial.

The real perfortmance in «Rain Man» was that of Tom Cruise, who we watched evolve over the course of the film, and of course the best performance of that year was Gene Hackman as the tough investigator in «Mississippi Burning.»

Along with its Dorian Awards nomination for Film of the Year, Call Me By Your Name scored nominations for Director of the Year (Film or Television), three acting nods — for Timothée Chalamet (Best Performance of the Year, Actor) and Armie Hammer and Michael Stuhlbarg (Supporting Film Performance of the Year, Actor)-- and a few others.

McConaughey is getting a lot of press for Dallas Buyers Club and The Wolf of Wall Street, but his best performance of the year can be seen here.

Undoubtedly one of the best performances of the year, and one of the best ever in Mike Leigh's illustrious oeuvre.

A gem from director Destin Cretton, featuring one of the best performances of the year by Brie Larson.

Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay give two of the best performances of the year.

Otherwise, aside from the aforementioned «21 Jump Street» and «Beyond The Hills,» I also loved Steven Soderbergh «s «Magic Mike,» his best film, in my eyes, since «Solaris,» while Peter Strickland «s «Berberian Sound Studio» was a hugely impressive sophomore film from the British director, with Toby Jones giving one of the best performances of the year.

And while my predictions suffered for not including either, all in all, I'm really happy with those switches as I believe Bale and DiCaprio put in two of the best performances of the year.

Kate Lyn Sheil gives one of the best performances of the year.

Affleck's work here truly is among the best performances of the year.

Any list of the best performances of the year that doesn't include this one is woefully incomplete.

Florence Pugh gives one of the best performances of the year as a Victorian woman who takes drastic action after being sold into marital slavery.

Indeed, Caleb's uber - rich, genius boss, Nathan (played by Oscar Isaac, in what may be the best performance of the year to date), did design a humanoid robot with all of the traits that Caleb most desires through the secret collection of data from Caleb's computers, cell phones, etc. (there was a special emphasis put upon Caleb's «porn profile» when it came to designing the robot, Ava's, face).

Despite that huge betrayal to its audience, it does at least contain one of the best performances of the year by Trine Dyrholm.

With some of the best performances of the year from Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, and Dianne Wiest, this is one of the strongest dramas of the awards season.

Chris Hemsworth is good here, but Daniel Bruhl gives one of the best performances of the year.

Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) I think Frank Langella gave the best performance of the year as the hearty, angry, cunning former president in «Frost / Nixon.»

She's an actress that came on the scene in some big ways in 2014 with Ex Machina, one of the best performances of that year if you ask us.

It's easy to see this is as a Daniel Day - Lewis movie, but you would be discrediting two of the best performances of the year with Vicky Krieps as Alma and Lesley Manville as Cyril.

Check out some of the TVGuide.com staff's picks for best performances of the year here.

I think I understand Feinberg feeling like LAFCA is saying, «No, the best performance of the year is actually in this movie that only we've seen,» but it's the point of the critics awards to judge on merit and not confine themselves to outside expectations.

Best performances of the year: It's that time of year again — time to rank all things pop culture.

Good performances of the year included Matt Damon, Hillary Swank, Julianne Moore was great in The End of the Affair, Cate Blanchett was good in her Talented Mr Ripley Cameo.