Sentences with phrase «fine performances»

It's an OK movie with a couple of fine performances.

And while they both give fine performances in that film, here the two of them are already an unbeatable double act.

He crafts subtle parallels between the quests for love and fitness, and draws fine performances from his cast to make them stick.

If it's a familiar story — and it is — it at least offers the sweet pleasures of meticulous period details and fine performances by all involved.

Thankfully, the cast helps flesh out these tools of the script with fine performances all around.

This in no way reflects on the nominees, who all gave fine performances, but closer inspection indicates that the material was pretty thin.

A labour of constant devotion to building the very finest performance cars the world has known.

It is a thought - provoking work that contains many fine performances and memorable sequences.

My Choice: Another solid category, with fine performances all around.

It is always a delight for a film to boast fine performances of subtle nuance and palpable emotion.

With No, however, his usual fine performance is showcased in an equally fine film.

The Best Supporting Actress category is a lot more wide open than Supporting Actor, but there are plenty of fine performances that are likely to be recognized.

I believe the film has many fine performances, but as a film it is not enjoyable.

He delivers as fine a performance as possible under the circumstances, but it's an ill fit to consider him a semi-cosmopolitan author transplanted to Europe who has the playboy charisma to tell a young woman that he's been watching her through her window for weeks and hopes he catches her in the act of undressing and have her feel flattered.

Lacazette's profile has been enhanced considerably following fine performances for Lyon in Ligue 1 over the last two seasons.

But this may be Benedict Cumberbatch's finest performance yet.

Despite fine performances from a well - chosen cast, the characters aren't furnished with much psychological depth, and their motives remain patently simple.

On Arsenal's fine performance on Merseyside, Ramsey added: «We needed that, like you said it was our first away win of the season, we scored a few goals as well.

There are so many fine performances here it's difficult to single out just a few, but in the early going the season offers especially good and illuminating moments for Aidan Gillen as the scheming Petyr «Littlefinger» Baelish; Gwendoline Christie as the towering warrior Brienne; and Stephen Dillane as Stannis Baratheon, whose last - minute season - four heroics represent part of a larger plan designed to advance his quest to rule Westeros.

But even if the print were as muddy as it had been before the painstaking restoration, this would still be a first - rate thriller, suspenseful, creepy, and wittily written (by John Michael Hayes), featuring fine performances by the entire cast.

There were many fine performances at Alabama's pro day on March 13 in Tuscaloosa, but none so intense, so all - in, so loud as the effort put forth by Scott Cochran, the Crimson Tide strength coach whose Klaxon voice provided a frenetic, urgent sound track to the proceedings.

And Tucci, who gets fine performances from Rush and Hammer, manages to pull it off.

But they are not alone with several clubs now watching regularly following the striker's fine performance against Arsenal in the Europa League.

The supporting cast all offer fine performances in their respective roles, most notably, R. Lee Ermey as Clyde Percy, Robert Prosky as Hilton Barber and Raymond J. Barry Earl Delacroix.

Both will be important additions on the pitch, where the duo produced fine performances in Saturday's 5 - 1 win over Everton, but they also bear symbolic significance in the post-Alexis Sanchez era.

He's also able to get fine performances out of his actors, especially Noomi Rapace as Beatrice.

Among the supporting players, the movies sees fine performances from the likes of Diane Lane as Rusty's sometimes girlfriend, the then - little - known likes of Nicolas Cage (Coppola's nephew and the son of August), Chris Penn and Vincent Spano as members of Rusty's gang, Laurence Fishburne as a local go - between and Sofia Coppola, billed as Domino, who is funny and charming in a few brief scenes as Lane's bratty younger sister.

Expertly paced — no corners cut, but not flagging, either — and buoyed by subtle shifts in tone mostly rendered through fine performances, this new Howards End is both deftly separate from the classic and successful on its own merits.

Like many actors - turned - directors, Costner has a knack for eliciting fine performances from the members of his cast.

Cillian Murphy is a rising young actor who has delivered several fine performances of late (in Batman Begins, Red Eye, and Breakfast on Pluto, among others) and possesses arguably the most piercing blue eyes since Paul Newman.

There are several other fine performances in the eclectic cast that features Sam Shepard, Sam Rockwell and Paul Schneider.

Bravo will have been aware of ter Stegen's fine performances during cup matches and the Chilean international will surely have to continue his good run of form as well, in order to stave off the competition from the German youngster.

LUCKY features Harry Dean Stanton's final, and perhaps finest performance in a film that addresses the end of life issues for an atheist from a practical and philosophical point of view that is both wry and poignant..

Directed by Chad Hartigan, who won Sundance's Best of Next prize in 2013 for This is Martin Bonner, Morris may be relatively light viewing but with fine performances across the board and a semi-charmed approach to talking about race and culture, Morris is a crowd - pleasing success story that could find love outside the festival circuit.

Cate Blanchett had two fine performances last year — Babel and Notes on a Scandal.

First, the good stuff: «Lion,» which was adapted by Luke Davies («Candy») from Brierly's memoir «A Long Way Home,» is sensitive and measured, with fine performances throughout, as well as a glossy look courtesy of «Top of the Lake» director Garth Davis.

The third of its spectacularly fine performances comes from Ben Kingsley as the reserved, wary Jewish accountant who becomes Oskar's trusted business manager, and who at one point has been rounded up by Nazi officers before Oskar saves him.

The base Contour gets perfectly fine performance from its 2 - liter, 125 - horsepower engine and 14 - inch all - season radials.

The core concept, which follows a young man who seems entirely unlikely to participate in an illegal narcotics ring as he does just that, is intriguing, and the movie's central character, anchored by a really fine performance from the lead actor, becomes a fascinating collection of paradoxes.

If you're new to the 4K game, and not one too get upset about a few fine performance drawbacks, you may well be blown away by the KU7000.

In December, Sterling was named Europe's best young player at the «Golden Boy» awards and his continued fine performances for club and country have also caught the attention of Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.

Lord Dobbs, who wrote House of Cards, said all dialogue was clear on the page and crossbencher Baroness Kidron, who directed the Bridget Jones sequel, suggested viewers should value «fine performance over fine diction.»

Beyond these, we also have David Oyelowo, Wes Bentley, William Devane, Topher Grace, David Gyasi, Collette Wolfe, Timothy Chalamet, and an exceptionally fine performance from Mackenzie Foy (who will forever be remembered as the «Twilight» child of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson).

For all the truly fine performances, Cooper's somber effort can't seem to define itself.

Perhaps as a made - for TV movie, Home of the Brave would have been considered solid fare, maybe even supporting enough fine performances by the cast to earn a few choice Emmy nominations.

As the matriarch, Hortense, and her daughter, Solange, Nathalie Baye and Laura Smet (Baye's real - life daughter) contribute fine performances.