Sentences with phrase «quietly powerful performance»

«David Strathairn delivers a quietly powerful performance supported by a magnificent ensemble cast in an impressive feature debut which its writer - director calls «a human tapestry.

And yet, even with Nicole Kidman turning in a lovely, quietly powerful performance as Bell, even with a bevy of solid supporting performances from the likes of James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis, Jay Abdo, David Calder and Jenny Agutter, even with Peter Zeitlinger's (Into the Inferno) stunning cinematography, Queen of the Desert still ends up as nothing more than a colossally head - scratching disappointment.

Sciamma, thanks to a quietly powerful performance from Toure, represents more than just the bittersweet romance and nostalgia generally associated with the coming of age film.

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At 2 1/2 hours, Aquarius is about a half - hour too long for the story it tells, yet it feels like a privilege to be in the presence of such a powerful character and such a quietly commanding performance.

As with «The Crucible,» Day - Lewis» big explosion — this time into outright stark - raving, animalistic rage, drooling and towering over Eli while pushing at him to tease him — wouldn't count for much if not for the slow - burn of the rest of the performance, with the actor's gradual shift from at least somewhat human to All - Powerful American Businessman as a Monster shown by his body going from upright to crooked, his face from quietly hateful to anything but.

Anchored by Keener's understated, psychologically acute performance, director Mark Jackson's spare, quietly powerful sophomore feature demonstrates an impressive -LSB-...]