Sentences with phrase «false note»

That is the only false note in her entire performance.

It's a mesmerizing performance, one that doesn't seem like it includes a single false note.

It is a rare false note in a fascinating work.

She doesn't hit one false note in the whole movie, and evokes a huge amount of empathy for a character whose actions are often less than honorable.

He carries this film on his shoulders and never strikes a single false note.

The result is passage after passage of stunning writing that is lost in a din of false notes.»

Adepero Oduye rings not a single false note as a 17 - year - old coming out and finding her stride.

The only real false notes are struck by Doug's friends, a standard - issue gang of fools and louts who could have dropped in from any sitcom.

The only false note in the cast is Patrick John Flueger, who plays Ariel's car racing boyfriend, Chuck.

Third, and most important by far, he has an extraordinary feeling for the small detail that makes a drawing absolutely right — a vital factor in sport, where one false note brings bags of irate and indignant mail.

It's the one obviously false note, but while everything else is more tasteful, none of it can land even the softest punch.

Beyond these startling apparitions, there's a surplus of mumbo - jumbo in here — and some ludicrously false notes.

I'm reluctant to write off Draft Day entirely simply because of the numerous false notes it ends upon.

(One clanging false note: the security key cards used by Nathan and Caleb to navigate the premises.

There is not one false note placed.

To be hyper - critical, there is also one other false note, in a scene in which poor tormented Patsey inexplicably tries to pay Solomon to drown her, an unfortunate misreading of an ambiguous passage in the book, in which Solomon actually reveals that Mistress Epps tried to bribe him to «put her secretly to death, and bury her body in some lonely place in the margin of the swamp».

Perhaps the sole false note of Cooke's film comes in its final scene, one that channels emotion in the most familiar cinematic terms.

The American boys I'd dated in college and immediately afterward brought their offhand confidence into the bedroom, where it struck the same slightly false note that it did in company.

One of the few false notes is struck by Benedict Cumberbatch, oddly miscast as Bulger's younger brother Billy, who was a Democratic Senator and long - standing President of the Massachusetts State Senate.

Chalamet, who also can be seen this season in supporting roles in Lady Bird and Hostiles, is an actor of great promise who doesn't strike a single false note in balancing the conflicting feelings running through him.

The characters are unfailingly polite, whatever their grievances, and there isn't a single false note in this generous, affectionate portrait of people making the best of their situation.

Grosbard mercifully avoids melodrama — the only real false notes are musical ones, from a score by Elmer Bernstein that turns familiar and trite when the film does not.

A tacked - on «uplifting» finale provides the film's only false note.

The whole character and her backstory just seemed implausible, and it struck a false note given how realistic both Strike and Robin were written.

Mr. Quaid has long been a reliably likable actor, but this time he pitches a perfect performance — no frills, no tricks, not a single false note — in a film that's true to its stirring subject, and to the sweetest traditions of the game.

There isn't a false note in the entire 112 minutes.

Finally recalls a less convincing version of those of Anthony Mann which managed realism and the mythic without a false note.

Mr. Braff, Ms. Portman, Mr. Sarsgaard and Mr. Holm never strike a false note as a remarkably coherent acting ensemble, and it is good to see Ron Leibman again in the small role of Doctor Cohen.

The poorly directed «Turn the River» wastes a good cast in a failed attempt to capture the atmosphere of smoke - filled pool halls by going for a melodramatic premise that ends on a false note.

Only poor Alexander elevates the material, with a kind of quiet dignity that doesn't quite survive a scene in which he stumbles around screeching with an orangutan on his head; the moments he shares with his boys are free of histrionics and false notes.

It's a hazard of the acting trade that the more emotionally painful or profound a role, the more attuned an audience will be to the forced, false note.

The cast are also «all in» on the story, with nary a false note in sight.

She's surrounded by a very good ensemble; Brian Marc (apparently a musician - turned - actor) doesn't hit a false note as Blue, who is a more complicated character than we might initially think.

Triumphalism is avoided, but the Seals» macho talk and a brutal fight between the two competitors for leadership of the assault team strike a false note.

There's not a false note in the entire picture, much of its dramatic weight a result of Oscar Isaac's tour de force performance.

There is one crazy man in a tinfoil helmet on the street raving about the planet, one of the movie's few false notes (crazy or not, does anyone seriously wear tinfoil hats?).

But has he struck a false note?

After the film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize, Variety film critic Todd McCarthy wrote, «Gosling and Williams interact beautifully and without a false note, their deep immersion in their roles resulting in nothing but behavioral truths.»

Though familiar in subject matter, despite its uniquely confident female perspective, Gerwig never hits a false note, oscillating between wisdom and poignancy without falling into the trap of the nostalgia from a period so clearly influencing this sweetly tuned homage to misguided angst, ignorant yearnings, and the desire to break out on one's own.

I really worked through the details of the character, because it was so important to me that there not be a false note.

The false notes were enough to earn some unintended chuckles at my largely quiet critics» screening.

Chastain simply is astonishing as she assumes the mantle of this unsinkable Molly Bloom with a force that never strikes a false note.

As hard as Hughes tries to be honest about adolescence's pains and parent - set pressures, he can't help but strike a few false notes.

Natalie Wood in «Miracle on 34th Street» (1947): I have seen this film over 50 times and I have yet to see a false note in her performance.

There are also a few false notes to characters in the unfolding.

All of the actors are riveting, but the most striking, haunting performance comes from Deakin, who never hits a false note.