Sentences with phrase «bravura performance»

She gives a top - to - bottom bravura performance as a grieving mother antagonizing the town's cops until they find a lead on her daughter's killer, burying her pain under a thick mantle layer of pure rage.

In what really could be considered a leading role (and might very well turn out to be), Banks holds her own in a film that features two bravura performances by Paul Dano and John Cusack.

German - American actress Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) gives a bold, bravura performance in writer - director Fatih Akins» occasionally conventional but always compelling revenge - rattled new film, In the Fade.

Kevin Kline tends to give bravura performances even when he's not playing bravura characters.

But back to the play - Vaughan - Lawlor delivered a commanding and bravura performance with plenty of puffing, scrapping and yapping about The Avalanche's ski pants, the ladyboy and the Mousie.

A rueful smile acknowledging that Hal has learned from him — After all, Hal is now delivering the type of bravura performance of kingliness that Falstaff would offer on the tables of the Boar's Head Tavern.

The game features bravura performances from favorite voice actors like Kath Soucie (Phil and Lil, Rugrats) and Maurice LaMarche (Brain, Pinky and the Brain).

The women have all of the heat this year, thanks to a handful of bravura performances at the hands of gifted, courageous filmmakers like Lisa Cholodenko, Darren Aronofsky, Debra Granik, John Cameron Mitchell, Doug Liman, Derek Cianfrance,...

A back - heeled finish against Swansea or an increasingly rare bravura performance against a team such as Newcastle isn't enough to make up for the number of simple passes miss - hit and touches worthy of a rubber band.

Oscar - winner Duvall's (Tender Mercies) bravura performance breaks through the stereotypes of ministers seen in so many feature films.

Although the film lacks an engaging narrative or structure and has none of the stunningly composed long takes and bravura performances found in 0.5 mm, Han Han's trademark scepticism and wry reserve still shine through in his first directorial effort.

Directed by Paul McGuigan (of «Lucky Number Slevin,» which should have tipped me off a little) from a screen story and script by Max Landis (of whom it can be said, at the very least, that horror appreciation runs in his family, what with his father having made «An American Werewolf In London»), «Victor Frankenstein» is, despite bravura performances from committed young leads Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, all kinds of obnoxious and pointless.

The Benefactor review: Richard Gere's bravura performance as an eccentric philanthropist on the edge is worth the price of admission, despite the film's prosaic...

With her booze - soaked, bravura performance in A Single Man and her upcoming turn as an Amanda Seyfried - obsessed wife in the «erotic thriller» Chloe, you may be feeling like you've been seeing a lot more of Julianne Moore these days.

Joanna reviewed Jackie at TIFF and she's right that it's a balls - out bravura performance from Portman.

A lushly produced epic about the harsh realities of creative expression, featuring bravura performances and Oscar - winning costume design and makeup, Topsy - Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema's great artists.

And another bravura performance!

But when it became clear it was Leave that would «edge it», he returned and gave a bravura performance for the TV cameras.

Artistically constructed, and featuring a bravura performance from Ewan McGregor, Trainspotting craftily balances both a dark and charming tone.

And through Will Patton's bravura performance, Sam becomes as much a center of the story as Dee who has the most to lose and proves there is always something worth fighting for.

Stunning visuals and a bravura performance from newcomer Suraj Sharma as the young protagonist make Life of Pi a quest destined to impress.

Christian Bale delivers a bravura performance as an unhinged Gulf War veteran leading his boyhood best friend (Freddy Rodriguez) astray during a drug - fueled foray into the seedier side of Los Angeles in this gritty drama.

Stylish, sophisticated, simmering crime and character drama with Shakespearean dimension and bravura performances.

Critic Consensus: Bracingly intense, passionate, and wildly melodramatic, Black Swan glides on Darren Aronofsky's bold direction — and a bravura performance from Natalie Portman.

Critic Consensus: Impeccably mounted but occasionally bombastic, Les Misérables largely succeeds thanks to bravura performances from its distinguished cast.

Critics Consensus: Bracingly intense, passionate, and wildly melodramatic, Black Swan glides on Darren Aronofsky's bold direction — and a bravura performance from Natalie Portman.

But at the heart of all this artistry lies a touching story of friendship, new love, and recurrent loss, anchored by a bravura performance by lead Bazili, a non-professional actor of immense promise.

This is a riveting film with a bravura performance by Cranston, who's been the signature television actor of the past decade.

Critics Consensus: Impeccably mounted but occasionally bombastic, Les Misérables largely succeeds thanks to bravura performances from its distinguished cast.

It's fitting how A Most Wanted Man's final scene is its peak, Hoffman delivering another bravura performance to add to his roster of many.

Gary Oldman's win for his bravura performance as Winston Churchill in «Darkest Hour» was the most quintessential Oscar victory of the night, and Oldman's speech was a lovely embrace of that tradition.

Richard Gere delivers a bravura performance in his title role of a Duddy Kravitz - style hustler, especially in a wordless early sequence that speaks volumes about his character.

Partly due to the iconic nature of the story and partly due to Bullock's bravura performance, we do root for Ryan Stone.

The Messenger does have two Oscar nominations, for its screenplay and for Harrelson's bravura performance.

But after a scene or two, he settles into the part and he settles in very nicely... If Cooper doesn't eclipse John Hurt in David Lynch's film version, he gives a bravura performance and occasionally quite a moving one.

So many men turn in bravura performances that drag a film along with it towards a win — McDormand is good enough to do just that.

An interesting and intriguing story bounds the character piece, helmed by another bravura performance by Jake Gyllenhaal.

It's lurid and warped and more than a little dodgy, but it comes off thanks to the bravura performance — or performances — of James McAvoy, who throws himself into the role — or roles — with an admirable mix of skill and abandon.

I suppose you could read some darkly feminist subtext into Vicky Krieps» bravura performance as a young muse and paramour seizing control over Woodcock and her own destiny, but to do so would be to force Anderson's splendidly slippery creation into a generic mold that it instinctively rebels against.

12 Years a Slave did it three years ago via punishing violence and bravura performances; a year later Gravity achieved unparalleled visual grandeur films two years on are still trying to match.

Roger is the sort of fast - talking hustler who ends his bravura performances with an ironic flourish: «Thank you, I love you people.»

I fell in love with Clarkson after I saw her bravura performance in «High Art,» a great film unjustly overlooked at Oscar time.

It's a bit of a shame that it nearly overshadows Tilly's delightful ditz, another Oscar nominated performance that likely would have won were it not pitted against another bravura performance from the same film.

Watching his bravura performance at the lectern throughout is his wife, but Marston's eye is particularly drawn to Olive (Bella Heathcote), a student whose doll - like prettiness (and an aunt and mother who are pioneer feminists) intrigues him.

Robyn (Mia Wasikowska, in a bravura performance) spends two hardscrabble years in the Alice Springs area learning how to train and care for camels (feral herds of which number in the thousands in Western Australia) in order to prepare for her journey.

As Mishima, Ken Ogata turns in a determined and bravura performance, while Phillip Glass» modernist score lends an ethereal, intense undercurrent.

It absolutely is the bravura performance you'd expect.