Sentences with phrase «brilliant performances in films»

In the years since her breakthrough in Late Marriage (2001), also an Israeli Oscar submission, and the first Viviane installment, Ronit has become the face of Israeli cinema having delivered brilliant performances in films like The Band's Visit and Or.

Kim Basinger gives a staggeringly brilliant performance in this film, which isn't typical genre fare, but is also more layered than you might expect.

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Great performance by Josh Hartnett - he was brilliant in this film, he delivered quite possibly his best performance and pretty much carried this film.

Filmed on location in Italy and Spain and shot in brilliant Todd - AO and Color and directed by the great British director Carol Reed, Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison (in their first and only film together) give two of the screen's best performances.

The performances are all brilliant, especially from Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Barry Pascal and Denhom Elliot, and overall, the film is an exceptional tale of how greed can fulfill one's dreams while simultaneously destroying everything else in their lives.

Casey Affleck is a damn good actor — his performance in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is brilliant — and I can't wait to see him take his his talents behind a film that is rooted in real - life terror.

It might be difficult to make Ashraf Barhom a household name in the states, but this performance stands out among the brilliant actors in this film.

Original caricature by Jeff York of Ethan Hawke in FIRST REFORMED (copyright 2018) Ethan Hawke has given many brilliant performances in his 33 - year film career, including standouts...... Read more «New from Jeff York on The Establishing Shot: PAUL SCHRADER AND ETHAN HAWKE STUN WITH «FIRST REFORMED»»

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»...... Read more «New Review from Jeff York of Creative Screenwriting Magazine: Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke stun with «First Reformed» ``

Funny, subtle, surprisingly heartfelt, and indisputably brilliant, it features Gene Hackman's best performance since Unforgiven and is one of two films this year in which Gwyneth Paltrow proves herself to be an actress of depth and talent (the other is Shallow Hal).

It's a little reactionary in a kind of «Forrest Gump» - y sort of way — the moral runs that it's better to be decent than brilliant, happy than successful — but the film is well - meaning and the performances from a stellar cast (Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley's accent, Laurence Fishburne, Joan Allen, Laura Linney, William H Macy all show up) mostly walk the right side of mawkishness.

My Man Godfrey features brilliant performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell, and was the first film to receive Academy Award nominations in all four acting categories.

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.

Monroe is the heart and soul of «The Guest,» and she's essayed one of our favorite performances of next year too, in David Robert Mitchell brilliant horror film «It Follows.»

Robin Williams» movie roles saw him go self - indulgently gooey as often as self - indulgently manic, but in his last great film performance in pal Bobcat Goldthwait's black comedy World's Greatest Dad, he's brilliant.

Octavia Spencer's work as Sally Hawkins» friend and co-workers is among the best supporting performances of 2017, Richard Jenkins is brilliant as her best friend and neighbor, and finally, one of the best and totally unrecognized performances in the same film: Michael Shannon as the evil boss representing a premonition of Trump's America.

A brilliant actor giving a wonderful performance in a grostesque and stupid, stupid, stupid film.

And although Lanthimos and regular co-writer Efthymis Filippou took the Best Screenplay award in Cannes, it's the film's sheer all - of - a-piece execution — from pacing and composition, to brilliant use of contemporary composers including (Kubrick fave) Ligeti and Gubaidulina, and expertly modulated performances — which holds you in its steely grip and just never lets go.

Our Take: In our Drive Review we describe the film as a brilliant work of bloody, thrilling, high - art crime drama with some award - worthy performances.

It's also a film whose impact derives from something other than its story and characters — specifically, Wyatt Garfield's brilliant cinematography, which uses 35 mm, 16 mm and Super 8 mm film at a time when almost everyone in the entertainment business is shooting digitally; and the final lead performance by Anton Yelchin, who died last year in a freak accident.

Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor, «Superman I, II, and IV»: We're going to ignore the hot mess that was «Superman IV» and focus on Hackman's brilliant performance in the first two films.

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).

The acting talent in the film has been particularly applauded with Variety describing both Quinn and Hind's performances as «brilliant» and the Village Voice saying «the acting was just superb.»

Strands of music performances and conversations flow in and out of the film to make it a series of impressionist fragments that, once combined, make some sort of brilliant sense.

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.

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.

8:00 am — TCM — In a Lonely Place Simply a brilliant film from director Nicholas Ray — Humphrey Bogart gives probably his best performance as washed - up screenwriter Dixon Steele, who's trying to make a comeback with a new adaptation.

While the odds of seeing two truly extraordinary, brutal but brilliant British films in as many weeks are fairly long, the chances of both films starring the same relative unknown, in two similarly impressive yet fundamentally different performances, must be exponentially smaller.

«Shakespeare in Love» is an utterly brilliant film with amazing performances throughout.

The performances stand for themselves as milestones in American pop culture; what endures is the heartbreak offered by what is essentially an editor's film: all intuitive juxtaposition, and brilliant.

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.

Kidman's performance in The Hours is beyond brilliant, truly one of the most deserving Oscar wins ever (she blew Julianne Moore out of the water in both films she was nominated for).

If Depp's entire performance is as consistently brilliant as the snippets shown in this trailer, Black Mass could be the film that reminds everyone he's one of the great actors of his generation.

It's not as anarchic or brilliant as Hawks's best comedies (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday), but it's a fun film with fine performances all around, especially by Richard Haydn (the guy who was the voice of the caterpillar in Disney's Alice In Wonderland) as one of the wistful old professorin Disney's Alice In Wonderland) as one of the wistful old professorIn Wonderland) as one of the wistful old professors.

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.

Not only did focusing on Theon's face mean that the young actress playing Sansa didn't actually have to try to film a rape scene, which I can only imagine would be a lot to try to take in, but I found the brilliant performance by Theon and the chilling noises to be just as effective, if not more.