Sentences with phrase «quality performances in a film»

Give some credit to the pair of leads here, as they both reached deep down for quality performances in a film that could not possibly have been easy to work with.

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Of course it would take more than a small independent film to truly set Washington apart from the pack, and many saw her performance in the 2001 romantic drama Save the Last Dance as one of the few redeeming qualities in the otherwise forgettable teen drama.

Having appeared in one film (1913's Shylock), in 1933 he began taking film roles to support his theatrical work; his subtle, forceful, witty performances redeemed poor movies and intensified high - quality work.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

For the fourth straight year, we have examined both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

For the sixth straight year, we have examined both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six - ish major studios and a few dozen of the larger «indie» distributors in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

For the seventh straight year, we have analyzed both the box office performance and overall film quality of the seven - ish major studios and a few dozen of the larger «indie» distributors in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of the past year.

It's essentially a things - that - go - bump - in - the - night - in - a-spooky-old-house film and it does deliver a few decent scares, although the frights diminish with time, as does the quality of Mirren's performance.

The highlight of You're Next is the quality physical performance by Sharni Vinson, who becomes the film's de facto heroine, exerting that sense of «I got this» cool that propelled Vin Diesel to stardom in his first take as Riddick in Pitch Black.

Quality music, especially live performances, pop - up in the perfect spots and really keep a fluid pace to the film.

However, it doesn't take long to accept him in the role, despite the physical differences and not altogether convincing aging (or lack thereof), as he delivers a quality performance that carries the film through some very dark patches.

On the surface is a film that shimmers in sunshine and fun; the photography draws the spectator into the beauty and holiday tranquillity of Pantelleria, and the energy and quality of the performances, particularly Ralph Fiennes» hurricane of exuberance, provide a crowd to gather around the pool with and to be entertained by; a crowd who can seduce and disgust with equal measure.

In his role, Bardem gives a terrific, organic performance, providing a much - needed intuitive quality to an overly - planned work; he received an Oscar nomination in addition to the film's nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film categorIn his role, Bardem gives a terrific, organic performance, providing a much - needed intuitive quality to an overly - planned work; he received an Oscar nomination in addition to the film's nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film categorin addition to the film's nomination in the Best Foreign Language Film categorin the Best Foreign Language Film category.

The problem with this approach is that not one of the film's observations is new, and its technique — in which artificial suspense is created by cross-cutting multiple story arcs in an attempt to disguise that each one is predictable as a metronome — undermines the quality of its performances.

In spite of the visual splendor Storaro provides, his images are, like Winslet's performance, inevitably hollow when taking into account the lack of quality every other facet of this film provides.

The only redeeming quality to the film (other than the aforementioned running time) comes from the quality performances by the lead actors, especially Peter O'Toole, who exudes devilish charm in one of his best performances in years.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a rather frustrating film to review as it's a piece of immense quality, boasting impeccable performances, a strong sense of tone and a stellar score, but, in the end, there's just no denying that this simply isn't a film for me.

Beirut is a higher quality film than the recent 7 Days in Entebbe, both in performance and delivery.

Perhaps with someone else at the helm Jersey Boys could have had the pop and crowd - pleasing pizzazz that the stage show is said to but the film turns out to have more in common with your dull, run - of - the - mill biopic than it does an energetic stage show, and without the quality performances that can at least make the former bearable on occasion.

And yet, for all of its wealth in terms of performances, cinematography, scoring, and period, the one inescapable quality lacking that keeps True Grit a good film with great moments, rather than a purely great one, is the muted emotional punch.

After decades of home video performance - film releases and docs of varying quality, this two - part, three and a half - hour film feels like a landmark, something that should be welcomed as warmly as the two Elvis books published in the 1990s by Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love.

Considering that it was shot in just over a fortnight with a novice writer / director at the helm makes Whiplash all the more amazing an achievement, proving yet again that throwing all the money in the world at a project counts for little or nothing if the writing and performances aren't up to scratch and this film oozes quality from the off.

That anxious, inexhaustible quality is nicely captured by Dan Stevens» central performance in this amiable, bluff, broadly drawn film.

What attracted critical minds like Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and others to Nicholas Ray and his oeuvre — bored stiff as they were by the risk - averse, respectable, and ultimately neutered «cinema of quality» — was the stamp of the personal and the element of danger they discerned in his films, whether that meant the improvisatory handling of actors with a touch deft enough to coax remarkable performances out of even non-professionals; the «superior clumsiness,» cited by Rivette in «Notes on a Revolution,» resulting in «a discontinuous, abrupt technique that refuses the conventions of classical editing and continuity»; or the purely visual flourishes Ray relished — ranging from the sweeping, vertiginous helicopter - mounted shots in They Live By Night to disorienting, subjective POV compositions like the «rolling camera» during a car crash halfway through On Dangerous Ground, its very title indicating the source of Ray's critical appeal.

Ryan Gosling has had a few really prolific years with a string of great performances in quality films like CRAZY STUPID LOVE, DRIVE and...

This is thanks to both the quality of the material and its telling; Nagy's script is perfectly pitched, as is Haynes masterful direction, but the real strength — and joy — of this film is found in its two lead performances.

While audiences remain divided on the quality of his later film work, he touched us deeply — and made us laugh hysterically — in films as diverse as The World According to Garp, Moscow on the Hudson, Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poets Society (his portrayal of Mr. Keating had an enormous influence on my own early teaching), The Fisher King, Mrs. Doubtfire and Good Will Hunting (for which he won an Oscar after 3 previous nominations), not to mention his multitude of stand - up comedy performances.

It's increasingly rare to see Bruce Willis act like a professional and give a quality performance regardless of the material (of his last 12 films, his only worthwhile work was in Looper and Moonrise Kingdom), but perhaps he'll show his...

From his work with filmmakers like David Cronenberg, David Michôd (The Rover), and Anton Corbijn (Life) to his most his recent film, The Lost City City of Z, Pattinson has been delivering quality performances in some high - quality movies.

So, it's unlikely that playing 29.97 fps games at 24 fps would make any difference to your gaming performance, and the 24 fps rate at which movies were filmed, for so long, give the cutscenes in PS2 games a slightly more «cinematic» quality, but that's a personal preference, not a general one.

With a particular emphasis on photography, but also including other forms of artistic expression such as painting, video, film, performance and installation art from the 1960s to the present day, Haunted is co-curated by Jennifer Blessing, Curator of Photography, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, both from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and reveals the extraordinary quality of the photographic and new media works in the Guggenheim Collections.

A casting director has to compulsorily take care of the performance quality of the cast in a film or in a theatre and also maintain a qualitative approach in the whole matter.