Sentences with phrase «lovely performance»

It helps that Dahl Hansen turns in such a naturalistic and lovely performance as the youngster who has so smitten the douchey American.

I'm still shocked that not a single awards body back in 2007 recognized the subdued and lovely performances by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová in Once.

There can be something sweet and even radiant about Sonia's hopefulness (as in Brooke Smith's lovely performance in Louis Malle's film Vanya on 42nd Street); but there is certainly something deeply sad about her resignation to incomprehension, to the failure of understanding, on this side of the grave.

Robert Mulligan, who coaxed lovely performances out of his child actors in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird, here gets good work from twins Chris and Martin Udvarnoky (in their first — and final — screen appearances), with their characters involved in all manner of sordid activities that Scout, Jem and Dill doubtless couldn't even imagine.

You know what's coming next, even if Slade does not, which makes the moment at once profound and painful, a moment premised on Henderson's lovely performance throughout the film, Slade's closeness to the president — visibly and emotionally — and Lincoln's own gentle, sweet - natured respect when in Slade's proximity.

As his beard, (in a rather lovely performance) Keira Knightley even offers him a marriage of convenience despite the fact that he's gay.

B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories And Other Stories is largely read by Novak, but it plays with the use of other actors — it includes a really lovely performance from Lena Dunham as a sex robot (just... listen to it, it's very good), as well as turns from Jenna Fischer, Julianne Moore, Rainn Wilson and, of course, Novak's frequent collaborator Mindy Kaling (who's very funny).

It is easy to see why she won for Certified Copy, as she gives a modestly lovely performance speaking in both English and Italian.

Slumdog is a good film and an appealing film with some lovely performances but it's not a great film: it's too sentimental and predictable for that.

Wendy Hiller offers a lovely performance in a small role.

The actress — a relative neophyte in the movie world, though she's loaded with Emmys — gives a lovely performance in Nicole Holofcener «s film, and the movie has been doing remarkably well.

Paul Jesson gives a lovely performance as Turner's beloved elderly widowed father, who is content to live with him as his manservant and factotum, and has relapsed into what Turner shrewdly identifies as the false persona of a «dunce» — despite the fact that he taught Turner to read and write.

Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne, Scream 2) gives a lovely performance as her mother without ever turning her character into a monster.

He is nicely offset by a lovely performance from Paul Bettany as a man whose exterior warmth and avuncular qualities perhaps belie an unseen darkness inside.

Co-starring Cécile De France as his foster mother in a lovely performance.

What a lovely performance.

EXTRAS: Poor Rene Russo — as with the first film, the majority of her lovely performance as mother to the two warring Princes is relegated here to the deleted scenes.

As for Stallone, he walks these Philly steps again with the proud dignity of a lonely wounded bear — a lovely performance worthy of a few tears.

Nell Minow: Danielle MacDonald gives a lovely performance as rapper Killer P but even moreso as Patti, whether she is sometimes scared, sometimes discouraged, but always vulnerable, yearning, and funny.

It's a lovely performance, passionate and expressive.

Through this process, we get to know Jack's separated grandparents (Joan Allen and William H. Macy, both lending strong support) and Grandma's new boyfriend (Tom McCamus, in an understated, lovely performance).

What ultimately saves the dialogue, in my view, are the lovely performances Baumbach coaxes out of his actors, all of whom tend to treat the witticisms as material to play against rather than simply deliver.

It's terrific entertainment, with a lovely performance from Stallone, perhaps his best.

A sweet voice and lovely performance was also given by Haneefa Hassan as Bet, I think we can expect more from Haneefa in future productions.

At the closing ceremony, we were treated to a lovely performance by local Viennese performer who really showed us that acrobats and schema therapist have a lot in common - we both require a lot of flexibility!