Sentences with phrase «of bravura performance»

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More than half of Labour voters (56 per cent) are pleased with Mr Corbyn's performance while just 25 per cent believe shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was widely lauded for a bravura Commons speech backing military action against Islamic State in Syria, would make a good replacement, rising to 42 per cent among Conservative voters.

And through Will Patton's bravura performance, Sam becomes as much a center of the story as Dee who has the most to lose and proves there is always something worth fighting for.

Stunning visuals and a bravura performance from newcomer Suraj Sharma as the young protagonist make Life of Pi a quest destined to impress.

Christian Bale delivers a bravura performance as an unhinged Gulf War veteran leading his boyhood best friend (Freddy Rodriguez) astray during a drug - fueled foray into the seedier side of Los Angeles in this gritty drama.

Here's a masterwork of technical bravura, adorned with inspired ensemble performances and directed with astonishing empathy.

Between the prospect of a definitive ending, the looming fear of catastrophe, and the continually exceptional performances, it's bravura television that somehow follows the model of earlier seasons while subverting expectations.

This is a riveting film with a bravura performance by Cranston, who's been the signature television actor of the past decade.

It's fitting how A Most Wanted Man's final scene is its peak, Hoffman delivering another bravura performance to add to his roster of many.

Both of these films are driven by bravura, brilliant, show - stopping performances, as Ronan's is, as Sally Hawkins» is and of course, as Frances McDormand's is.

The Benefactor review: Richard Gere's bravura performance as an eccentric philanthropist on the edge is worth the price of admission, despite the film's prosaic...

But back to the play - Vaughan - Lawlor delivered a commanding and bravura performance with plenty of puffing, scrapping and yapping about The Avalanche's ski pants, the ladyboy and the Mousie.

Richard Gere delivers a bravura performance in his title role of a Duddy Kravitz - style hustler, especially in a wordless early sequence that speaks volumes about his character.

Partly due to the iconic nature of the story and partly due to Bullock's bravura performance, we do root for Ryan Stone.

A lushly produced epic about the harsh realities of creative expression, featuring bravura performances and Oscar - winning costume design and makeup, Topsy - Turvy is an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema's great artists.

It's also an unsurprisingly bravura showcase for Day - Lewis, who, in what will reportedly be his final screen performance, has left us with something rich, indelible and at times marvelously loathsome — a portrait of the artist as a fey, prickly, hyper - demanding middle - aged man.

It's lurid and warped and more than a little dodgy, but it comes off thanks to the bravura performance — or performances — of James McAvoy, who throws himself into the role — or roles — with an admirable mix of skill and abandon.

Roger is the sort of fast - talking hustler who ends his bravura performances with an ironic flourish: «Thank you, I love you people.»

It's a bit of a shame that it nearly overshadows Tilly's delightful ditz, another Oscar nominated performance that likely would have won were it not pitted against another bravura performance from the same film.

Testimony has one great dramatic center, some bravura Steadycam sequences, effective newsreel - styled black and white cinematography, and a greater diversity of music to offset a weak script, clumsy montages, and surprisingly banal performances from supporting players (except Ronald Pickup, who also played Nietzsche in Wagner).

There is a certain pleasure, to be sure, from watching McAvoy, who delivers a bravura performance — including a scene - stealing dance as Hedwig and an array of mannerisms, accents and vocal nuance — that is almost worth the price of admission.

In the impeccably casted Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Frances McDormand gives a bravura performance as a mother seeking answers to the unsolved rape and murder of her daughter.

Brian Hegeland) Tom Hardy gives a bravura double performance as Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the identical twin brothers who became the rulers of the London underworld at the height of the swinging»60s.

She gives a top - to - bottom bravura performance as a grieving mother antagonizing the town's cops until they find a lead on her daughter's killer, burying her pain under a thick mantle layer of pure rage.

Sterritt * Penn's bravura performance is the only reason to watch this wildly sentimental comedy - drama about a mentally retarded man trying to regain custody of his daughter after social workers decide she needs a better home.

With her booze - soaked, bravura performance in A Single Man and her upcoming turn as an Amanda Seyfried - obsessed wife in the «erotic thriller» Chloe, you may be feeling like you've been seeing a lot more of Julianne Moore these days.

He exudes the same charisma and sexual bravura that made him famous but without the least whiff of sex symbol status coming through in the performance.

Similarly, Sheen gives a wonderful performance as David Frost, in spite of being somewhat of a support act to Langella's bravura turn.

Although the film lacks an engaging narrative or structure and has none of the stunningly composed long takes and bravura performances found in 0.5 mm, Han Han's trademark scepticism and wry reserve still shine through in his first directorial effort.

Not only does he effortlessly juggle a wide canvas of characters and storylines, coax fine performances from his entire cast, and employ some bravura camera work, he shows an amazing eye for detail.

Directed by Paul McGuigan (of «Lucky Number Slevin,» which should have tipped me off a little) from a screen story and script by Max Landis (of whom it can be said, at the very least, that horror appreciation runs in his family, what with his father having made «An American Werewolf In London»), «Victor Frankenstein» is, despite bravura performances from committed young leads Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, all kinds of obnoxious and pointless.

With his bravura performance, Denzel Washington shifts the balance of Lorraine Hansberry's classic play, and he shifts it in the right direction

Margot Robbie in a bravura, kick ass performance plays Tonya Harding the figure skater best known for maybe engineering the bashing in of her nemesis» Nancy Kerrigan's knee.

In After Whistler (2010), one of the most haunting works in the show, Hodgkin offers a bravura painting performance.

In a bravura performance, Shultz articulated the rationales for a carbon tax (and against cap / trade), including cap / trade's price volatility and vulnerability to market manipulation, a carbon tax's straightforwardness, and the success (and revenue - neutrality) of British Columbia's carbon tax, as well as the general power of pricing and the insurance value of a carbon tax.

Readers will remember the winner of the first award was Gavin Schmidt of Real Climate, following his bravura performance following the release of the Climategate emails.