Sentences with phrase «endearing performance»

Gleeson offers a natural, endearing performance although he occasionally veers into Hugh Grant territory, particularly throughout the voiceover.

Mark Ruffalo gives an endearing performance as Cam in Infinitely Polar Bear.

Redmayne steps away from his more serious or nervy roles to give an endearing performance while Hiddleston pulls off a convincingly ridiculous French accent.

Her gift is showcasing a decent, endearing performance no matter what the script throws at her.

The film stars Academy Award - winner Sean Penn (for Mystic River), who rises to the challenge, and thus should be a shoo - in for his fifth nomination for his curiously brash yet endearing performance in the title role.

With an endearing performance by Dennis Christopher (It, Doppelganger) in the lead role, as well as a great supporting cast that includes Dennis Quaid (Dreamscape, Innerspace), Paul Dooley (Runaway Bride, Crazy Little Thing), and an Oscar - nominated role for Barbara Barrie (Private Benjamin, Real Men), there's no shortage of cast chemistry to be found.

Being an outsider within a rowdy group is something we can all identify with, and Mitchell's endearing performance makes the racial element relatable for those who have never had his particular experience.

The talented actress - turned - director Joan Chen (Xiu Xiu) should get the lion's share of the credit as to why what would ordinarily be a routine tearjerker works somewhat, along with an endearing performance by Ryder.

Opposite him, Jerome Holder delivers an endearing performance as the initially troubled Ayyash, headed down a dark path as he tries to make ends meet before letting his sweeter side shine through as he adjusts to a more stable life in the kosher bakery business.

Even the few redeeming aspects like Armie Hammer «s endearing performance and director Gore Verbinski «s skill at putting together set pieces can't stop the film from feeling like being dragged through the desert rather than a rousing ride through canyons and vistas.

It gets by on Nick Frost's endearing performance and a fantastic turn from Kayvan Novak, who steals several scenes as Bruce's flamboyant friend, Bejan.

Cute little charmer with Mature and Patricia Neal winning but the real highlight is Edmund Gwenn's endearing performance.

What we see in Martin Freeman's moving and endearing performance is Bilbo doing just that.

a small, quiet love story of sorts that takes place in the temporal / political outskirts of the vietnam conflict with understated but endearing performances.

Formulaic, cheesy with its fluff and histrionics, - to the point of superficializing a sense of narrative weight, and inconsistent with its tone, pacing and overall structure, this film falls as a pretty forgettable war drama, flavored up by the decent visual style, worthy subject matter, lively direction and endearing performances which secure Jesse Hibbs» «To Hell and Back» as an almost thoroughly entertaining and sometimes effective, if ultimately underwhelming account of Audie Murphy's struggles as a farm boy - turned - military man.

Even though they are purposefully archetypal, the characters are all brought to life through endearing performances.

Whilst the first film was praised by critics for its innocent hmour and boasted endearing performances from Jim Carrey, at the height of his career, and Jeff Bridges, George Byrne of the Herald says the second offering is a «horrible, horrible sequel».

The production features endearing performances by leads Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton who generate a quiet, yet convincing screen chemistry portraying Mildred and Richard as modest working - class heroes.

More than either of these elements, however, 20th Century Women is a film powered by the studied, instinctual, and endlessly endearing performances at its core.

It may not have the emotional resonance of a Pixar movie, but with its playful premise, endearing performances and outstanding score by Alexandre Desplat, «Pets» is fun, family -(and animal --RRB- friendly fare.

Twitter had endless jokes to make about the pairing of Eisenberg and Segel in a film about David Foster Wallace, but The End of the Tour gets the last laugh with each of them pulling off remarkably interesting and endearing performances in a film that feels more than anything like two writers waxing vulnerably about staving off impostor syndrome.

«Band Aid» is a quirky indie with a charming premise, endearing performances, and surprising emotional power.

Still, the film holds a quiet, unassuming appeal, due to some witty moments (an extended sequence in which Erin interviews her ad respondents is a comic highlight) and, most especially, the endearing performances by Davis and Gelfant.

Not exact matches

That's because Gibson, onceknown as Boobie only to his mother, endeared himself to LeBron James - obsessedCleveland fans with his 21 - and 31 - point performances off the bench inGames ¬ † 4 and ¬ † 6 of the Eastern Conference finals against thePistons.

Inevitably, this has led to Rodgers trusting and playing his favourites despite performances which endear them to opposition supporters rather than the Kop.

Their performances were endearing and well - acted, and they always stayed on key, but that's about the extent of the praise I can offer them.

Critic Consensus: A terrific follow - up to The Year My Voice Broke, Flirting is a teen movie worth watching, thanks to emotionally engaging performances and an endearing script.

Critics Consensus: A terrific follow - up to The Year My Voice Broke, Flirting is a teen movie worth watching, thanks to emotionally engaging performances and an endearing script.

There's unexpected sincerity in the performances, with Meester especially endearing as the ice queen finding her voice again.

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

Playful, endearing, and packed with great performances, this movie is a must see.

Charming lead performances help make this happen and turn it into a sweet and endearing film.

His performance alternately eccentric and endearing, Cranston injected the role with the perfect balance of fatherly weirdness and down - to - earth charm, and the series embarked on a healthy run.

Cameron «s superb action direction and stunning visual effects — plus Schwarzenegger «s ultimately endearing (yes, endearing) performance — will blast every other summer film to kingdom come.

Riva and Trintignant are veterans of European cinema — she was in «Hiroshima, mon amour» and «Three Colors: Blue»; he was in «Z» and «A Man and a Woman» — and their natural, unaffected performances are so realistically endearing that we're liable to overlook how difficult they are for an actor to achieve.

Carolyn Genzkow delivers a spirited performance, and the moody electronic score keeps us on constant edge, but it's the creepy parasitic manifestation that steals the show: looking like a cross between E.T. and Belial (the twisted brother from Frank Henenlotter's Basket Case), this nightmare creature is at once repellent and oddly endearing.

Blake and Wilson give wonderfully natural performances: eerie in their casual attitude to murder but endearing in their open natures.

Christie plays the role of the opium - dependent Mrs. Miller with a mix of vulnerability and ferocious strength, while Beatty brings a bumbling, endearing quality to his performance as McCabe.

The real standout, though, is Dwayne Johnson, whose performance is so endearing, so magnetic and so funny that we may justifiably deem Pain and Gain his true breakout film.

Sean Penn delivers one of the best performances of his career as one of Allen's most self - absorbed yet most endearing anti heroes.

But the J & J performance is simply marvelous, memorable and very endearing.

His performance is endearing and his comic - timing absolutely note perfect.

Just as concurrent with the brothers Coen is Saulnier's slick sense of jet - black humour, exploiting Macon Blair's endearing everyman performance to the magnificently macabre end of sanguine slapstick and aggressive absurdism.

ust as concurrent with the brothers Coen is Saulnier's slick sense of jet - black humour, exploiting Macon Blair's endearing everyman performance to the magnificently macabre end of sanguine slapstick and aggressive absurdism.

Screen Daily calls Robot & Frank Frank Langella's «most endearing screen performance in years,» but Film School Rejects notes the film has some moments where it «lags and sags and loses its eager - to - be-pleased audience.»

It's a story one could easily believe happened under our noses, tracing Ray's boozy, gun - toting proclivities and crippling stage fright to his achingly endearing romance with a mute (Samantha Morton in an Oscar - nominated, entirely wordless performance).

The pair are not the best singers, but this makes their performances more endearing.

Wonder is a perfect compliment to his breakout, tour de force performance in Room, and even the oddly endearing The Book of Henry.

Worthwhile for Dan Fogler's breakout performance alone, as he comes across like an endearing combination of Johns Belushi and Candy.

Precocious but unpretentious, funny but not fully in on the joke, Franco has a disarmingly endearing personality, and he brings all of that and more to this performance.