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He is an Oscar nominee for supporting actor for his poignant performance as a motel manager.
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It's a stirring sequence that's heightened by Holbrook's engaging, downright poignant performance, with the film's compulsively watchable atmosphere perpetuated by the initial scenes set within the past - as Lawrence does a nice job of infusing such moments with a melodramatic and suitably old - fashioned feel that proves impossible to resist.
Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet delivers a fine performance, and is given the film's best line and most poignant moment seconds before the credits roll.
Oafish at times but ultimately just as trapped as his wife, his understated performance moved casually from funny to poignant.
A poignant meditation on art as well as a delightful female buddy comedy with sublime performances by its three female leads.
«BATTLE OF THE SEXES» (2017) Emma Stone delivers a terrific performance as Billie Jean King, and Carell's Bobby Riggs is quite the match, with a number of great lines and some poignant moments.
If there is a perceptible weakness to the film that may prevent it from ranking among Payne's best in the minds of many viewers, it comes primarily in the casting choices, as some of these actors are quite limited in their range, and when scenes call for poignant delivery, their performances can only meet them halfway.
Cast against type as a creative writing professor at a Pittsburgh college, Michael Douglas gives one of his funniest performances in this adaptation of writer Michael Chabon's poignant campus novel.
The films he made between these animated efforts — Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)-- were among his better works, as the former evinced a real sense of poignant feeling that sometimes gets lost in his penchant for irony and pastiche, while the latter was a marvelous screwball farce with a fantastic central performance by Ralph Fiennes.
Still, even without a commanding performance to hang its hat on, «Spotlight» manages to be every bit as powerful and poignant as its subject matter demands.
DVD Review by Kam Williams Gender Preference Biopic Features Eddie Redmayne's Oscar - Nominated Performance as Sex Change Pioneer In 2015, Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his poignant portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
As she begins to reconnect with her family — especially with daughter Julie (Mamie Gummer), whose current post-breakup rough patch helps bring Ricki back into her life — the character's mask gradually drifts away, and Streep allows moments of poignant authenticity to peak through: in an anguished phone call to current boyfriend / fellow guitarist Greg (Rick Springfield), in a private crying jag after an annihilating argument with Maureen, in a meltdown during a live performance in which Ricki exposes her regret and self - loathing to the public.
With credible camaraderie and poignant performances from its young leads, it's as much about growing up and the thrill of first - time film -...
The Danish Girl Film Review by Kam Williams Eddie Redmayne Delivers Another Oscar - Quality Performance as Sexual Preference Pioneer In 2015, Eddie Redmayne won the Best Actor Oscar for his poignant portrayal of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Riz Ahmed gives a poignant, career - making performance as Rick, Bloom's assistant, the only one who has anything resembling a moral compass.
Exploring how major art trends have reflected the reality increasingly appearing as media construct, the show presents a range of works from Alex Katz's striking realism and Eric Fischl's psychologically charged studies of a confused middle class to Cindy Sherman «s poignant self - portraits to Vanessa Beecroft's performances that question body ideals.
The interactions with the artworks are usually humorous, sometimes poignant and often deal with issues such as sexism, ageism, museum policy and the way we react to art, the nude, performance and even what is art?»
The Lone Wolf Recital Corps exhibition and performance was both powerful and poignant, enlivening the installation of artworks which also served as musical instruments by the late Terry Adkins.
From performance as a poignant gesture or a mirror of contemporary societal commonalities to grandiose filmic applications and animated fantasy worlds, these works are immersive and experiential and will take each viewer on a powerful emotional journey.
As a result, the work and the performance are poignant comments on the contradictions of China's modernization.
These materials are used to produce sculptures, installations and performances that provide a poignant and visceral comment on her country's attitudes towards death and the extreme violence perpetrated in areas such as Northern Mexico, where cartel wars and murders of women are endemic.
Hailed by The New York Times as «one of the most celebrated performance artists anywhere,» Ragnar Kjartansson brings his spellbinding, poignant, and frequently humourous works to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.