Sentences with phrase «fascinating performance»

Although the promising drama has its self - conscious moments when the offbeat stuff seems a trifle forced, Laurie delivers a consistently fascinating performance as the abrasive diagnostician.

Hader pulls off one of his most fascinating performances yet as the title character.

It had the elements of the New Age mysticism but they led nowhere when the going was tough - it tried to be uplifting but most of the characters finished where they started... I have to say that there were fascinating performances from most of the cast, especially from Josh Pais as Abbie's uptight (slightly autistic or neurotic) brother, spending most of his time in the floundering dental practice which receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch.

Kristen Stewart is a very interesting actress: she radiates a kind of intense unhappiness, and given the right director can produce fascinating performances.

She continues to lift any genre effort she appears in as she crafts fascinating performances out of rote characters on the page.

It's a sweaty, monumentally fascinating performance, one that showcases the actor very near the top of his game, McConaughey fearlessly going for broke as he makes a variety of decision running the gamut between selflessly heartfelt and selfishly callous while also making a number of intriguing pit stops along the way.

Brie Larson («Short Term 12», «The Spectacular Now») delivers a delicate and endlessly fascinating performance.

Bringing together fascinating performance photographs with vivid full - color reproductions, the book is the first to explore the complex relationship between Dine's mixed - media works and his environments and theater pieces.

In Mary Harron's debut feature, «I Shot Andy Warhol,» Lili Taylor gives a dynamically spot - on, suitably annoying, never - less - than - fascinating performance as the progressively demented woman who shot the silver - wigged artist.

But A Fantastic Woman was the most accomplished mainstream film in competition at this year's Berlinale, and as Marina, transgender performer Daniela Vega gave one of the most fascinating performances to be seen here, shifting moods — and almost shifting the lines of her face — from shot to shot with mercurial fluidity.

It's a fascinating performance — never showy, but still quite commanding.

Frank Langella, reprising his role from the 2006 source play by Peter Morgan (screenwriter of The Queen and The Last King of Scotland), gives a fascinating performance as the angry exiled statesman.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford This ambitious, richly rendered look at an American legend and his demise is an overly mutated mixture of voice - over narration, striking imagery and fascinating performance.

Ethan Hawke gives a fascinating performance in this reimagined biography which fictionalizes the details of Baker's late 60's comeback.

And about good performances in bad films the first name that came to my mind was Ashley Judd and her fascinating performances in Eye of the beholder, Bug and Come early morning; and Jessica Biel is also pretty good in that awful mess named Home of the brave.

Each of their films exhibit nuanced, fascinating performances and a deeply - felt sense of character, all which will fuel the pairs passion around telling Carol Danvers» Story.

This is a subtle, fascinating performance — a chronicle of a man who destroyed lives, including those of his family members, but never quite understood the depths of his own evil.

Those still smarting over Matthew McConaughey's Oscar snub for his fascinating performance in Magic Mike (seriously!

It's a fascinating performance; Parker shows us Nat's tiny, tight smile, his automatic «yessir,» his expression that seems to instantly harden into stone as soon as Hammer's character looks away.

Josh Brolin brings the same intensity to the character of Cable that he delivers in deadly serious roles in films such as «No Country For Old Men» and «Sicario,» and that makes for a great and fascinating performance.

This ambitious, richly rendered look at an American legend and his demise is an overly mutated mixture of voice - over narration, striking imagery and fascinating performance.