Sentences with phrase «with commanding performances»

With commanding performances from Bijvoet, Minis and Perceval, a structure that is an exemplary study in economic pacing, and a story that has all the appeal of seductive myths, Borgman will end up as one of the most original and captivating dark stories to emerge this year.

With commanding performances by the two leads, solid musical numbers that set the tone for the real - life drama well, and Mangold's excellent ability to keep focus on what's really important, Walk the Line becomes a film that nearly all viewers will be able to relate to and enjoy, and not just fans of Johnny Cash and his music.

His stint with the Eagles proved very fruitful as he played a key role in keeping them in the Premier League with his commanding performances at the back, and it seems he'll have to produce a repeat performance for new boss Frank de Boer as he has struggled in the early stages of his time in charge at Selhurst Park.

In his absence, Ramsey has seen his central midfield role occupied by Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla with some commanding performances.

Edmonton - Gold Bar MLA Hugh MacDonald showed his experience with a commanding performance, abandoning his usual conspiracy theory - driven Question Period style for a more dignified pose.

Mertesacker wound back the clock with a commanding performance and Bellerin continues to get better and better.

Yet it's still important that she ends the term with a commanding performance at PMQs, enough to rally her troops and send them back to their seats with some festive cheer.

Not exact matches

But she came back to work this July — as the second in command at Sara Lee, where she's been charged with improving the company's mediocre performance.

Playing to an ambivalent crowd at Seattle's Crocodile Café earlier this spring, they threw down a commanding performance that had the room buzzing with the excitement of discovery by night's end.

The few men and women who wear stars on their shoulders are those who have demonstrated stellar performance time after time: commanding platoons, managing staff, planning strategic and tactical missions, working with outside agencies, displaying knowledge of other fields and specialties, surviving the realities of combat training and deployments.

Szczesny — 8 A very commanding performance by him with only one real mistake very late on where he misjudged a corner and left the goal wide open — fortunately City didn't capitalise.

I know that was a while ago but look what we've done to him along with the likes of perez, Joel Campbell, etc Wish we had got Loftus cheek on loan for the season commanding performance against Liverpool even though they lost.

The Spain international has been on the fringes of the Red Devils» first - team this year, despite impressing with a series of commanding performances in 2016/17.

Steven Gerrard — 8 Another commanding performance from midfield, in which he also got himself on the score sheet with a long range effort placed into the bottom corner of the Norwich goal.

Ronaldo has experienced a minor drop in performance levels since the start of the season, and any move for Neymar is likely to coincide with the exit of the Portugal international, who commands the highest wage package at the European champions.

Goals from Moussa Sissoko and Dele Alli capped a commanding first half performance, but we were left stunned at the final whistle after the visitors hit back in the second half with a brace from Andre Ayew and the winner from Angelo Ogbonna.

Without trying to offend anyone involved with Blackpool, Sunday's clash with the Tangerines on Merseyside is by far the Reds» easiest assignment of the season ad so anything less than a commanding performance along with all three points would be a disastrous result.

A major highlight of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Night that many look forward to is the performance of the reigning VGMA Artiste of the year; With awe inspiring performances from Stonebwoy, Sarkodie and many others in years past, will Joe Mettle, the first ever gospel artiste to win that category be able to command the angels to come down?

Speaking further with the Commanders who included the Brigade Commander, 5 Brigade and the Commanding Officer 234 Battalion, Buratai assured that the military and the security agencies would continue to improve their performances.

Steiner said he made his decision after working out a deal with Michael Bloomberg in which Black agreed to work with a second - in - command, Shael Polakow - Suransky, the former deputy chancellor for performance and accountability.

If repeated consistently with emotion, mental images are accepted by your subconscious as commands and this helps with changing habits, behavior and performance.

British TV director Michael Pearce makes a commanding feature debut with this psychological drama - thriller that puts an eerily windswept island location to fine use and features an excellent lead performance from Jessie Buckley, whose open, intelligent face transmits thought and feeling with piercing clarity.

The performances are equally pleasing, with Chadwick Boseman delivering a commanding turn as T'Challa and Michael B. Jordan bringing a wickedly offbeat sense of menace to Killmonger.

His commanding but off - kilter presence and quirky charm have easily provided Cranston with the necessary range to essay such diverse roles, and the longtime actor can always be counted on to inject a healthy dose of personality into his performances, no matter how large or small the role may be.

Cooper had a busy 2011, first playing Howard Stark (also known as Tony Stark's father) in Captain America: The First Avenger; followed by a commanding performance in the dual roles of Uday Hussein and his look - a-like in The Devil's Double; and finally, a smaller part as famed photographer Milton H. Greene in My Week With Marilyn.

It isn't a fantastic transition; he doesn't quite command the comedy energy that Mark Wahlberg did, when he swaggered into the comedy genre with «The Other Guys», but Tatum still deserves praise for his performance.

But back to the play - Vaughan - Lawlor delivered a commanding and bravura performance with plenty of puffing, scrapping and yapping about The Avalanche's ski pants, the ladyboy and the Mousie.

Delivering a wonderfully restrained but equally commanding performance of a man struggling to find the strength to cope, Teller is the true star of the picture, while the chemistry shared with Koale, whose bond serves as the heart of the story, is equally touching.

Dumbledore is, along with Lord Voldemort, the greatest wizard in the land, a wise leader and a strong warrior who commands great loyalty and respect from all walks of magical life, yet there is none of this command in Gambon's performance, and many times it feels like he's treading water - filling the suit until the next scene, and that's a damned shame.

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.

Still I Strive (Unrated) Uniquely - structured documentary interweaves reality with dream images to relate a tale of healing and transformation through compassion at a Cambodian orphanage where child actors train for a command performance for royalty.

While she's not as comfortable with the South African accent as Elba, she commands an emotionally taut performance as Nelson's wife.

Ray has a knack for seamlessly blending events that seem like they could have happened with events that probably never happened, not to mention his gift for commanding performances.

Teller is tremendously watchable even when he's not trying — when he IS trying, he can command the screen, which he does here, going toe to toe with Eckhart, who gives one of his best performances of late as Rooney.

«A riveting, screen - commanding performance from a fresh face is a rare and magical thing — rarer still is that it lands in the lap of filmmakers who know what to do with it.»

«This is a fine production, beautifully designed and lit, with a commanding central performance by McKellen.»

But with «Obvious Child,» she commands an entire movie, one crafted around her performance as a struggling Brooklyn stand - up comedian who finds herself knocked up (like in the movie «Knocked Up ``!)

The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos tells his story with complete command of visuals and performances.

Fresh off making his own directorial feature debut with Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Fassbinder delivers a revelatory performance, commanding every frame as he channels the character's dark and provocative energies.

But in the case of the plucky orphan, Ntsane's commanding performance summons the conviction of a child in sync with the customs and beliefs of his world.

http://blog.themoviereport.com/search/label/CinemaCon «From her show stopping and Emmy Award winning performances on Saturday Night Live to her commanding performances on the big screen, Kate McKinnon has entertained audiences around the world with her hilarious brand of comedy,» noted Neuhauser.

The powerhouse performances — Asia Kate Dillon is the season's best addition, every bit as commanding and complex as Lewis and Giamatti — coupled with the snappy dialogue and stunning directorial turns from the likes of John Singleton, Karyn Kusama, and Ed Bianchi, led to a season of raucously entertaining twists and turns.

Arguably the more interesting performance came from Tom Hiddleston as the villain of the piece, Loki, looking as though he borrowed a lot from Brad Dourif's slimy performance as Grima Wormtongue in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, albeit with much more command and presence that such an antagonist requires.

It's hard to imagine the film being nearly as effective with another actor in the role, because it's his commanding performance that transforms «Selma» from yet another stuffy biopic into a stirring political drama worthy of Dr. King's legacy.

Marion Cotillard steals the show from Pitt and filmmakers with an equal parts commanding and emotional performance.

Simultaneously slight and over-explanatory, these sequences ultimately come across as unnecessary for filling in the back story of its leading man; Bomer's eyes convey so much about his character's complicated relationships with nurture and (literal) nature that the deflating speechifying of Pullman's scenes feel like a disservice to his commanding performance.

Director Joe Johnston, perhaps predictably, has infused Hidalgo with a sweeping, old - fashioned sensibility that's reflected in its various attributes, and it's clear that the movie's initial stretch is as watchable as it is (occasionally) thrilling - with Mortensen's typically commanding performance anchoring the proceedings to an impressive degree.

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese does a superb job of immediately luring the viewer into the proceedings, as Taxi Driver, which kicks off with an engrossing job interview sequence between Travis and a gruff personnel officer (Joe Spinell), boasts a fairly mesmerizing opening stretch that's heightened by De Niro's commanding performance and Scorsese's inventive, eye - catching visuals.

Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case, Command Performance comes to DVD divided into a dozen chapters, presented in 2.35:1 widescreen, with English language Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound and 2.0 stereo audio mixes, and optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles.

It has a script that is sharp as hell, great performances, and direction that leads the entire circus with a deft command.