Sentences with phrase «brilliant performances»

A number of free schools reported some brilliant performances in recent GCSE and A level results.

Haynes offers a stunning, very detailed period piece of an innocent and touching romance with brilliant performances by Mara and Blanchett.

While not as well - known perhaps as some of Roeg's earlier films — Performance (1970) Walkabout (1971), Don't Look Now (1973) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)-- Fashionista arguably recalls most immediately his comparatively underrated Bad Timing (1980), a film that pits passive - aggressive dickhead Alex (Art Garfunkel in one of the most brilliant performances of early»80s British cinema) against Theresa Russell's Milena, a woman living with mental health issues that he becomes sexually obsessed with.

Mara and Blanchett in particular deliver brilliant performances, especially through their longing gazes and their convincing connection between each other.

Thanks to brilliant performances by Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles; Anton Karas's evocative zither score; Graham Greene's razor - sharp dialogue; and Robert Krasker's dramatic use of light and shadow, The Third Man, directed by the inimitable Carol Reed, only grows in stature as the years pass.

An ideal comedy - that even at 123 minutes, it never feels long - that includes brilliant performances, and a wonderful script (as well as a beautiful score), Julie & Julia is one of the most memorable films I've seen all year.

Outstanding direction by Spike Lee (Jungle Fever, Mo Better Blues), with brilliant performances that highlight a multi-layered and intense film.

His approach resembles that of Alexander Payne, more literate than cinematic, relying on excellent writing and brilliant performances.

Sadly the film was overlooked, particularly the brilliant performances.

Flinty yet sympathetic Spencer Tracy heads one of the all - time A-List casts, with Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift and Judy Garland giving brilliant performances.

Michelle Pfeiffer, who has consistently turned in brilliant performances throughout her career, is one of those.

It's just a superior blend of great comedy timing, character chemistry, brilliant performances and solid writing.

At times, a film will come in boasting (or relying on) a major weapon to entertain audiences: For Avatar, it was the state - of - the - art 3D; most recently, The Help leaned on the brilliant performances by the ensemble cast.

It features brilliant performances from Brooklyn Prince, Bria Vinaite, and Willem Dafoe as well as a final scene that will wrench itself into your memory.

The impressive ensemble of actors turn in brilliant performances, and the script by screenwriter Paul Attanasio (Sphere, The Sum of All Fears), based on a book by Richard N. Goodwin, is full of great writing and moments of serious insight.

His feature debut, The Return, about two brothers coping with their absent father's return, is even better; atmospheric and deeply absorbing with brilliant performances and a thematic depth you can dive into headfirst with no fear of ever hitting the bottom.

Hoffman embraces the opportunity with the same relish he brought to cryptic schemers in «The Master» and «Before the Devil Knows You're Dead,» among many other brilliant performances.

Powered by brilliant performances from Maxine Peake and its young leads (Molly Windsor, Ria Zmitrowicz and Liv Hill), it's an unpleasant and effecting watch, but succeeds largely due to the sympathy and and focus it places on the victims rather than the abusers — something that time and time again, the media fails to do.

Like last year's Silver Linings Playbook, this film features a quartet of brilliant performances.

This engrossing, dialogue - driven piece of work features brilliant performances all round — and could just as easily have been titled «Lost In Translation», had Sofia Coppola not gotten there first.

Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins deliver brilliant performances as the New England couple at the center of the drama.

Brilliant performances by the entire cast highlight this impeccably directed and impressively mounted epic, with outstanding performances by Ustinov (Logan's Run, Lorenzo's Oil) and Laughton (Jamaica Inn, Witness for the Prosecution) in particular.

It may be super-long, but the time whizzes by, and there are half a dozen brilliant performances.

Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy, this Oscar - winning film (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay) features brilliant performances by Voight and Hoffman, and brings to the screen an unusually gritty realism in its portrayal of the streets of New York City.

Ethan Hawke has given many brilliant performances in his 33 - year film career, including standouts like GATTACA, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU»RE DEAD, BOYHOOD, and the BEFORE SUNRISE trilogy.

Meryl Streep won the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes Sunday night in honor of a career full of brilliant performances.

Directed with kinetic style by Danny Boyle and featuring brilliant performances from a cast of actors unknown to American audiences, «Slumdog Millionaire» plunges us soul - deep into a world of unimaginable poverty and breathtaking beauty.

Byfar i have watched it 21 times & i am as eager to see it again for 22nd time... Brilliant performances.

First, I need to mention the absolutely brilliant performances from both Wood and Julia Sarah Stone as Eva.

Once again, Middle Earth has been beautifully brought to the big screen, and once again we have some brilliant performances peppered throughout the bloated running time.

The films quirky humour and outlandishness is all held together by the brilliant performances of the two key players.

This version stars Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin, all Oscar - winners with decades of brilliant performances.

Suburban Mayhem's deliriously amoral tone is fantastic, and this is a well made film with brilliant performances.

It's no knock on her talent to suggest that she has never had a role as rich, extreme or demanding since, though her brilliant performances in pictures as different as «21 Grams,» «We Don't Live Here Anymore,» «King Kong» and «The Impossible» found her scaling the estimable peak of her powers nonetheless.

Brilliant performances from all the actors.

The Brothers Bloom is an odd, somewhat distancing, but still curiously satisfying confection that may not leave the indelible impression in the mind that Brick does, but, thanks to the brilliant performances, literary presentation, and kitschy European art design, offers a nice bit of escapism into its uniquely quirky world, not dissimilar to the way Wes Anderson might do if he were to create a film with more of a conventional plot (Anderson's Bottle Rocket perhaps comes closest to the spirit of Johnson's film from a story standpoint).

Steve Jobs features an increibably fast - paced script written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and showcases brilliant performances from Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Jeff Daniels, and Seth Rogen.

Featuring brilliant performances from Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort that made the film a favorite of fans and critics alike, this inspirational modern day tale of star - crossed lovers will have you going from laughter to tears and back again.

It was a career - high for the Coens, with brilliant performances from Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem as a psychopathic hitman with a pageboy bob.

There are some brilliant performances by these young actors.

As familiar as the coming - of - age comedy may seem, «Lady Bird» is filled with so many charming surprises and brilliant performances, most other films of its type feel even more mundane by comparison.

boasts brilliant performances by Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer and also by the strong supporting cast.

That's one of his brilliant performances and brave, because he wasn't afraid to play the flat - out racism.

A fantastically complex study of the unromantic side of marriage, the trials and tribulations that befall true love, The Last Station boasts brilliant performances by Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer and also by the strong supporting cast.

She gave us brilliant performances in Indi Movies like Junebug, in Dramas like Doubt in Comedies like Enchanted....

It also boasts some brilliant performances, not least from Moore, who brings a delicious blend of glamour and neurosis to her role, and Wasikowska as the seemingly innocent interloper who brings her own set of secrets and lies.

Brilliant performances from both Redford and Fonda.

Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the movie is both funny and sad, with brilliant performances by McDormand and by Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson as local policemen.

A powerful and important story backed up by some brilliant performances.

Directed superbly by Cherie Nowlan, who years ago introduced us to Cate Blanchett in Thank God He Met Lizzie, this is a strong yet simple film that can boast some brilliant performances from veterans like Frankie J. Holden, Phillip Quast and Blethyn as well as newcomers Chittenden and Booth.