Sentences with phrase «bravura turn»

The few early paintings indebted to bravura turn - of - the - last - century painting styles show an early interest in texture.

Spader is somnambulently morose; Bassett's earnest intensity seems ridiculously out of place for a piece of cheese such as this; the bland Facinelli exhibits no air of menace whatsoever; Lou Diamond Phillips, Wilson Cruz, and Robert Forster (who receives third billing for a five - minute part) simply go through the motions; and a clueless Tunney makes you wonder if she could possibly be the same person who gave such a bravura turn in 1998's Niagara Niagara.

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

Of course, Murphy's bravura turn is aided immeasurably by Rick Baker's outstanding makeup work and the efforts of the visual effects crew, but it is Murphy who gives each one of the Klumps energy and soul.

Casey Affleck won Best Actor for his masterful work in «Manchester by the Sea» while Isabelle Huppert picked up the Best Actress prize for her bravura turn in «Elle.»

From the start of its cinematic universe, in 2008, it opted instead for light doses of humor — epitomized by Robert Downey Jr.'s bravura turn as Iron Man's alter ego, the extravagantly self - loving billionaire inventor Tony Stark.

But these missteps do not blunt the power of Tunney's bravura turn, which carries Niagara Niagara to a level of poignance it would not have otherwise achieved.

Not exact matches

The guessing game over David Miliband's future dominated a day in which he gave his party a glimpse of what could have been — with a concession speech that turned into a bravura display of political theatre.

Fritz Lang turns this into a creepily effective work, full of bravura set pieces and subtle suggestions.

Frances Ha used its quick cuts like punchlines; Mistress America does plenty of that (it's quick, coming in under 90 minutes) but also stages a bravura, extended farce sequence in the Connecticut suburbs that turns its snappy dialogue into a symphony of wit and movement.

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.

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.

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.

Provides some amazing encounters, bravura acting turns and gruesome carnage.

The story of a vagrant who discovers that the man convicted of murdering his parents has been released from prison and sets out to take vengeance, only to become a target of the killer's family in turn, is a bravura follow - up to «Murder Party» by director Jeremy Saulnier.

As he progresses into this century, his work takes a more abstract turn, but it still bears the legacy of a lifetime of close observation and bravura painting.