Sentences with phrase «movie features a performance»

It's a serious and seriously good movie featuring a performance by Jack Nicholson as a retired old man that would be a worthy career capper if he decided never to work again.

Not exact matches

This year's field of Best Picture nominees features eight movies with widely variant box office performances, from 20th Century Fox's (FOX) The Martian «s leading $ 228 million in domestic gross to Room, which barely cracked $ 12.5 million in ticket sales.

Some of them are simply movies featuring live performances, such as the long forgotten Urgh!

A technologically stunning movie that furthers the genre and features crowd - pleasing performances to go with the frequent scenes of gunplay and violence.

(In addition to Douglas» consistently riveting turn as the moral protagonist, Paths of Glory features stirring supporting work from, among others, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, and, delivering the movie's most entertaining performance, Joseph Turkel.)

Features a standout central performance by newcomer Boyd Holbrook («The Host»), but suffers from predictable plotting and shallow characterizations that keep the movie from ever transcending the obvious.

It also marked at the time of it's release the only movie that featured a diverse cast of talent including some that were newcomers like Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg who turned out astounding performances.

From the many live performances to the slew of Eighties tunes, the movie featured various numbers on a nearly constant basis.

With only two battle sequences, much of the movie is devoted to astoundingly dull sequences featuring the soap opera-esque machinations of the various characters (something that's reflected in the exceedingly broad performances).

It's actually a surprisingly accurate representation of the movie: it's about women beating each other down while men watch on passively, and it features very strong performances, but the strongest of them come from the comparatively less well known names.

Unfortunately, Susanna White's direction is so stale and unengaging that their performances are squandered on a final product more befitting of a TV movie than a feature film.

Blu - ray Highlight: In addition to an excellent six - part documentary that runs the entire gamut of production — from location shooting in Romania, to Nicolas Cage's (creepy) performance capture of the Ghost Rider, to special effects and more — the Blu - ray also includes a feature similar to Warner Bros.» Maximum Movie Mode where directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor dissect the film (sometimes pausing it to discuss certain scenes in more detail) with the help of behind - the - scenes footage.

The rest of the movie is great, too, featuring an ace comic performance from Gerwig, a romantic Manhattan in color complement to the black - and - white version in Frances, and loads of quotable lines.

Rating: 8/10 — featuring Pacino's most effective and rewarding screen performance for some time, Paterno rightly keeps its focus on its leading character while also exposing the hypocrisy and deception going on around him; an intelligent but modest drama that packs an emotional wallop when it needs to, it's also a movie that successfully avoids being exploitative or insensitive.

Rating: 8/10 — a recreation of the kidnapping in 1973 of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and the subsequent attempts by his mother, Gail (Williams), to persuade his grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom, something the then world's richest man refuses to do; Scott's best movie in years, All the Money in the World is a taut, compelling thriller that tells its story with ruthless expediency and features yet another commanding performance from Williams, something that takes the spotlight away from the presence of Christopher Plummer (who's good but not great), and which serves as a reminder that money isn't the central concern here, but a mother's unwavering love for her child.

And it features one the great movie performances by Frances McDormand, who seldom gives performances that are anything else.

The movie also features some great supporting performances — especially Kyle Chandler in a short but effective cameo — but without Teller and Woodley in the lead roles, it wouldn't be quite so, well, spectacular.

Jed is known for writing the cult movie «Slashed» which features acting performances from Chris Martin and Johnny Buckland from Coldplay, Moby, Ben Kweller, ASH, James Nesbitt and a host of other celebrity cameos.

This movie features one of Jack Black's best performances and is one of the weirdest (in a good way) movies about Small Town America in awhile.

A real movie lover's movie, The Aviator sees Martin Scorsese bring a touch of panache to this Howard Hughes biopic, which features probably Leonardo DiCaprio's best performance to date (though he does look rather too young for most of the film) and a host of other fine performances, none finer than Cate Blanchett, who is mesmerising as Katherine Hepburn (though never quite so mesmerising as Hepburn herself was).

The movie features that excellent Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, who gave a performance to treasure in Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai (2002)-- but is wasted here in a minor, bad guy role.

John Huston's The Misfits features the last performances of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, and their costar Montgomery Clift would only appear in three more movies before dying at forty - five.

The movie is also stacked with a phenomenal supporting cast — in addition to Mulligan, it features a stellar supporting performance from Albert Brooks as a pragmatic sociopath, and phenomenal smaller turns from Bryan Cranston and Christina Hendricks.

Good trailer for a good movie featuring two EXCELLENT performances.

The A.V. Club caught a special sneak preview screening of Split at Fantastic Fest, where we described as a «Hitchcockian take on a Silence Of The Lambs serial - killer movie,» featuring Shyamalan's signature plot twists and turns — including one at the end that had our audience gasping and applauding — and anchored by McAvoy's virtuosic, if showy, performance as Kevin / Dennis / Hedwig / et al..

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I found Barry Levinson's much - maligned Sphere to be an intelligent, superior science fiction / horror movie, featuring excellent performances by the likes of Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone and taut, focused direction.

Featuring a rare bad performance from Jennifer Jason Leigh, Amityville: The Awakening can't decide whether it wants to be an earnest - but - clichéd haunted house movie or a Scream - style meta dissection of same and doesn't seem to particularly give a shit about either one of its competing storylines.

The movie features big performances (Gyllenhaal oscillates between squeaky Willy Wonka to drunken Steve Irwin, while Swinton, in braces and a blonde bob, is a twisted delight), big action (including a thrilling chase sequence through Seoul set to mariachi music), and some big pigs (that look like inflated Fiona the baby hippopotamuses).

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

The Snowpiercer movie features a galaxy of Hollywood stars that included Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, and the late John Hurt, who all received rave reviews for their performances.

Life Lessons features a young Steve Buscemi in one of his first big movie roles as performance artist Gregory Stark, who performs comic monologues (written by Buscemi himself) on abandoned subway tracks, falling far short of Dobie's definition of art, which is «you make art because you have to,»cause you got no choice.»

This is a movie that doesn't side - step its themes, and is a textured film that features nuanced performances by its cast — notably Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson who play well with each other.

Starring Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring 2), Eddie Marsan (The World's End), Jessica Biel (Hitchcock), Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), the movie features fine performances, high production value, and a production design that plunges us effectively both into the late»50s era of the story and the murky world of the characters» fragile psyches.

Matt writes: With New Year's Eve quickly approaching, movie buffs are already setting their DVRs to record annual broadcasts of Michael Curtiz's 1942 classic, «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» featuring its Oscar - winning performance from James Cagney as George M. Cohan.

With the heroine of Themiscyra matching the performance of a movie that featured nearly all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe roster, it's little wonder that Warner Bros. is doing its best to make «Wonder Woman» a core element of the DC Extended Universe going forward.

The movie also features a strong performance from Alicia Vikander.

They find a wax model of Sir Lancelot (Dan Stevens) that actually thinks it's on a quest to find the Holy Grail and return it to Camelot (His attempt to find that castle leads to the sole scene in the movie that is genuinely funny, featuring a pair of cameos from actors interrupted in their performance of a Lerner and Loewe musical).

The movie features a stunning performance from Adam Sandler, one which could throw him in the mix this coming awards season.

Others I'm especially glad to have caught up with: three early Frank Capra movies featuring dynamite performances by Barbara Stanwyck, Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Womanand Forbidden; G.W. Pabst's Kameradschaft; Hitchcock's Rich and Strange and Number Seventeen; Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight; Carol Reed's The Way Ahead; Andre De Toth's Dark Waters; Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle; David Lean's Hobson's Choice; Michael Reeves's The Sorcerers; Gordon Hessler's Scream and Scream Again; Roy Ward Baker's (and Brian Clemens's) Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde.

Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature «The Good Dinosaur» — Spot «Inside Out» — Joy «The Peanuts Movie» — Charlie Brown «The Peanuts Movie» — Snoopy

«Sully» may not have enough narrative meat to warrant a feature - length movie, but it's such a fascinating story that it survives on the sheer awe factor and a solid, workmanlike performance by Hanks.

Loosely based on the lives of real outlaws, the movie also features a standout performance by Strother Martin.

Franco is garnering Oscar buzz for his performance as Wiseau, a singularly strange individual who somehow or other was able to arrange financing for his feature film The Room, a movie so bad it went on to become a cult sensation.

But to skip Creed on that basis is a mistake, for the rest of its two + hours are so great, so tautly filmed and featuring such honest, intelligent performances that it becomes a genuinely excellent movie that happens to be about boxing.

This year, we look forward to a sampling of some mighty powerful female driven movies, each of which features an A-list cast and an exceptionally strong performance by the leading actress (es).

And the movie features one of the great dog performances of the decade.

Best Film: A Most Violent Year Best Director: Clint Eastwood — American Sniper Best Actor (TIE): Oscar Isaac — A Most Violent Year; Michael Keaton — Birdman Best Actress: Julianne Moore — Still Alice Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton — Birdman Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain — A Most Violent Year Best Original Screenplay: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller — The Lego Movie Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson — Inherent Vice Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2 Breakthrough Performance: Jack O'Connell — Starred Up & Unbroken Best Directorial Debut: Gillian Robespierre — Obvious Child Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Tales Best Documentary: Life Itself William K. Everson Film History Award: Scott Eyman Best Ensemble: Fury Spotlight Award: Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring in — Top Five NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Rosewater NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Selma

The movie features a plethora of praiseworthy performances, especially Oscar - nominees Michael Keaton, Emma Stone and Edward Norton.

But even a minor Woody Allen movie features its fair share of memorable moments and fine performances.