Sentences with phrase «rich performances by»

The emotionally rich performances by Fanning and Englert (the daughter of director Jane Campion in her first significant screen role) root the film.

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And while Canada - wide median incomes were up by an inflation - adjusted 3.5 per cent over that time, the performance was heavily influenced by oil - rich provinces such as Alberta and Saskatchewan — a trend that's since hit a wall, thanks to the collapse of global oil prices.

The rich succession of the country's national styles, including Moorish, was celebrated in Budapest with a renowned exposition a century ago, and is being recalled this year by the city's splendid exhibitions and performances in its «Farewell to the XXth Century.»

The event will include a welcome address by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, a specially commissioned poem read by Scotland's Makar, Jackie Kay, and live performances showcasing a cross-section of Scotland's rich musical talent.

Additionally, TRUEDARK allows new products to be created without compromising taste, color, performance or quality by delivering rich cocoa taste and bold brown color naturally.

There is a significant difference between being flithy rich / poor AND being taken as mugs by the corrupt board and inept manager with their empty promises, not strengthening the club season after season, 4th place finishes, woeful performances etc etc despite paying over the odds in ticket costs.

Members of Local 81380, which represents lab workers at the plant, voted 61 - 0 for the pact, which was spearheaded by closed - door negotiations between the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and officials of Momentive Performance Materials, which is owned by several hedge funds that include some of the richest men in the U.S.

This may have been an optimal design for predator - rich environments in which survival was a minute - by - minute question, but it is not a good adaptation for modern environments in which the stressors can be job performance reviews.

The multimedia exhibition runs at London's Rochelle School until 23 November, and there is a live performance by Doves frontman Jimi Goodwin and the Bird Effect Ensemble at London's Rich Mix on 10 November.

The quality of colostrum — the nutrient - rich milk newborn dairy calves first drink from their mothers — can be predicted by the mother's previous lactation performance and weather, according to new research from the NH Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of New Hampshire.

Intake of flavonoid - rich wine, tea, and chocolate by elderly men and women is associated with better cognitive test performance.

This stimulus forces to body to grow more muscle mass in a process called sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, which increases muscle size by engorging the muscles with fluids rich with the energy required to improve performance.

This riding boot by Johnston & Murphy executes a flawless performance of equestrian elegance in rich leather, with a slight high - low shaft, and a burnished almond toe.

Rich in its love of surfing but curiously short on such footage, well - meaning directorial debut by producer Robert Mickelson is boosted by winning performances, but ultimately about as memorable as a day of 3 - 4 foot swells.

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

It's a must - see for Daniel Day - Lewis» charismatic, subtly shaded performance as Lincoln — and an even richer one by Tommy Lee Jones — but a colleague of mine at The Post has a point in describing the film derived from Tony Kushner's wonky script as «C - SPAN with whiskers.»

This 1995 catalog of performances by various artists may represent the historical development of a rich and enthralling art form, but it's presented in such a clinical way it might as well be a list on a chalkboard.

He was particularly inspired by Nick Nolte's performance in the TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man; little did Koteas know that two decades later, he would be starring opposite Nolte in The Thin Red Line.

Based on the journalist Lynn Barber's memoir of her sentimental education at the hand of an older charmer and scripted by Nick Hornby, this soft - edged exercise in nostalgia is worth seeing for its rich array of sharply drawn characters led by Carey Mulligan, who received a deserved Oscar nomination for her sweet, smart, sexy central performance.

Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi) would also earn his sole (to date) nomination for his rich performance as Philadelphia police detective John Book, who gets put in charge of an investigation of a murder in the bathroom of a bus terminal witness by a young Amish boy, Samuel (Haas, Boys).

It features a terrific performance by Jennifer Lawrence as a heroine Sturges would have loved, the Long Island woman who invented the Miracle Mop and became rich selling it on the then - new able channel QVC.

Rating: 8/10 — a recreation of the kidnapping in 1973 of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and the subsequent attempts by his mother, Gail (Williams), to persuade his grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom, something the then world's richest man refuses to do; Scott's best movie in years, All the Money in the World is a taut, compelling thriller that tells its story with ruthless expediency and features yet another commanding performance from Williams, something that takes the spotlight away from the presence of Christopher Plummer (who's good but not great), and which serves as a reminder that money isn't the central concern here, but a mother's unwavering love for her child.

As Jess said when she dropped her verdict in Cannes, «It's an offbeat, fun and frequently very funny film, lifted out of disposability by some wonderfully rich production design, music and photography, and by the cherishable performances of the leads.»

The richest of these performances is given by a tall, dark and handsomely stubbled Danish actor named Claes Bang.

Directed by Bong Joon - ho (The Host), and based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, the film is rich in atmosphere and features powerful performances from some very fine actors, including Chris Evans, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris and Jamie Bell.

But it remains the richer of his two Oscar - nominated turns by far, and I suspect it will serve as a useful reminder: The best performances often defy consensus as well as convention, especially when an actor's darkest hour is too easily mistaken for his finest.

Performance Jack Black, Bernie In Richard Linklater's hilarious fact - based docudrama, Jack Black plays an accomplished mortician so beloved by the citizens of a Texas small town that nobody seems to want to admit he's almost certainly guilty of murdering a hateful, extraordinarily rich old woman (Shirley MacLaine) who monopolizes his time and energy — or, for that matter, concede that he's gay.

Others I'm especially glad to have caught up with: three early Frank Capra movies featuring dynamite performances by Barbara Stanwyck, Ladies of Leisure, The Miracle Womanand Forbidden; G.W. Pabst's Kameradschaft; Hitchcock's Rich and Strange and Number Seventeen; Rouben Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight; Carol Reed's The Way Ahead; Andre De Toth's Dark Waters; Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle; David Lean's Hobson's Choice; Michael Reeves's The Sorcerers; Gordon Hessler's Scream and Scream Again; Roy Ward Baker's (and Brian Clemens's) Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde.

At the center of it all is Michelle Williams, giving a masterful performance as a woman who refuses to be manipulated by rich men, smug men, media men, policemen, and even the one man who supposed to be on her side, Fletcher Chase, an ex-CIA agent Getty assigns to get his grandson back... as cheaply as possible.

Directed by TV veteran Bharat Nalluri (The Crow: Salvation, Tsunami: The Aftermath), it's an impressively mounted romance that is bolstered by a subtle, but still quite strong performance from McDormand, who knows well enough that it's her normalcy that separates her from the eccentric oddballs that inhabit the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

But there's no mistaking the authority of Bogart's self - assured performance as Marlowe, who gets involved with the search for a missing Irishman after being hired by the rich and mysterious General Sternwood.

Though I still think the Academy dropped the ball in some areas (Best Actress, in particular, could have been a far richer and more diverse race had the likes of Sally Hawkins and Kristin Scott Thomas been invited), it's true that, while 2008 hasn't been as rewarding for auteur works as some previous years, we've seen a lot of films either wholly constructed around their performances («The Wrestler» being a prime example) or saved by them (for my money, Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt are the most focused elements of «Rachel Getting Married»).

Powered by an unusually rich, twisty script by Aaron Guzikowski («Contraband») and career - best performances from Hugh Jackman -LSB-...]

Best performance by an actor in a small role: Jim Beaver (as a tough - minded businessman in «Crimson Peak»), Ben Fransham (as a Nosferatu look - alike in «What We Do in the Shadows»), Haley Joel Osment (as a rich man's spoiled and useless son in «Entourage»), Dakin Matthews (as the judge in «Bridge of Spies») and B.D. Wong (as the perverse scientist in «Jurassic World»).

Indeed, Caleb's uber - rich, genius boss, Nathan (played by Oscar Isaac, in what may be the best performance of the year to date), did design a humanoid robot with all of the traits that Caleb most desires through the secret collection of data from Caleb's computers, cell phones, etc. (there was a special emphasis put upon Caleb's «porn profile» when it came to designing the robot, Ava's, face).

Plenty of bad performances are saved by editing, and you have to wonder if the opposite happened here: maybe there's a richer Clooney performance left in the cutting room.

And yet, his performance as a young soldier driven to escape certain death by any means necessary (including sacrificing some of his humanity) is rich and affecting.

The Florida Project is an effortlessly crushing drama masquerading as a casual slice of life movie, one rich with layers and multiple meaning, made sublime by a trio of knock - out performances.

It's an offbeat, fun, and frequently very funny film, lifted out of disposability by some wonderfully rich production design, music cuts and photography, and by the cherishable performances of the leads.

Esther Iverem: Even if you want to avoid another movie obsessed with the tragedies of rich people, you will be drawn in by the exceptional performances in «The Tribes of Palos Verdes,» especially by newcomer Maika Monroe.

Pulling off such a rich, complex performance in the context of a spectacularly gross horror film — even one directed by David Cronenberg — is more impressive still.

There's a strong story involving the relationship between two families who reach across the species divide, led by Caesar (Andy Serkis in a brilliant and rich motion capture performance), who is both husband and father to his family and benevolent leader of the simian tribe, and Jason Clarke as an engineer trying to repair an electrical damn to power the human reclamation of San Francisco.

As Jess said when she dropped her verdict in Cannes back in 2013, «It's an offbeat, fun and frequently very funny film, lifted out of disposability by some wonderfully rich production design, music and photography, and by the cherishable performances of the leads.»

August: Osage County is a film mostly defined by how rich the actor performances are in the key roles, and with a cast like this, it's hard to miss.

Improving school performance through academy and free schools status is important, but it will not be enough to close the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils in England's schools, according to a new collection of essays published by the think tank IPPR.

• there is no default assigned school (everyone must choose); • there is a common application; • there is rich, valid, and comparable information on school performance (including test results that incorporate academic growth); • school performance information is clearly presented (including support for less educated parents); and • there is an assignment algorithm that maximizes the preferences expressed by all parents and the resulting school assignment for all students.

Performance tasks in the Smarter Balanced assessment demand that students demonstrate their writing skills by crafting stories or essays in response to several rich sources, including texts from a variety of content areas.

Via NY Times by Motoko Rich Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced on Thursday that states could delay the use of test results in teacher - performance ratings by another year, an acknowledgment, in effect, of the enormous pressures mounting on the nation's teachers because of new academic standards and more rigorous standardized testing.

One of the most unique and exotic high - performance machines on the road today, Dodge is honoring the Viper's rich, colorful and exceptional performance heritage on and off the track by paying tribute to some of the most iconic Vipers in its history.

The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), organizer of the world's most famous sports car race, has recognized Corvette's rich racing heritage by naming the section of the Le Mans circuit between Virage Du Pont and Maison Blanche in honor of America's iconic performance car.