Sentences with phrase «gave worthy performances»

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The guy has produced performances worthy of him to be called to the first team bench... that's gives you another reason why that deluded and arrogant man of a coach should live cos he is just making life hard for every true fan as well as top class players

Meyer would not be cheap, given his performances for a UEFA Champions League level side, but could prove a worthy successor to David Silva in the coming years.

Very few of the players can look back at the game and feel like they gave everything and put in a performance worthy of the Arsenal shirt.

We will give our all to deliver a Milan - worthy performance.»

Gwyneth Paltrow gives an Oscar worthy performance, and the rest of the cast are solid too.

I think that what Phillip Seymour Hoffman did in Capote was just amazing and award worthy, I just think he could do that role over and over again and give a great performance like that a million times, or even better than that one: Devil, Savages for example.

Garfield is a stand - out as Nash, giving a performance that is worthy of Oscar consideration, having to keep us on his side, knowing he has a conscience about his actions, and yet his desire to please his family and continue to pay for the basic necessities in their lives drives him to continue, even in the face of seeing so many other families go down in despair.

The action takes place during the making of a small - budget potboiler film, HOME FOR PURIM, that no one is taking seriously, not even the folks making it, until an internet rumor surfaces that one of the cast is giving an Oscar - worthy performance.

Hawkins gives a master class, Oscar worthy performance, the career defining work that can end an awards race before it's even begun.

One almost wishes the film had been released three months before, because this is definitely an effort worthy of Oscar consideration, and not just for the star and director, but also Albert Finney (Looker, Big Fish) in the best performance he's given in almost two decades.

Underrated: Allison Janney gives an award - worthy performance as Harding's mother, LaVona Golden.

We've got much more piss your pants one liners and forth wall breaking tomfoolery from Wade, it's sweet sensitive and extremely emotional in parts (not since the finale of T2 have I sobbed so much), the OTT action and gore makes a hatchet fight in a Butcher shop look clean in comparison with moments to make hardcore Gore - Geeks give a huge hooray, the cringe worthy «oh no he didn't» moments are rife, there's a touching subplot about what it really means to be Family and also we are treated to an array of colorful supporting characters including an excellent turn from Josh Brolin as futuristic super soldier «Cable», a wonderful performance from upcoming young talented star Julian Dennison (hunt for the wilder people), the obligatory Hugh Jackman cameo and a mega hard Super Villain who makes his previous onscreen incarnation seem like Vinny Jones in a giant penis suit... Oh wait!

Actor Paul Dano's directorial debut «Wildlife» (Metascore: 83) is a»60s dysfunctional family tale preserved in amber and observed by the 14 - year - old son (Australian discovery Ed Oxenbould) of unhappy, unfulfilled parents (Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan, who gives an awards - worthy performance).

Denzel Washington gives an Oscar - worthy performance as a pilot that is struggling with alcohol and drugs.

Here's why we should start paying attention to them: in their short existence they've given Best Film to a truly outstanding picture every single time: Chile's Gloria (2014) an amazing study of a divorcee rebuilding her romantic life with an Oscar worthy performance by Paulina García (we nominated her here); Argentina's rowdy, funny, Oscar nominated and deeply pleasurable anthology Wild Tales (2015); and Colombia's mystical wonder Embrace of the Serpent (2015) which you already know we're wild about.

Michael Keaton gives an Oscar worthy performance as well as Edward Norton for Best Supporting Actor.

Gary Oldman gives an Oscar - worthy performance as Winston Churchill, thrust into the prime minister's office in 1940 as the Nazis storm across Europe with Britain in their sights.

Despite the issues I have with some of the plot points and characters, there's more than enough development to give the sequences stakes, and the production and performance of the mixes is iPod - worthy stuff.

But here's hoping if that happens, it delivers, and gives Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones the awards attention that has escape their worthy performances in the past.

As Bluto, the hard drinking leader of Delta House that would go on to become a United States Senator, Belushi gave a performance worthy of an Oscar nomination.

Evan Rachel Wood gave a searing performance in «Thirteen» but the Academy did not notice, nor did they find Jennifer Connelly worthy of a nomination in «House of Sand and Fog.»

In my opinion he gave an Oscar worthy performance in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker.

The cast is supremely talented with Cranston giving an award worthy performance alongside his supporting cast featuring Diane Kruger, John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, and many more who lend their talents to create a truly exciting, tension - filled thriller that's as unforgiving as it is beautiful.

July 25, 2015 • Swedish songwriter Kristian Matsson gave a performance worthy of his stage name on Friday at Newport.

Many admired Adam Sandler in «Punch Drunk Love» and felt him worthy, while Greg Kinnear gave a career - defining performance as Bob Crane in «Auto Focus.»

Debra Winger gives a chilling, award - worthy performance in this haunting drama of a woman nobody notices until it's too late.

Equal praise goes to the cast: Moore and Quaid give Oscar - worthy performances.

Should win: Sally Hawkins gave two brilliant Oscar - worthy performances in 2017 that were vastly different and outstanding.

The underrated Sam Neill also gives an award - worthy performance that'll sadly be looked over.

That's particularly true of Eisenberg who gives a nuanced, award - worthy performance as Zuckerberg.

Vince's brother Johnny «Drama» (Kevin Dillon), by all accounts a terrible - to - mediocre actor, gave an award - worthy performance in his brother's directorial debut (The movie is informative in confirming that one award - giving body is for sale).

In these Adam Sandler movies, the native New Yorker gives dozens of worthy performances, from slapstick to dramatic

Already this year, he gave an award worthy performance as Lyndon B. Johnson in HBO's All the Way, and he makes taking down drug cartels in The Infiltrator look like he's been doing it his whole life.

For all its split - open abdomens and bloody hatchetry, it was leavened by a down - to - earth performance from Kurt Russell, and a sweet melancholy one - awards worthy if they gave out Oscars to cannibalism grindhouse pictures - from Richard Jenkins.

Simmons gives an intense performance worthy of an Oscar nod, in what may be his best in a long and distinguished career as a character actor.

Although the material in Mr. Church wasn't really worthy of it, Eddie Murphy gave a solid performance in his first dramatic lead role, bringing nuance to his portrayal of an alcoholic cook who helps out a sick mother and her teenage daughter.

The Irish - Ethiopian actor gives an Oscar - worthy performance in Jeff Nichols» film about the effects of Jim Crow racism on a mixed - race couple in 1950s Virginia

Sheryl Lee gives an award - worthy performance as the demonized Laura Palmer, while there's great (if even too brief) turns from the likes of Kyle MacLachlan (briefly reprising his role as agent Dale Cooper ---- who, quite frankly, the film needed more of), Harry Dean Stanton, crooner Chris Isaak, Gary Bullock and a twitchy Kiefer Sutherland.

Leba Hertz: Annette Bening once again gives an Oscar worthy performance in this intriguing period piece,

She gives her own Oscar worthy performance as Chubbuck.

«The Express» (2008)-- As Ernie Davis's Syracuse University football coach, Ben Schwartzwalder, Quaid gave a nomination worthy performance in the overlooked powerhouse sports drama.

It's been done a zillion times, but this movie is different from ALL of the other kidnap movies because the director made his kidnap movie so brilliantly artistic, the scriptwriter for this movie gave it nifty diaglogue, the two leading actors and the black wife all gave Oscar - worthy performance, and the cinematography is great too.

Nods for the mock ceremony, which is meant to «reward» the worst movies and performances of a given year, were announced on Monday — but somehow, a few worthy titles escaped the Razzie radar.

Brie Larson also gave an Oscar - worthy performance as Joy.

Saorise gives a Golden Globe - worthy performance as she portrays a high - school senior struggling to assert her independence in front of her friends, peers and her deeply opinionated and strong - willed mom.

Cianfrance leaves that question to our imagination, and Dean and Cindy's cold civility — as well as the riveting, award - worthy performances of Gosling and Williams — gives Valentine its withering power.

The big TDI engine gives the Q7 performance figures worthy of a sports car.

The self - aggrandizing speeches given at art openings and galas — often cringe - worthy performances in themselves — have become another of Ms. Fraser's specialties.