Sentences with phrase «tour de force performance»

Light Sleeper (1992) In Light Sleeper, one of Schrader's very best «man in a room» films, Willem Dafoe gives an emotional tour de force performance as John LeTour, a world - weary New York drug dealer who spends his nights making deliveries to his high - end clients and journaling in his notebook.

Two - time Academy Award ® - winner Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront, The Godfather), Academy Award ® - winner Faye Dunaway (Network) and Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean, Blow) deliver tour de force performances in this critically acclaimed romantic comedy.

While James Cagney and Doris Day both give tour de force performances, it's a career best for Day.

Collette gives an absolute tour de force performance of a woman who slowly becomes unhinged.

Ultimately, though, it is very much Oldman's film, thanks to a restrained tour de force performance.

The British actor's tour de force performance anchors this daring, riveting drama that takes place entirely inside a vehicle driving down the highway at night

But the choices Johnson and Hamill make from there lead to a signature tour de force performance, easily Hamill's best of the entire series.

With a more modern rewrite from Travis Fine, who also directs, the film transcends its emotionally manipulative, with Cumming's tour de force performance as its pulsing heart.

Wonder is a perfect compliment to his breakout, tour de force performance in Room, and even the oddly endearing The Book of Henry.

The Way, Way Back is an instant classic, from its sunny disposition to Sam Rockwell's tour de force performance of irresponsibility that he actually stands to recover from without actively compromising his personality.

After her tour de force performance for the junior national team, Parker arrived on Tennessee's campus to begin her life as a college athlete.

Vomiting is a «tour de force performance,» particularly when sparked by powerful emotions: «It's really your inner digestive tract sacrificing itself because it would like to have this energy from this food.

Robert Duvall gives a tour de force performance as a zealous Pentecostal preacher hiding from his past while resurrecting the spirit of his adopted Louisiana bayou town.

Melissa Leo received an Academy Award ®, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award ®, and a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for her tour de force performance in THE FIGHTER.

The San Diego Film Critics Society Award, Online Film & Television Association Award and North Texas Film Critics Association Award for her tour de force performance in Quentin Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT, in which she plays the female lead, Daisy Domergue.

«Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts lead a standout cast» — Claudia Puig, USA TODAY «Meryl Streep delivers a brilliant, tour de force performance.»

This summer, she played a serviceable straight woman against Amy Schumer's typhoon of dysfunction in Trainwreck, but she's been earning plaudits for her tour de force performance in Lenny Abrahamson's Room.

But Jeff's story merely begins with the bombing, and via a tour de force performance from Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger tackles the fallout from Jeff's injury and the personal toll that being acclaimed as a citywide «hero» takes on him, his family, and his on - again / off - again girlfriend.

Woody Allen's latest, set in in the Coney Island of his youth, tees up Kate Winslet to delivers a tour de force performance as a 1950's housewife who cheats on her carousel - operator husband (Jim Belushi).

Headlining this is obviously Jackman himself in a tour de force performance, singing and dancing away.

There's not a false note in the entire picture, much of its dramatic weight a result of Oscar Isaac's tour de force performance.

Cumming gives a tour de force performance as a gay man battling for custody of his adopted son in «Any Day Now.»

Led by Beltoft's tour de force performance, Bang's Silent Nights is an emotionally powerful film that asks for us to empathize with and not judge others.

And Andy Serkis is giving a tour de force performance.

The movie also stars Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda, whom her co-stars say gives a tour de force performance despite her small amount of screen time.

It features a tour de force performance by Paulina García, who is in literally every single scene.

Meanwhile, Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) could, for once, justify use of the phrase «tour de force performance» and will likely be a shoo - in.

This is his show, and his tour de force performance is what gives the movie all the bite it needs.

Moss was the front - runner in the category for her tour de force performance as the subjugated Offred in the dystopian thriller.

This psychological thriller marks a return to form for M. Night Shyamalan, featuring a tour de force performance from James McAvoy as a kidnapper suffering from multiple personality disorder.

Edgerton is coming off Black Mass, while Negga starred in 12 Years A Slave and World War Z. Shannon starred for Nichols in a tour de force performance in Take Shelter, and most recently starred in 99 Homes.

But even as Iron Man fulfills its genre obligations, it transcends them, thanks to lively direction by Favreau and, especially, the tour de force performance by Downey, who cements the comeback he's been building in such films as Zodiac, A Scanner Darkly, and (especially) as the bumbling hero of the criminally neglected Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Eastwood's film is dark and brutal, leavened by some deadpan comedy, a tour de force performance from Gene Hackman, and a sly encapsulation of the history of the Western genre, as seen through the eyes of a pulp writer played by Saul Rubinek.

First, let's get it out of the way... Colin Firth's best actor Oscar really should have been won for this tour de force performance.

Here she gives a tour de force performance that will no doubt touch the audience.

«Breaking Bad» actor gives a tour de force performance as middle - aged everyman who watches his life happen without him

Split is written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and is a tour de force performance from James McAvoy.

In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic deaths of her husband and young daughter.

Naomie was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA Award for her tour de force performance as the protagonist's mother, Paula.

Featuring a buzzed - about turn by Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) as the fiery Harding, a mustachioed Sebastian Stan as her impetuous ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, a tour de force performance from Allison Janney as her acid - tongued mother LaVona Golden, and an original screenplay by Steven Rogers, Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding's life and career in all of its unchecked — and checkered — glory.

Along with Slater's tour de force performance, the rest of the cast is aptly effective.

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a lively, sensational and dynamic film with exciting song and dance numbers and a tour de force performance by the high - pitched and energized James Cagney.

Moreover, she gives something bordering on a tour de force performance opposite Paul Giamatti in the new film version of Mordecai Richler's 1997 final novel, «Barney's Version.»

It's another tour de force performance for Gyllenhaal who continues to go full throttle with each movie he leads.

She gives yet another tour de force performance, keeping you glued to the various parts of the Molly Bloom saga.

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# 13 «MOON» Duncan Jones's feature debut sports a tour de force performance from Sam Rockwell and a sci - fi narrative that is remarkably relevant.

Coming a bit later in the month is the series premiere of Patrick Melrose, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (who also executive produces) as the title character, «who struggles to overcome the damage inflicted by a horribly abusive father and the mother who tacitly condoned his behavior,» making for what Showtime calls a tour de force performance — you can catch the series» debut episode on Saturday, May 12 at 9 p.m. ET.