Sentences with phrase «grand performance»

This dramatic downturn happens despite grand performances by Tom Wilkinson as Benjamin Franklin (the most interesting person in the first five hours), Stephen Dillane as Thomas Jefferson and Linney's continued drive to give Abigail relevance.

Art enthusiasts (novice to aficionados) enjoy witnessing grand performance art in progress at the annual Old Town Temecula Street Painting Festival (June 21-22-23).

Don't get me wrong, the car's turbo powertrain and livelier handling make for a very nice, affordable package, but the name Nismo conjures up thoughts of grand performance cars — you know, the 370Z, GT - R, and even Juke Nismo RS models — and the SR Turbo didn't quite deliver on that premise.

El Niño's Long - Awaited Grand Performance Is on Its Way to California: After a crushingly dry February, it looks as if early to mid-March is likely to bring California some of the serious moisture it needs from the 2015 - 16 El Niño event, and perhaps some unwanted flooding and mudslides...

Sean Penn has a kind of grand performance, but the movie is very weird and doesn't quite work.

Another bright spot is «Heights,» a good movie powered by a grand performance by Glenn Close who plays a Shakespearean actress and master teacher dealing with the vagaries of professional and private life.

Next the Marching Soldiers give a grand performance before it's off to the library to find out what tale the Paramithi Storybook holds today.

Lena Headey gives a grand performance as the creator and, later, the denouncer of this rumor.

It's an odd thing to hear Winston Churchill laugh, but laugh he does — in the face of his political opposition, the weight of history and Adolf Hitler — in «Darkest Hour,» a historical drama that is a showcase for a grand performance by Gary Oldman.

Final Verdict: Beautifully stunning and held together by grand performances, but the main message is lost in the edit.

Despite Day - Lewis» approach, his grand performance never feels overpracticed or embalmed; and despite Plummer's lack of prep time, he imbues his J. Paul Getty with a level of polish, malice, and animal greed that suggests he's been mulling him over for years.

The grand performances and crowd - pleasing qualities have already eclipsed all else for most audiences, and it's unfathomable that that will change before January 10.

Miller gets to play the flashy role of a flamboyantly gay character inhabiting a time period where this was not a popular thing (the film appears to take place in Pittsburgh sometime in the 80's, though a specific time is never hammered down), and handles it well, but it's Watson in particular who needed a grand performance in his first major role of her post Potter career.