Sentences with phrase «poignant performances from»

With credible camaraderie and poignant performances from its young leads, it's as much about growing up and the thrill of first - time film -...

Grounded by heartbreakingly poignant performances from two of French cinema's most iconic actors, Amour contains none of the moralistic finger - wagging and gratuitous sadism that so many critics have found off - putting in the director's work.

We all loved «Enough Said,» which features a poignant performance from the late, great James Gandolfini.

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By turns bleak, funny, touching, sexy and poignant, with bursts of violence that rise like sudden geysers from a still pool, Out of Sight is chock - full of dead - on performances.

Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.

Oafish at times but ultimately just as trapped as his wife, his understated performance moved casually from funny to poignant.

The contrast between the incredibly physical presence of Ali and the emotional struggles that Stephanie faces when her physicality is taken away from her is poignant, and both actors deliver phenomenal performances.

It would be quite something for me to suggest this could be his best performance, and yet it well could be; it's difficult to imagine not just anyone being better in the role, but anyone else filling it at all, and Gleeson manages the impossible - being poignant from the off.

He takes care to view the story from the perspective of Molly and draws a poignant and powerful performance from the young May.

Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.

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.

With Oscar - nominated performances from McDormand and co-stars Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson, it's often funny and frequently poignant, even when it falters.

With terrific performances from McDormand and co-stars Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson, it's often funny but always poignant.

However, Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian said «it is often poignant and humorous but also placid and complacent, with performances bordering on the self - regarding and even faintly insufferable.»

Lauren Sivan and I talk the weekend's new movies — including a poignant final performance from the late, great James Gandolfini — on Studio 11 LA.

«The Spectacular Now» swaps storytelling truisms for the natural beat of life and thanks to outstanding performances from Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, that results in an exceptionally raw and poignant experience.

LUCKY features Harry Dean Stanton's final, and perhaps finest performance in a film that addresses the end of life issues for an atheist from a practical and philosophical point of view that is both wry and poignant..

Poignant performances by Barrymore and Collette help distract from some of the too - adorable, too - perfectly chaotic elements of their lives and relationships in this almost fairytale vision of London, but Miss You Already hits more than it misses.

Director Steven Spielberg squanders a poignant Melissa Mathison script and a game Mark Rylance motion - capture performance, delivering a movie that's far from terrible, but which does lumber along like a lost mid -»90s artifact, from the age of the bloated blockbuster.

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.

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.