Sentences with phrase «bravura performance as»

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.

Bottom line: Jude Law gives a bravura performance as the title character, but you can't escape the feeling that this 2013 crime comedy - drama could have been either funnier or more dramatic.

Natalie Portman in a bravura performance as a driven perfectionist, a young ballerina up for a starring role at Lincoln Center.

In the impeccably casted Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Frances McDormand gives a bravura performance as a mother seeking answers to the unsolved rape and murder of her daughter.

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.

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...

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.

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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.

Both of these films are driven by bravura, brilliant, show - stopping performances, as Ronan's is, as Sally Hawkins» is and of course, as Frances McDormand's is.

As the mute cleaning lady Elisa, Sally Hawkins gives a bravura, nearly silent performance, and rarely has an actor been able to express so much without words.

It's also an unsurprisingly bravura showcase for Day - Lewis, who, in what will reportedly be his final screen performance, has left us with something rich, indelible and at times marvelously loathsome — a portrait of the artist as a fey, prickly, hyper - demanding middle - aged man.

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

Whether she's a prim homemaker intoning Malevich's Suprematist call for truth over sincerity to her children at the dinner table as if it were grace, a dishevelled homeless man in an apocalyptic wasteland declaring the old world dead, or a wasted party reveller praising a century illuminated by electricity, Blanchett's performance has a chameleon bravura that turns what could have been a dry conceptual exercise into a hilariously absurdist provocation.

There is a certain pleasure, to be sure, from watching McAvoy, who delivers a bravura performance — including a scene - stealing dance as Hedwig and an array of mannerisms, accents and vocal nuance — that is almost worth the price of admission.

Brian Hegeland) Tom Hardy gives a bravura double performance as Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the identical twin brothers who became the rulers of the London underworld at the height of the swinging»60s.

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.

Similarly, Sheen gives a wonderful performance as David Frost, in spite of being somewhat of a support act to Langella's bravura turn.

In a bravura performance, Shultz articulated the rationales for a carbon tax (and against cap / trade), including cap / trade's price volatility and vulnerability to market manipulation, a carbon tax's straightforwardness, and the success (and revenue - neutrality) of British Columbia's carbon tax, as well as the general power of pricing and the insurance value of a carbon tax.