Sentences with phrase «last twenty»

But as Dan Willingham has pointed out, the «stage theory» approach to learning has two major problems: «First, data from the last twenty years or so make development look like it's continuous, rather than occurring in discrete stages.

In fact, because of D.C.'s work over the last twenty years and its strong leadership today, it could become the nation's most important city for systemic reform.

Support Others and Read (SOAR), which occurs every other day for the last twenty minutes of school and alternates with an advisory period that happens on opposite days.

She told me she didn't want to read the last twenty pages or so because she didn't want it to end.

Over the last twenty years or so, successive British governments of different political orientations have made educational reform a priority.

This may be why the U.S. has seen significant achievement growth for its lowest - performing students over the last twenty years (especially in fourth and eighth grades, and particularly in math), but minimal gains for its top students.

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

For the rest of us, the growing popularity of interactive whiteboards — often mistakenly lumped under the label «smart boards,» although Smart is a specific brand name — are one of the best things to happen to classroom technology in the last twenty years.

In the last twenty years clubs» community trusts and foundations have developed way beyond providing ad hoc football coaching sessions.

This is one of the core findings of Hirsch's impressive body of research these last twenty - five years.

For the last twenty years, along with colleagues all around the world, we have been working on methods for solving these problems and have contributed to creative advances in both arenas.

It is unlikely, for example, that any politician, policymaker, or education secretary of the last twenty years has had a greater effect on what happens in reform - minded classrooms than Doug Lemov of Uncommon Schools.

scenes may have done more to harm comedy than anything else in the last twenty years), and there's even a sweet old grandma who does inappropriate things.

Bottom Line: If you've seen a political thriller in the last twenty years, you've probably already seen most of what «The Kingdom» has to offer, and the subject matter is at least midlly skeevy... but it'll most likely still be better than «Stealth.»

The last twenty - five years have been hit or miss, and nothing he's done — not even Blue Jasmine, the most emotionally resonant and honest of his recent films — has mattered the way his vintage films do.

by Walter Chaw Packed to the gills with what ails Czech life, Jan Hrebejk's Up and Down (Horem pádem) is a roundelay of social dysfunction, encompassing in 108 frantic minutes what feels like everything that's gone wrong with the Republic in the last twenty years.

For the film itself, an unquestionable success: it birthed a new franchise (sequel «The Matrix Reloaded» took over $ 700 million), and is one of the most influential films of the last twenty years.

In fact the last twenty minutes that take place in the killer's lair, which are traditionally the creepy scenes in a film like this, were met with outright belly - laughs in the screening I attended.

Unfortunately all the exposition comes in the last twenty minutes or so, and not only does this feel awkward, but the backstory's a little hokey.

The more I learn about West End productions from the last twenty years, the longer the list of productions I wish I'd seen becomes: Ben Whishaw as -LSB-...]

Marty may be one of the few people who would consider this a delicacy, spending his last twenty dollars to revel in the starchy goodness with ecstatic joy (he joins Adele Exarchopoulos from Blue is the Warmest Color in the pantheon of cinema pasta consumers).

J.A. Bayona's «The Orphanage» is one of the best horror films of the last twenty years, and I'm a fan of his tsunami drama «The Impossible» as well, despite the controversy.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) is easily one of the best Hollywood blockbusters of the last twenty years.

The last twenty minutes or so feels rather flaccid and never manages to match the tension and excitement that Craven gave us earlier.

As a sociologist, intentional or not, he is absolutely brilliant, and just on the strength of his Rocky and Rambo pictures, he's managed as good a diary of the fears and hopes of the last twenty years as any other body of work from any other single artist.

Malin Akerman gives one of the worst performances I can think of in a major studio film in the last twenty years.

It's a slow burn of a buddy cop thriller that sticks to the most basic of action movie clichés, entirely ignoring the CGI and overzealous plotting of the last twenty years of big - budget cinema.

Mike Leigh's film Mr. Turner centers on the last twenty - five years of the life of the acclaimed 19th century English landscape painter, J.M.W. Turner.

Director Noah Baumbach has released ten films in the last twenty years.

Today's reporters were the frozen Tuffcub, the icy Aran, and a nicely chilled Teflon, here's what you missed in the last twenty - four hours.

Ken Loach) Cast: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott, Brian O'Byrne, Jim Norton Not every Ken Loach film has premiered at Cannes, but in the last twenty - five years, it's been very rare for them to go anywhere else.

Micromachines can not be compared with anything on the market at the moment and unless you have been a gamer for the last twenty years, you will be quite impressed by this fun little title.

The boys aren't bad either, and, in addition to Phoenix, it's exhilarating to recognise, in various disguises, hairdos and toupees, actors that have shaped both American independent cinema, Hollywood and / or cable television (The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) for the last twenty years: Owen Wilson offers an understated performance as a former saxophone player who has to fake his death; the always impeccable Martin Donovan is a lawyer for the Golden Fang (he's also, by the way, Japonica's father, which serves him right); Benicio del Toro shines as the man passing as «Doc's lawyer»; Josh Brolin drew a lot of kudos for his performance as Doc's nemesis, an LAPD detective nicknamed Bigfoot with the bad habit of kicking people's door and dreams of making it to the big screen; Martin Short; Eric Roberts, Michael Kenneth Williams etc...

Anderson is separately interviewed for the last twenty minutes or so, and there's not much to see here beyond his late -»90s grunge - hangover haircut.

This year's Oscar race is not different from most in the last twenty years.

Tom Hardy, in particular, nails his role, and besides the last twenty minutes or so of the second act it never feels its length.

One of the most striking horror characters of the last twenty years is no doubt the evil Pyramid Head from the Silent...

Filmmakers from Mexico have been creating movies since very early in the history of the medium, but the last twenty years have seen an explosion of filmmaking talent from Mexico.

For the last twenty years, Affleck has consistently turned heads with sometimes subtle, sometimes vociferous performances in films that include: «To Die For,» «Good Will Hunting,» «Gerry,» «Gone Baby Gone,» «The Killer Inside Me,» «Out of the Furnance,» and his career - best, «The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford» — for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Supporting Actor (2007).

When I was about 10 years old, I probably would have written something similar to the things that transpire here, but shouldn't we expect more from Besson, the man that crafted The Professional and La Femme Nikita, two of the finest action films of the last twenty years?

Since the Pixar revolution of the last twenty years, the majority of American animated films that reach the silver screen are born from computers, relentlessly perfecting technique and smoothing out edges.

Although the Farrelly brothers have only been making major motion pictures for the last twenty years, they've already left quite an impact on pop culture.

by Walter Chaw 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike's costume - period retro - cross-cultural updating of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (and more horizontal homage to obvious antecedents by countrymen Kurosawa, Kobayashi, and Chushingura), initially seems a surprise choice for someone who's made his name (80 + times in the last twenty years) with transgressive, flamboyantly outré Yakuza and horror pictures.

Following an incident in a gym that nearly leaves him in the ground, and various other changes in personal circumstances, Renton returns from Amsterdam, where he has been residing for the last twenty years, to his homeland in Edinburgh.

The most important thing you will see occurs in the last twenty seconds.

(and more horizontal homage to obvious antecedents by countrymen Kurosawa, Kobayashi, and Chushingura), initially seems a surprise choice for someone who's made his name (80 + times in the last twenty years) with transgressive, flamboyantly outré Yakuza and horror pictures.

In the last twenty - eight years or so, I've only completed two full - sized games on PC — Grim Fandango and Star Control II.

No big deal: it was just one of the funniest movies of the last twenty years, and had a cast that would cost something like fifty million to reassemble if hired at their current marketable rates.

Jason Bourne 5 July 29th The Bourne franchise is one of the best modern action properties of the last twenty years (The Bourne Legacy not included).

On top of that, the last twenty minutes or so is completely pointless: instead of stopping at a high point in this action - adventure film, the filmmakers decide to let the action subside (giving me another reason to check my watch) and drag out the trappings of a sentimental ending.