Sentences with phrase «much better debut»

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Someone should be getting sacked for such stupidity Imagine coutinho going for 145 Sanchez for 30 We always get robbed I was at Emirates for his debut in the pre season friendly So much optimism going around we were gonna build team like promised to compete with the best

He had a fascinating debut season at Barcelona, meshing with his teammates much better than did the one - and - done (but far more talented) Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

I am not saying that the Arsenal and Chile international star Alexis Sanchez is nailed on to have a second season with his new club that is as good or even better than his debut campaign in the Premier League, but I do think that it is very doubtful that his standards will slip that much.

positives (+) + though bellerin had a bad game he held his own for such a high profile game to make a debut start + wenger sub'd early taking off ozil and arteta early enough and the bleeding stopped + with the way we played it could have been a LOT worse than 2 - 0 + szczesny is still pretty good in goals though the defense left him exposed a lot + a much needed rude awakening to the squad as the season begins to take shape + nothing is decided still everything to play for and 4 trophies to challenge for, same as before kick - off

I scored a couple of points on my Formula 2 debut, but I came away from the weekend feeling that it could have been so much better, and knowing that we have work to do before the next round in Baku.

He did look a bit better after the break but it was hardly a great debut and will not do his confidence much good.

The 24 year - old is set for his debut today with the Cherries against West Brom, and it will be good to see him getting some much needed first - team action, and we will of course be monitoring his fitness as the season goes on.

When it comes to a postseason debut, it doesn't get much better than what Hu did at the North Coast Section Div.

«But with Marcos Alonso playing in the left wing - back position and having a very good debut season under Antonio Conte last year, I doubt Danny Rose would tickle Chelsea as much as Manchester United.»

After an entire debut season battling a groin problem, Vermaelen had a much more meaningful contribution to the squad in his second campaign, but after a good start, the Belgian had a drop in form and saw very little playing time in the last few months.

Thanks to a partnership with Manchester City (the Catalans are now owned by the City Football Group and by Pep Guardiola's brother Pere), Girona were able to put together a very strong squad for their debut season in La Liga, and the Blanquivermell seem to have a much better group of players than the recent promoted clubs.

Add to that the boom in Chinese renewable energy and next year's debut of an economywide cap - and - trade program, and China has become a much - needed good - news story here.

Lifetime's much anticipated Liz & Dick debuts November 25 and I can't think of a better way to enjoy my Thanksgiving time off then to watch a movie about one of Hollywood's most tumultuous and romantic relationships (If my math is right, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were married, divorced, and remarried).

To much anticipation, Kaia Gerber, Cindy Crawford's 16 - year - old daughter, made her runway debut at Calvin Klein, the latest in celebrity spawn to embark on a modeling career (though she's got pretty good genes, and an even better walk).

The resulting Wish I Was Here is a whole that is much better than the sum of its parts, but is ultimately successful and will likely stir many of the same emotions that his debut did.

Compares to the competition in much the same way «Tony Hawk» did at its debut - it offers a well - rounded experience based on a variety of challenges, rather than what amounts to just another racing game.

Jacki Weavers much anticipated debut Hollywood roll is unfortunately an underuse of her talents, but she does the best with what she's given.

That's a title that pretty much gives you everything you need to know about his feature debut, but even still he's a fresh director with a lot of talent in front of the lens as well, so there is potential here.

How much better can a debut feature realistically get, and why discredit one of the greatest films ever made about race relations by attributing it to Humpty Dumpty?

For their cinematic debut, the creative talent behind the Muppets, including creator / producer Jim Henson and writers Jack Burns and Jerry Juhl, dropped any formulas associated with the Muppets except their well - established and much - appreciated personalities.

Though the film debuted to not terrible reviews, there also wasn't much buzz around Clint Eastwood getting another Best Director nomination, let alone the movie earning a Best Picture nod.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

Faces become clouds that become ripples of water that pool back into mutating images, and there's an agility to The Forbidden Room that marks it with a resplendency sometimes lacking in Maddin's work (2011's Keyhole felt very much like an item plucked from the dusty recesses of the director's brain, a realm that's been mined to better effect ever since his 1988 debut Tales from the Gimli Hospital).

The film will be debuting at Cannes in just a matter of weeks with Cotillard very much in the running for the Best Actress award there and we anxiously await word on the film leading up to its premiere.

Brian Taylor, one half of the filmmaking team Neveldine and Taylor (best known for the Crank movies), makes his solo debut with Mom and Dad, a twisted, firecracker of a movie that doesn't really have much purpose, but it doesn't really need one.

Jon Stewart, the legendary host of your favourite American news satire television program The Daily Show, is on this week's podcast to chat about his directorial debut, Rosewater, as well as The Winslow Boy, John Oliver, and much more besides.

The living members of that group of actors have not been in the spotlight much lately and those born after the debut season's episodes aired (a demographic which includes folks turning 28 this summer) may well be scratching their heads while trying to place some of those names.

As a result, I've been very eager to see what Ford would do next and although his follow - up isn't quite as good as his debut, there's still much to recommend.

When George Clooney made his directorial debut in 2002 with the off - beat Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and followed it up with the superb McCarthyism drama Good Night and Good Luck it seemed that he had just as much talent behind the camera as he did in front of it.

The To Do List makes for a crassly confident debut, skewering expectations with a javelin and Carey's film has so much fun with 90s nostalgia that it will appeal to those who were teenagers then, as well as those who are in their teens (and twenties) now.

Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) review: Eva Husson delivers a well directed, well presented, and sure to be much talked about debut feature.

Individual scenes play deftly enough; the director, Dominic Cooke, is a theater veteran making his feature debut, and he coaxes as much emotional truth out of this clenched, overdetermined scenario as possible (as well as a certain degree of cringe - inducing comedy).

Slash Film claims «Infinitely Polar Bear» marks Mark Ruffalo's best performance yet and Variety praises Josh Wiggins» feature debut, writing, «More sensitive than sensational, [Kat] Candler's debut doesn't add much in the way of insight to the juvenile delinquency genre, but boasts a stunning breakthrough performance from newcomer Josh Wiggins as the troublemaker in question.»

Most people won't get why the name Riley Stearns has my spider sense tingling because pretty much no one saw his excellent cult debut Faults, starring a never better Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Stearns» real life wife).

A better Alex Cox film for Criterion Collection enshrinement than his dismal 1987 dud Walker (reviewed here), this debut feature from the radical filmmaker became an immediate cult hit but also the high point of a career that failed to distinguish itself much after the one - two punch of this and 1986's Sid & Nancy.

Others, though, are unlikely to fare much better, given that this unflinching debut feature from Russ Harbaugh delivers something rarely seen in American movies: a warts - and - all examination of extended grief.

That speaks to the film's charms, for which I believe director Miguel Arteta (Youth in Revolt, The Good Girl) deserves as much credit for as feature debut - making writer Phil Johnston.

I honestly didn't anticipate the Best Director award for well - regarded Iranian photographer - turned - filmmaker Shirin Neshat (for her debut feature «Women Without Men»), not least because it was one of the Competition titles I missed and I didn't hear much talk about it on the Lido.

Check out the details of those stories as well as the plan for Ellen Page's directorial debut, the latest on Laika's «ParaNorman» follow - up, «The Boxtrolls,» and much more in your weekly Movie News Cheat Sheet.

Join us next weekend for the much anticipated / much - feared debut of Disney's John Carter, as well as the opening of the Elizabeth Olsen real - time thriller Silent House and the Eddie Murphy comedy A Thousand Words.

Aaron Sorkin talks a good game, so it should come as no surprise that his directorial debut — surprisingly cinematic for someone so voluble, in which Jessica Chastain plays self - made gambling madam Molly Bloom, who built a multi-million-dollar poker empire that managed to attract a lot of unwanted attention (much of it on account of her memoir, «Molly's Game»)-- amounts to a series of mile - a-minute monologues, stacked back - to - back for the better part of 140 minutes.

In an explosive weekend at the specialty box office, Paul Thomas Anderson's «The Master» broke the record for the best limited debut of all time (topping «Moonrise Kingdom»), while Nicholas Jarecki's «Arbitrage» managed some excellent numbers on a much wider screen count.

We will get a much better idea of what to expect when the DBS Superleggera makes its debut later in the summer.

Hyundai confirms it will unveil its much hyped and much anticipated Kona small CUV in South Korea on June 13, well ahead of its European debut at the Frankfurt International Auto Show in September.

The i8 still looks much the same as when it debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2013, which is a very, very good thing.

The Colorado debuted to much acclaim for the 2015 model year, earning honors as Motor Trend's Truck of the Year and Cars.com's Best Pickup Truck of 2015.

Much maligned nowadays, the PT Cruiser was incredibly popular and well - received when it first debuted in 2000.

When the Lexus IS debuted for the 2013 model year, it was a sporty sedan that sold much better than even Lexus had expected.

This 3.6 - liter, though, should be good enough for the needs of most buyers, thanks to its punchy 333hp output, and the throttle response is also much sharper on this engine than it was on the 3.6 - liter six - cylinder that debuted with the Cadillac ATS in 2013.

Though DaimlerChrysler insists that it's a concept car, there's a good chance that the sales success of the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky is pushing the company toward producing a vehicle very much like its Dodge Demon, which will debut in the 77th International Motor Show in Geneva in March.