Sentences with phrase «confident debut»

It's an assured, confident debut from Gerwig, and one that signals a stunning future for the actor and filmmaker behind the camera.

An astoundingly confident debut feature from actress - turned - director Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird chronicles an entire year in the life of its eponymous teenage protagonist in just ninety minutes, without ever feeling scant or vague.

In this bold, genre - defying horror - musical mashup — the playful and confident debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska — a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters are drawn ashore in an alternate»80s Poland to explore the wonders and temptations of life on land.

Critics Consensus: Smart, energetic, and a little bit silly, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert succeeds largely due to the charisma of its host, whose confident debut promises a bright future for the revamped show.

Critic Consensus: Smart, energetic, and a little bit silly, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert succeeds largely due to the charisma of its host, whose confident debut promises a bright future for the revamped show.

This was one of the most confident debuts in years.

It's a brashly confident debut, full of sharp, inventive detail (the prawns are crazy for cat food) and rooted in a couple of Big Ideas.

It's rare that anything associated with Charles Manson can put a smile on your face but J. Davis» confident debut does just that, making for a surprisingly sweet and thought - provoking cinematic journey.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

And then there's Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, who gives the kind of breathtakingly confident debut that reminds one of Lawrence in Granik's breakout or Kate Winslet in «Heavenly Creatures.»

The To Do List makes for a crassly confident debut, skewering expectations with a javelin and Carey's film has so much fun with 90s nostalgia that it will appeal to those who were teenagers then, as well as those who are in their teens (and twenties) now.

«Obvious Child» is Robespierre's first feature, and it is an incredibly confident debut.

Actually, Pynchon's alarmingly confident debut novel, 1963's V., is a great way into Gravity's Rainbow.

This is a fantastically confident debut — I can't wait for Jan Redford's next book.

It's a remarkably assured and confident debut from Peele, and perfectly cast.

In 2004, NYU film grad Debra Granik spun a student short into a ragged but confident debut feature, «Down to the Bone,» that landed her a Sundance award and kick - started the career of a sensational actress named Vera Farmiga.

No, Corlaie Fargeat's hyper - confident debut is something much scarier and more satisfying than that, a fact that becomes discomfortingly clear once two of Richard's bros stop by uninvited, fresh from hunting and armed with some high - powered rifles.

While not as tightly assembled as it could have been in its latter half, True Story still possesses enough suspense and impressive performances to make for entertaining viewing, and marks a confident debut from first - time feature director Rupert Goold.

The film's matching of its ethereal visuals with its emotional journey makes this both a confident debut and a perceptive evocation of adolescent tumult.

You'd think that such a rich film and confident debut would lend to a director's audio commentary, but that is not offered here.

With Michael Shannon and Luke Evans also upending expectations in supporting roles, it's a confident debut that should reap considerable attention from distributors, and opportunities for Danluck, following its premiere at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

The movie is a confident debut from director Chad Stahelski and Keanu Reeves is in excellent form as a former assassin out for revenge against a criminal who wronged him.

A confident debut by writer / director John Michael McDonagh, The Guard can sometimes be a touch too clever for its own good â $ «such as when the villains discuss their favourite philosophers â $ «but quality acting keeps things the right side of quirky.

This is the kind of confident debut that promises better to come, and yet I'm still compelled to remind people how Ryan Gosling got skewered for liberally borrowing — some say downright thieving — from his inspirations when he delivered Lost River in his directorial debut.

It's a confident debut from Mackie Burns, trusting in Beecham to wring the required tension from a look here and a phrase there.

It's a confident debut, steeped in genre tropes, but mostly able to create its own identity.