Sentences with phrase «bravura performances by»

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.

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

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

It's a bravura performance by a great actress.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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 pointless.