Sentences with phrase «fearless performances from»

The result is an ambitious, bombastic debut feature for Krokidas, buoyed by a pair of fearless performances from Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan.

Benedict Andrews Una is a meticulous beast, led by fearless performances from Ben Mendelsohn and Rooney Mara.

Through a trippy time structure that I have seen before, «Downloading Nancy,» a darkly perverse movie, makes a valiant attempt to tell her story with some success due to a fearless performance from Maria Bello.

Here's a movie with an impossible setup — a romantic comedy about a woman who decides to get an abortion — that works brilliantly thanks to tactful, confident direction by Gillian Robespierre and a fearless performance from Jenny Slate.

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As a side note, the word «intrepid» (adjective: resolutely fearless; dauntless) in the context of fertilizer is strangely reminiscent of the late - 1960's «Go - Go» market, when dull little companies gave themselves exciting names to divert investors attention from the fact that they were, in fact, dull little companies - as when Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken renamed itself «Performance Systems.»

The concept is wide open for the production to head anywhere it can possibly imagine, and through spirited performances from Cooper, Helms, and Galifianakis (perhaps playing uncomfortably close to his vacant stand - up comedy persona), «Hangover» profits from a fearless attitude that straddles the line between crude and nightmarish.

Vega's performance is a fearless, stripped study in introspection that demands empathy from every audience member.

Luckily, Daniela Vega's debut is a real stunner, a dynamic and absolutely fearless performance that demands attention from costar and camera alike.

What could easily have been a crudely schematic class satire is instead a delicate portrait of a domestic employee's slow emergence from depression and isolation, with a fearless lead performance from Catalina Saavedra.

Filmed with an icy and detached formalism (greatly owed to the expert lensing of frequent Cronenberg collaborator, cinematographer Peter Suschitzky) and bolstered by a fearless ensemble cast which also includes startling performances from Rosanna Arquette and Holly Hunter, it's no surprise that Crash's upsetting premise and constant artful display of sex and violence strongly juxtaposed in a guilefully fetishized manner, upset so many.

Frank is a whining, pathetic oddball with extreme prejudice — and Wilson, in a fearless performance, leaves us uncertain whether to sympathise with, or be repulsed by, this ridiculous schlub who bludgeons not just a queue jumper but also his understandably protesting girlfriend; who acts on prophetic visions that he sees in his own vomit; and who ignores pleas for mercy from a (literally) unarmed man.

The story and production is truly epic in almost every way and director Tom Hooper's brave and courageous direction manages to coax some fearless and unshaken performances from his cast.

Paquin as the film's firebrand centre demonstrates once again what a fearless, direct and unselfconscious actress she is, and there are sensitive performances from the supporting cast.

Gilded with ornate costumes and sets and a rich classical soundtrack, and featuring fearless performances, this operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust, from one of the cinema's great sensualists.