Sentences with phrase «endearing performance in»

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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).

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

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.

Alessandro Nivola gives the best performance in the film with a very funny and endearing display as the reckless and egotistical Gavin Harris, Marcel Iures is a strong presence as the boss and Anna Friel (despite sporting a Geordie accent which tends to wander at a moment's notice) is pretty and effective as the love interest.

Culkin proves to be a much greater talent than his has - been older brother in the showier of the two main roles, but the real discovery is Henson, whose performance is made all the more endearing and heartbreaking by its remarkable warmth and subtlety.

Colossus is most obviously CGI but it's never really distracting, and the pitch perfect voice performance by Stefan Kapicic ensures the character is endearing in a goody two shoes lame way.

However, director Stephen Frears and co-writers Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope take this simple logline (based on a true story) and run with it in complete earnestness, crafting a sweet, thoughtful, and endearing story of guilt, redemption, and friendship that is buoyed by a remarkable performance from Judi Dench and excellent chemistry between the actress and her co-star, Steve Coogan.

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

Wilder keeps the film zipping along, and has three absolute comic hurricanes in his leads — Curtis cool as anything as he darts between identities, Lemmon gloriously funny in his interaction with smitten millionaire Joe E. Brown, and Monroe endlessly endearing and dunder - headed (no matter how many takes it legendarily took Wilder to get the performance out of her).

Best characterised as a melding of «Allo «Allo with Star Trek, the film revels in broad performances and a high - school kind of kitsch that's endearing enough and would have taken the film to Galaxy Quest levels if it only had some decent gags.

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.

Julia Roberts turns in an engaging, if less than endearing, performance in the lead role of Liz, a terminally - introspective playwright / journalist stuck in an unhappy marriage.

He delivers one of the most endearing and charismatic performances of his career and happens to have a moment in the film where his expression is solely focussed on, as he hears about the tragic and abusive events that took place.

Following up her fearless performance in Unfaithful, the endearing Lane makes a perfect Frances, one of the few «low - maintenance» Hollywood stars who looks like a real person, and yet stunning at the same time.

Jennifer Hale's performance as Shay's computer mother is genuinely endearing and loveable, a tough act after becoming so accustomed to her voice in nearly every game out there.

In our continuing quest to link everything The New Gamer posts, ever, we present their latest idea, «The Wii Bowling Project», a definitely endearing concept which promises «to see how our Wii Sports bowling performance rated against our league bowling performance.»