Sentences with phrase «heartfelt performances»

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is a sweet treat for Wii U owners to experience a world of fantastic battles, heartfelt performances, and great Japanese pop culture.

Instead Loving uses a pair of heartfelt performances to demonstrate what love actually is: trusting, patient, unflinching in the face of adversity.

Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis play the father and aunt, and both give strong and heartfelt performances.

Thankfully, both Chalamet and Hammer deliver such fine - tuned, heartfelt performances that we are mostly just swept up in their ardor.

Some of the best scenes are quiet moments with Jake and Lainey having a heart to heart — no punch lines, no over-the-top schmalz, just wonderfully heartfelt performances.

For their part, Jackman and Stewart give perhaps the most heartfelt performances that they're ever brought to an «X-Men» movie.

Two - time Academy Award nominee Laura Dern has touched many audiences and critics alike with her moving and heartfelt performances.

Which is a bit disappointing considering some of the cast gave some truly heartfelt performances.

Boasting Mullan at his magnetic, measured best as the afflicted aggressor, and Colman conveying both tenderness and toughness as the tortured target, the film rests on their portrayals, as Considine inspires his cast to haunting yet heartfelt performances.

A solid movie that will divide audiences, though Keitel, Caine and particularly Weisz are outstanding, each providing firm, heartfelt performances...

There's still a lot of fun in this movie, and most of that comes from the heartfelt performances from the cast.

Heartfelt performances by Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland add pathos to the proceedings.

John Turturro truly embraces his material he conceived with a heartfelt performance and solid direction.

Regina Casé gives a genuinely heartfelt performance that also helps to anchor the film in realism.

Joan probably remains the most opaque character in the film — The Squid and the Whale is in part about the children's re-discovering of their mother after all — but Linney puts in a heartfelt performance every bit as good as the one we witnessed in You Can Count on Me.

It's hard to believe that this is Corinealdi's first film role, as she gives a heartfelt performance as the resolute Ruby.

What I especially liked, was the heartfelt performance by Abigail Breslin.

Serkis delivers a brilliant, heartfelt performance that matches his iconic turn as Gollum, and while the visual effects didn't quite achieve the seamlessness they need, he ensures that we feel every emotional beat.

Braga has starred in several Brazilian films but City of God is likely her most well - known and heartfelt performance.

BwakawVeteran Filipino actor Eddie Garcia puts on a staggeringly heartfelt performance as Rene, an unimaginably (and hilarious) grumpy old man with a dream - crushing mean streak.

It's a heartfelt performance and shows a tenderness that exemplifies her range after playing a feral prisoner for Tarantino.

By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: Ever since Summit Entertainment screened Jonathan Levine's moving comedy «50/50» ahead of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I've been holding out hope that Joseph Gordon - Levitt could find his way into the Oscar race for his nuanced, heartfelt performance as a young man diagnosed with cancer.

Rather than laughing at Wiseau, through Franco's unexpectedly heartfelt performance the movie turns him into a heroic ideal of can - do spirit and believing in yourself.

It of course goes much like the first film does, with an ending that is a lot like the first, minus the excellent and heartfelt performance.

In a kooky yet vulnerable and heartfelt performance, Franco gets right at the heart of what makes Wiseau a true hero — his sheer willingness to try — and that is what makes «The Disaster Artist» work so well.

Voice acting is up to usual series standards as well, with Abubakar Salim (Black Mirror) giving a nuanced, heartfelt performance as Bayek.

Not exact matches

Arsenal star Jack Wilshere has spoken of his heartfelt love affair at Premier League giant Arsenal hours after a spirited performance for the North London club's 4 - 2 victory over Belarusian side BATE Borisov.

This is a heartfelt endeavor, given weight by Shimono's extraordinary performance, in which the actor uses the subtlest flicks of his weary brow to call forth torrents of sorrow and minefields of regret.

Almodovar takes in melodrama, humour, noir and fantasy with ease constructing a truly original, heartfelt and flawless work, including a sensational musical performance by Cruz midway through.

Singers often make good actors, but Strait's debut performance doesn't measure up to his heartfelt, down - home warbling.

Critic Consensus: Thanks to Al Pacino's stirring central performance - and excellent work from an esteemed supporting cast — Danny Collins manages to overcome its more predictable and heavy - handed moments to deliver a heartfelt tale of redemption.

Critics Consensus: Thanks to Al Pacino's stirring central performance - and excellent work from an esteemed supporting cast — Danny Collins manages to overcome its more predictable and heavy - handed moments to deliver a heartfelt tale of redemption.

James Gandolfini, in one of his final performances, is absolutely spectacular as the charming and heartfelt Albert, especially in the many scenes he shares with Julia Louis - Dreyfus» Eva.

Strong performances by many cast members and some heartfelt scenes (as when Bethany gets her first real look at the stump of her arm) help create genuine emotion in this story and a deeper appreciation for the impressive attitude of this young surfer.

Plaza doesn't stray too far from her brand — Tatiana is unsurprisingly droll and cutthroat — but the actress continues to prove that she's more than just her affectations, and her performance is backboned by a heartfelt riot of inner chaos and an uproarious talent for pratfalls (seriously, she has a gift).

The Sessions tells the remarkable, funny, heartfelt and optimistic story of California - based journalist and poet Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes, in an award - worthy performance), a man who lived most of his life in an iron lung after having survived a bout...

With echoes of her heartfelt, Oscar - nominated performance from M. Night Shyamalan's «The Sixth Sense,» the always - great Toni Collette does her best work in years as the matriarch of the Graham family in Ari Aster's Midnight hit.

«Brooklyn» takes top spot for Saoirse Ronan's luminous performance, John Crowley's sensitive direction and Nick Hornby's heartfelt...

Funny, subtle, surprisingly heartfelt, and indisputably brilliant, it features Gene Hackman's best performance since Unforgiven and is one of two films this year in which Gwyneth Paltrow proves herself to be an actress of depth and talent (the other is Shallow Hal).

General audiences won't get the chance to see Hong Chau's breakthrough performance in Alexander Payne's «Downsizing» until the film is released on Dec. 22, but film festival viewers have already been raving about her heartfelt comedic turn.

Instead, thanks to heartfelt direction from Destin Cretton as well as spectacular performances from the cast, it is exactly the opposite — a touching, genuine film that quietly leaves its mark in our hearts.

«Critics have hailed the film as hilarious and heartfelt with an iconic performance from James Franco.

A pretty standard «overcoming differences to find they have something in common» story made absolutely charming and heartfelt by Neil and Dennison's performances.

Chris Weitz's heartfelt drama aims for the poignancy of The Bicycle Thieves, but only Demian Bichir's tender performance stops it from feeling like a lecture on immigration issues.

To embody the emptiness, McCarthy is aided with three superb lead performances which are poignant and heartfelt but more importantly, realistic.

This one is tense, heartfelt, wise and weighty, driven by a revelatory lead performance and crafted by a director deeply invested in doing justice to his subject.

This hilarious, heartfelt and quirky film sits rather comfortably somewhere between Ghost World and the films of Todd Solondz, and features possibly the best performance I have yet to see this year (as of July 2005).

The ending fell flat but the rest of the movie was sharp, witty, endearing, and heartfelt with solid performances from the entire cast.

A shame, then, that for his one Oscar - nominated performance — for best supporting actor as the wary, heartfelt son of 1960s activists still on the run from the FBI in Running On Empty — he lost to Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda, the sort of dotty vaudeville turn (see also John Gielgud in Arthur) that can sometimes be the wild card in the supporting categories.

What You Need to Know: Judd Apatow is still producing like a madman these days — with the gangbusters performance of this year's «Bridesmaids» and the looming promise of this year's «Wanderlust» and «The Five - Year Engagement» — but he hasn't written and directed anything himself since 2009's ungainly but heartfelt «Funny People.»