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The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

Identifying Characteristics: Excellent physique, Tank top, Hoarse voice from screaming, Douchey tribal / Chinese character tattoos that supposedly symbolize strength, but who the hell knows.

The film is anchored by two excellent central performances; normally known for stand - up comedy, Dave Johns as the titular character delivers solid work in his film debut but it's Hayley Squires as the single mother of two who finds herself in some devastating circumstances that truly captures your heart.

Lean on Pete is directed by Andrew Haigh, who, as shown by his previous two films, the excellent Weekend (2011) and the flawed but Oscar - nominated 45 Years (2015), has a sure touch for characters in realistic environments.

Margot Robbie and Allison Janney are excellent in this atypical biography that reaches moments of such absurdity (with characters who are stupid beyond belief) that it becomes surreal and hilarious sometimes, benefiting from the way it plays with the contradictions seen in the interviews.

An impeccably directed character study with excellent performances and a top - notch script mainly sustained on a great dialogue, offering us an insightful look at the creation of the most successful social network by a misanthropic young man who was unable to keep his only friend.

Highly recommended for 2D fighting fans, a must - have for those who enjoyed the previous game, an excellent chance to return to a genre for those who left it years ago, and also a good option for many to discover a new style of game, through a charming roster of characters.

Two - handers, plays or films with only two characters, require two excellent actors who can carry the film.

This is, overwhelmingly, a silly horror flick unconcerned with its silliness: Throughout, it spends a lot of screen time digging into exposition and explanation, including having its American characters interrogate the rural Mexican ones, who conveniently speak — and write — in excellent English.

Phylicia Rashad directs a uniformly excellent cast exploring characters who live their lives at high volume, in all caps

Real - life stuntwoman Zoe Bell (who doubled for Uma Thurman in «Kill Bill» and Lucy Lawless in «Xena: Warrior Princess») and Tracie Thoms (whose role would have been played by Pam Grier or Samuel L. Jackson in any other movie) deliver great performances throughout their half of the film, but it's Kurt Russell who walks away with «Death Proof» as Stuntman Mike, yet another excellent addition to his rogue's gallery of classic characters.

McDormand is excellent as Jane, playing a character who is slightly more out of control than we are used to seeing.

The film boasts an amazing cast — Casey Affleck who can do no wrong playing a psychotic creep; Rooney Mara who has proved herself a solid versatile actor and desperately needs to shrug off the lingering Goth image festering from the wretched Dragon Tattoo film; and a slew of excellent character actors who I adore, Ben Foster and Keith Carradine among them.

Meanwhile there's a host of excellent, underutilised actors who only feature fleetingly, though their characters are so integral to Margaret's political history.

Harrelson is excellent with a character who also takes unexpected turns that we aren't prepared for.

They're both surrounded by jolly friends who deliver excellent one - liners, including Debbie's trainer (Jason Segel, the only other Knocked Up character to return) and gal - pal Barb (Annie Mumolo), and Pete's employees Ronnie (Chris O'Dowd) and Cat (Lena Dunham).

We've got much more piss your pants one liners and forth wall breaking tomfoolery from Wade, it's sweet sensitive and extremely emotional in parts (not since the finale of T2 have I sobbed so much), the OTT action and gore makes a hatchet fight in a Butcher shop look clean in comparison with moments to make hardcore Gore - Geeks give a huge hooray, the cringe worthy «oh no he didn't» moments are rife, there's a touching subplot about what it really means to be Family and also we are treated to an array of colorful supporting characters including an excellent turn from Josh Brolin as futuristic super soldier «Cable», a wonderful performance from upcoming young talented star Julian Dennison (hunt for the wilder people), the obligatory Hugh Jackman cameo and a mega hard Super Villain who makes his previous onscreen incarnation seem like Vinny Jones in a giant penis suit... Oh wait!

Lee Daniels» The Butler is loosely based on the life of Eugene Allen, a man who worked as a butler in the White House for eight different presidents, among them John F. Kennedy (James Marsden, every bit as affable as the likable leader), Lyndon Johnson (Liev Schreiber, who captures the profane and over-the-top character of LBJ), Richard Nixon (John Cusack, the least effective), and Ronald Reagan (Alan Rickman, who surprised me with this excellent performance).

With so many characters to juggle, the film does an excellent job of making it clear who these people are without filling us in with backstories or exposition and without resorting to unimaginative stereotypes.

However, just as it's a predictable response that the majority of people who saw Up were viscerally impacted by the first 10 minutes, the reaction to the film as a whole has also become slightly stereotypical, summed up as follows: the so - called «Married Life» montage, in which we watch the lead character, Carl Fredricksen, and his wife, Ellie, as they live their lives over multiple decades, culminating in her death at an old age, is excellent.

Excellent use is also made of Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), M (Ralph Fiennes) and Q (Ben Whishaw), characters who normally are treated as little more than walk - ons.

Some of the characters in the film were mere silhouettes, Bobby Cannavale, who I thought was excellent in a supporting role in Blue Jasmine, was left twiddling his thumbs in this one.

It's also a movie unusually rich in excellent supporting characters, including Chris Messina as Joe's punchy Florida sidekick Dion, Chris Cooper as the pragmatic, world - weary local police chief, and a translucent Elle Fanning as the chief's daughter Loretta, who drags herself out of heroin addiction to become a beacon of proselytising Christian righteousness.

The video transfer is in crisp 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen while audio is provided in an excellent and immersive Dolby 5.1 English dub (and here my qualification of a «general» lack of a western bias comes into play) that is, nonetheless, inferior to the Japanese - language 2.0 surround track, which features the original vocal talent who have, not including this film, logged over twenty - six hours of finished time voicing these characters.

He has an excellent reason for wanting to send Russell into the mutant afterlife, and Brolin has a gift for playing characters who can't demonstrate their emotions but still have them.

Anna Kendrick, who we all know can sing from Pitch Perfect, is excellent as Cinderella — although both her and Mackenzie Mauzy's Rapunzel are given less character development in order to make time for their musical performances (and one can imagine Christine Baranski, Tammy Blanchard, and Lucy Punch will be featured in some deleted scenes as Cinderella's stepfamily).

Every performance here is great, including Laura Linney in a brilliant cameo as Susan's bourgeois mother, but the Edward story is more engaging thanks to a trio of excellent performances from Shannon, Taylor - Johnson and Gyllenhaal, who has the trickiest job playing two very distinct characters.

The film, like «Fink,» is a sort of portrait of the artists as young men, and anyone who has, or had, creative ambitions will identify with Davis, who is talented enough to acquit himself (Isaac's performances are excellent: he's arguably better than the character is meant to be), but probably not enough to move up to the next level (like Garrett Hedlund, now that we think about it...).

(Don't worry, I know you have no time, just thought I'd mention it) He also wrote The Thicket with the lead character being a dwarf and they are soon to make a film of it with a European director and the actor from Game of Thrones (who happens to be a dwarf and is an excellent actor).

Under «The Evolution of Spider - Man» you'll find Josh Dreck & Eric Matthies's 25 - minute «Spider - Man: The Mythology of the 21st Century,» an excellent primer on the origin of the character and his various transmutations over the years delivered through interviews with a few of the good men who drew him, such as John Romita («The Norman Rockwell of Marvel,» says Todd McFarlane, meaning it as a compliment) and his same - named son.

In the last couple years, he turned in excellent performances as intimidatingly creepy characters in «Winter's Bone» and «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» but now switches gears entirely and beautifully portrays a character who is lovable, warm, and completely inviting.

If both Violette and DeBeauvoir are for the most part difficult to warm to, they are nevertheless intriguing characters who are the subject of excellent performances by both Devos and Kiberlain.

Of the major characters, much has been made of Kirsten Dunst's performance as Justine, and while it is excellent, for me it's Charlotte Gainsbourg who really shines.

They're helped, of course, by some of the most sparkling dialogue in any movie ever (by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich), and a wide range of excellent supporting characters right down to the gangster and his moll who have about five lines of dialogue each but are utterly unforgettable.

There are over 20 playable characters to choose from, including newcomers Mila and Rig, who bring their MMA and Taekwondo skills to the ring and are excellent additions to the cast.

Any film which features a star turn from the wonderful Clarkson (Vicky Christina Barcelona, Shutter Island) is an exciting prospect, and that this boasts a screenplay from the excellent Kernochan, who has more than proven she knows how to write strong female characters, makes this even more so.

As chatty flight attendant Claire, who drags Orlando Bloom's character out of his fog following his father's death, Dunst says just the right, poignant thing at just the right time and has excellent taste in music, as evidenced by her elaborate mix tapes.

Moments of redemption come in the surprisingly excellent performances of the children, who, given little to work with, find a way to flesh out their characters and provide Bushwhacked with spark and even a small measure of joy.

Both Kheda Gazieva as Aminat, Ramasan's still beautiful but exhausted - looking mother and Aslan Elbiev as the ambivalent, mysterious Isa, who was wounded in the conflict (the actor really is missing some fingers which gives the character's dexterity as a handyman an added prurient fascination) are excellent, and the supporting cast of local neighbors, Austrian police officers, social workers and schoolchildren are perfectly cast too.

It's like a picturesque, relaxing ride down a long countryside road in autumn bursting with wonderful imagery; richly developed characters who are both familiar, yet refreshingly unique all complimented by an excellent score that quickly brings you into this small in scope, but big on brilliance effort from Director / Co-Screenwriter Wes Anderson.

You can practically diagram every scene in the film: The ones that slip in the backstories of the characters (Affleck's wife is eight months pregnant; Sibide's work visa is about to expire), the ones that reveal important information in - between the laughs (Tea Leoni's excellent moment as an FBI agent who's had too much to drink), the ones intended to inject some emotion into the picture (an attempted suicide) and the ones where the actors were allowed to riff and improvise (practically any scene in which Murphy appears).

I used this opportunity as a classroom management tool, since only those students who exhibited excellent character were allowed to care for the pets by themselves.

We know teachers across the country are already doing excellent work to promote character and we have recognised 27 schools and organisations who are leading the way in this work through our character awards.

For example, the Community Relations Committee recognizes community leaders who are showing excellent character in the things they do and in the choices they make.

«The Pirelli World Challenge, and the updated European GT4 series, is an excellent opportunity for Maserati and all those teams and clients who would like to race with marque steeped in character and history.

This is excellent advice for people who are starting out and some of the info just made me laugh (which movie stars will be great for their characters)

Excellent characters with plenty of growth, a strong plot from an author who brings the location and the people alive, and an understated Christian message.

Atura Dandenong is modern, luxury conference venue particularly suited to those who seek a change from the usual hotel experience and want a venue with a unique, modern character, excellent service and great value.

Not to be confused with Peter Molyneux's also excellent swords and sorcery game, Bill Willingham's Fables follows the adventures of a clandestine community of fairytale characters, driven from their various homelands by «The Adversary,» who have now taken up residence in a magically concealed corner of New York City.

On the other hand, Injustice 2 also features some excellent portrayals for a number of characters, such as Gorilla Grodd (who is a newcomer to the roster), Green Arrow, and of course, Batman.