Sentences with phrase «bravura performance in»

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.

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Even big Cameron critic, James Delingpole at The Telegraph was positive (about the performance at least): «Cameron's speech was a bravura exercise in super-salesmanship.

More than half of Labour voters (56 per cent) are pleased with Mr Corbyn's performance while just 25 per cent believe shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was widely lauded for a bravura Commons speech backing military action against Islamic State in Syria, would make a good replacement, rising to 42 per cent among Conservative voters.

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.

In what may be the film's most bravura sequence, Isabelle meets the young and swarthy actor after a performance, after which she manages to painstakingly cajole him back to her place.

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.

Testimony has one great dramatic center, some bravura Steadycam sequences, effective newsreel - styled black and white cinematography, and a greater diversity of music to offset a weak script, clumsy montages, and surprisingly banal performances from supporting players (except Ronald Pickup, who also played Nietzsche in Wagner).

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.

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 CusacIn 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 Cusacin a film that features two bravura performances by Paul Dano and John Cusack.

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

He exudes the same charisma and sexual bravura that made him famous but without the least whiff of sex symbol status coming through in the performance.

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

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.

Containing what may be the single most terrifying sexual assault sequence in TV history, and Stiles» silken bravura performance, «Blue» is also the rare show to get mental illness on the money.

It is a fascinating and bravura performance from Glenn Close, in this hugely enjoyable dark comedy from director Björn Runge, adapted by Jane Anderson from the novel by Meg Wolitzer.

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 pointlesin 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 pointlesIn London»), «Victor Frankenstein» is, despite bravura performances from committed young leads Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, all kinds of obnoxious and pointless.

With his bravura performance, Denzel Washington shifts the balance of Lorraine Hansberry's classic play, and he shifts it in the right direction

Margot Robbie in a bravura, kick ass performance plays Tonya Harding the figure skater best known for maybe engineering the bashing in of her nemesis» Nancy Kerrigan's knee.

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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.