Sentences with phrase «flair for»

But Lawrence is a marquee name and an awards - campaigning pro with a flair for self - deprecating humor.

As personalities and agendas bounce against the walls and each other, Tarantino's flair for dialogue and violence takes center stage.

With bright, stylized animation that evokes the iconic illustrations, a flair for comedic timing, and an abundance of sincerity at its center, Horton proves that a short children's book can be presented properly on the big screen.

Representing both in their schemes is ritzy lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), who has a flair for (literally) dancing around the courtroom.

Fassbender is wild - eyed as the slave owner emasculated by his shrewish, controlling wife (Sarah Paulson), Cumberbatch is warm and paternal as the slightly - more - compassionate Ford, and Pauls Dano and Giamatti have a particular flair for playing despicable characters that they display here.

The former music video director has always seemed to have a flair for visual aesthetics but had appeared more concerned with the technique of his action pieces than in developing strong characterizations, and working with very little in the way of quality writing, he made pretty pictures that failed to really inspire since we didn't care for the characters enough.

Probably not, as Ferrell always showed a flair for comedy and seemed to put a great deal of energy into every role.

It's the only film Charles Laughton directed, which, on the evidence of this film, is a real shame, as he seemed to have a real flair for it.

Danny DeVito and Richard Dreyfuss starred as feuding aluminum siding salesman in 1963 Baltimore, and once again Levinson demonstrated his flair for capturing the vernacular of a particular species of American male, effusive about work, food and pop culture, clueless about the women around them.

Either way, his flair for the visual and knack for high - octane storytelling looks...

So she wrote an (allegedly humorous) essay about it, in the process discovering a flair for pointing out the idiotic.

A highly glamorised version of the life story of PT Barnum — the man who made the circus a lucrative business in America and had a unique flair for marketing — Jackman's pet project deserves to become a Christmas classic.

Peyton Reed (The Break - Up, Down with Love) continues his visually appealing flair for light comedies, particularly in the quirky romance department, and when the film works its best is in the more quaintly geeky moments involving Carl's love interest, Allison (Deschanel, The Happening), in her artsy new wave band and Carl's boss, Norman, and his exuberance for offbeat things, including a Harry Potter themed party.

It still could've tanked in the wrong hands, but John McTiernan always had a flair for unpretentious action flicks, and his slick, energetic direction sets the mayhem off perfectly.

But, in favor of his usual flair for innovation, Haneke presents a questionable alternative.

What most distinguishes Lexy are her flair for fashion and her penchant for journalism.

The talent has to rely primarily on sight gags, obviously, and Oram has a flair for presentation.

In The Apartment, of course, Fran makes her decision to be with Baxter on New Year's, while Joe Gillis decides to be with Norma Desmond that same hallowed night in Sunset Blvd. — and both moments, as they occur at the crux of historical and cultural demarcations, encompass Wilder's flair for emotions at crosscurrent, and the dark of a dying era with the light of possible futures.

Director Jake Schreier previously showed a flair for older interior lives with «Robot & Frank.»

Daniel Kasman presents a collage of images from Deep Red the illuminates Dario Argento's grandiose flair for the design and architecture of terror.

In this 1927 silent film, Fields» flair for visual and slapstick comedy is on display, but sorely missed is that unique voice which was so adept at conveying between - the - lines contempt, annoyance, sarcasm, and disgust.

Bateman is a peerless po - faced straight man and pulls splendidly eloquent faces as this fare unfolds, while Rachel McAdams displays a rarely used flair for silliness: the scene where they try to extract a bullet from Max's arm without throwing up is priceless.

Her previous two directorial stints, the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap and the smash hit, What Women Want, were very successful at the box office, and Meyers has shows a flair for handling crowd - pleasing comedy with relative comfort.

From its simple but effective prologue, a montage showing the daily routine of Irish ex-pat Michael MacCauley (Neeson), a married insurance agent with a ready - to - trade - houses wife (Elizabeth McGovern), a kid ready to enroll at pricey Syracuse U. and two mortgages, Collet - Serra («Orphan,» «The Shallows,» «Run All Night») demonstrates a spare storytelling style with a dazzling eye and a flair for cutting.

As the relentless champion - raiser who raised Jimmy from youth, William Fichtner continues to show a flair for playing loathsome characters, even with limited screentime.

By combining ambient sounds with tight melodic phrasing, she cuts to the dark core of the project, aligning beautifully with Glazer's flair for atmospherics.

It's charmingly nostalgic, and Nintendo has a real flair for firepower, despite its reputation as a family - friendly developer.

Co-writer and director Julian Richards clearly has a flair for the genre and it's hard not to commend him for trying something different, but the bottom line is that The Last Horror Movie ultimately feels like a decent short unnaturally stretched out to a feature.

Oyelowo, who has proven his dramatic chops with his work in «Selma» and «A United Kingdom,» among others, shows a flair for comedy.

(11/19) THE IMITATION GAME Another Brit blows our minds — Benedict Cumberbatch may be distantly related to his tragic character, theoretical mathematician Alan Turing who put his flair for numbers to good use in WWII by building on the work of Polish mathematicians to crack the Nazi Enigma Code!

He has a clear sensibility that's easy to get on board with, a mix of geeky obsessions, a flair for monster design and a strong visual eye, even if he needs more than that to make something that resonates.

The real star of the show is director Steven Soderbergh and his flair for cinematic experimentation.

That being said, director Kevin MacDonald definitely has a flair for the dramatic and a knack for keeping his audience perched on the edge of its seat, even if he tends to on distracting red herrings to achieve that cattle - prod, over-stimulation effect.

The stakes are high enough that I cared, the characters are funny enough that I want to see them again, there's an abundance of heart and a real flair for the absurd that bring a quirky script alive in ways I hadn't quite expected to see.

Joe shows a specific flair for psychological violence and torture, a useful asset for ensuring L's male clients pay their debts.

Slowly but surely, cinema and reality begin to blur for Jones, and Strickland — an up - and - comer with a flair for slow burns — traces his descent into madness.

Foreign title of the week is «Queen to Play» (Zeitgeist), with Sandrine Bonnaire finding a flair for chess with Kevin Kline as her gruff tutor.

The late sci - fi author's flair for fascinating, futuristic concepts led to I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Real Steel, and Twilight Zone and Star Trek episodes.

A rather lengthy action sequence in the fourth «Chapter» — each of which are named for a section from acting coach Gene Cousineau's (Henry Winker) self - penned class text («Make The Unsafe Choice»)-- showcases the series» flair for violence.

The film isn't for the squeamish, but Travis shows necessary restraint in not making this a gratuitous spectacle just because it's rated R. Yeah, it's violent, but understandably so and Travis has a flair for making what could have been standard action scenes fresh, which is only enhanced by the stellar 3D.

The third act plot turn which blights La Piscine is beautifully handled in A Bigger Splash, with the picture's operatic structure, along with Guadagnino's irrepressible flair for high melodrama, amplifying the sensory impact.

Margot Robbie was naturally in attendance at Chanel's Cruise Collection 2018/19 show in Paris on Thursday night, showing off her flair for fashion in a striking minidress.

But it's too early to write off Snyder just yet, because there's no question that his flair for the visual is a definite strong suit that could, when given the proper story around it, deliver a truly magnificent action - adventure film.

He does grandiose and epic like no one else, and has an undeniable flair for eliciting great performances.

Still, the leads remain masters at mining improvisational gold from even the thinnest material: Peele can register panic in a few hilariously shifty eye movements, and the motormouthed Key retains his flair for both the over-the-top pronouncement and the deadpan non sequitur («Wordness to the turdness,» he notes in a failed attempt at gangsta speak).

Wright's kinetic, one - of - a-kind flair for storytelling has made him one of our most influential and important contemporary directors, and well, let's just be honest.

Adroitly helmed by New Zealand director Taika Waititi, it's irreverently scripted by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, revealing Chris Hemsworth's surprising flair for physical comedy, making Thor more natural and appealing than he's been in the past.

Directing her first feature film, which she co-scripted with longtime comedy writer Neal Brennan («Chappelle's Show»), the stand - up comic shows a flair for absurd asides and — naturally — a penchant for the profane.

And yet her signature flair for diving into the most vulnerable parts of her strongest characters has turned this comedy - spy series into something entirely her own.

The Oscar - nominated actress, 27, flaunted her flair for fashion as she wore a white lace and black sheer Chanel dress, with matching black heels and clutch bag... read