Sentences with phrase «twitchy performance»

Bill looks sort of like a cousin of Ewan Bremmer, and his twitchy performance creates genuine discomfort — which is of course the entire point.

Dehaan winces and whines through Deans hipster lingo, delivering a mesmerising, twitchy performance that somehow still gets overshadowed by Pattinsons quiet background presence.

Not exact matches

Charlie's brother (a character with no correlative in real life) Donald (Cage again, in the finest twin performance since Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers) is cocksure and woman-wise to Charlie's twitchy self - loathing in a way that reminds of the swinger / nebbish iteration of the Jekyll / Hyde interplay.

She gives an almost comic performance, alternating between twitchy Kristen Wiig — like dismissals and a furious thousand - yard stare that burns a hole through the lens.

Nothing in the movie embodies this uneasy tension more than Gosling, whose performance as the formidably intimacy - averse Lars (who literally screams when touched by the supremely patient physician / psychologist played by Patricia Clarkson) is one - half thrift - shop geek joke and one - half twitchy study in terrified child - man.

A capable dramatic actor, he is supposed to be broadly comedic here, like a verbal Mr. Bean, but comes up short with a twitchy, unappealing performance you don't enjoy as the common thread.

Directed by Ben and Josh Safdie, the film was a highlight of the festival, with our own A.A. Dowd declaring Pattinson's performance as a twitchy bank robber attempting to engineer his brother's release from police custody the most deserving for the Main Competition's best actor prize.

Gary Oldman and Paddy Considine are the go - to guys when it comes to twitchy, nervy performances, and they're ideally cast in Koldo Serras's dark, fish - out - of - water drama.

Sheryl Lee gives an award - worthy performance as the demonized Laura Palmer, while there's great (if even too brief) turns from the likes of Kyle MacLachlan (briefly reprising his role as agent Dale Cooper ---- who, quite frankly, the film needed more of), Harry Dean Stanton, crooner Chris Isaak, Gary Bullock and a twitchy Kiefer Sutherland.

The frazzled and twitchy traits come forth from committed performances especially from the three case subjects.

The film may bear little relation to Gerald Kersh's far nastier (and more grimly believable) source novel, but Jules Dassin's stark, unforgiving direction, Max Greene's oppressive monochrome cinematography and Richard Widmark's twitchy central performance give the movie a paranoid power all of its own.

Weiner compares it with the Mercedes - AMG GT, though «not as aggressive, twitchy, or up to its performance task, but it's very predictable and easy to drive fast.»

And finally there's the driving experience, which is made up of shocking straight - line performance and a cornering attitude that feels as high stakes as any hyperactive, twitchy «ordinary» supercar you care to name.

Infiniti has always marketed it as performance - minded, which, in 2003, meant twitchy steering and a very rough ride.

A 6 - speed manual and front - wheel drive provide the rest of the performance rush, along with a well - integrated driving personality without the twitchy manners of a WRX STI.

The live performance wasn't exactly 1:1 — no doubt, there's plenty of room for this kind of technology to grow, but it's hard to understate how bizarre it was to see the actress» twitchy eye movement, blinks, and general expressions show up on Senua with no apparent delay.

Its worth as a cultural and aesthetic object had been rendered moot, never mind that it turns out to be a divertingly goofy thriller with an animistic bent, moments of shivery and twitchy suspense and a solid lead performance from Mark Wahlberg.»