Sentences with phrase «toward performance character»

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It's a rich, engrossing ensemble drama that reveals itself very slowly, is filled with multidimensional characters and multi-layered performances, and works toward an amazingly verisimilitude.

The Adventures of Tintin also offers some of the more effective usage of the motion - capture technique, which transfers an actor's performance upon an animated avatar, by bypassing the uncanny valley altogether and creating characters that are a hybrid of humans and artist Hergé's cartoonish designs (Only the hero and central villain weigh heavily toward the former).

The story is pretty standard stuff, and while Lily James» character is a complete nothing, her performance and chemistry with lead Ansel Elgort goes a long way toward making it palatable.

As Rosa, Alice Englert doesn't have as much character stuff to chew on as Fanning, but the actress also puts in a commanding performance that points toward a bright future.

Because her thinking man's Ilsa act in The Reader is at least conceptually riskier than her put - upon dishrag Debbie Downer in Revolutionary Road, we were that close to throwing her by the wayside in this category, especially because there's a clearly superior crypto - leading role in the mix (Rosemarie DeWitt, whose titular character in Rachel Getting Married has been shut out of a lot of races thus far, but we feel anyone who actually watches enough of the film to justify throwing their vote toward frontrunner Anne Hathaway should have no other choice but to recognize DeWitt's equally tricky, equally attention - stealing performance).

In No Small Change: Targeting Money Toward Student Performance, researchers analyze more than 100 variables before they grade states from A to F on four major categories: the rigor and clarity of the state's standards in core subjects; its efforts to improve teacher quality; its school climate as measured by absenteeism, school safety, parental involvement, character education, and other variables; and the extent to which it provides resources equitably.

It strikes a perfect balance between the performance character of Porsche's coupes and convertibles, the capability of the Cayenne, and fits in with the industry trend toward smaller SUVs.

Contributing to the Silvia's image of «speed and beauty» are its low, slanted nose with an advanced look, the tenacious - looking rear fenders expressing the stellar driving performance of this rear - wheel - drive car, the two character lines accentuated by the wedge shape and the unique panel treatment that wraps around the sides toward the rear.