Sentences with phrase «wonderful lead performances from»

The film rests on wonderful lead performances from Rolleston and Eketone - Whitu as Boy and Rocky, and it is hard not to overstate how good their turns are.

Lady Bird Is a Sensational Paean to Teenage Life — David Sims raves about Greta Gerwig's witty and moving new film, which features a wonderful lead performance from Saoirse Ronan.

Not exact matches

The sword - and - sandals, «Jesus Picture» star, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, sillier than ever — an injoke reminiscent of Steve Buscemi's ever decreasing mortal remains in the Coenography) is missing, and the gossip columnists (both played by Tilda Swinton, both underused), the sailor tap - dancing musical has an alarming case of closeted gayness (and a wonderful cameo from the Highlander frenchman, Christopher Lambert), the Busby Berkeley mermaid picture has a star (Scarlett Johannson, in a glorious Noo Yawk accent) and whose fish tail is getting more ill - fitting by the hour due to a pregnancy scandal about to break, and a Euro - flavoured drawing - room melodrama has been saddled with an aw - shucks singing cowboy leading man (Alden Ehrenreich in a breakout performance) who is far, far out of his depth.

The two leads are wonderful, especially Ronan, but there are also some cherishable supporting performances, notably from Anne - Marie Duff as Edward's artist mother, brain - damaged since being clonked on the head by the open door of a moving train.

We'll have more to say about this in a full review at some point soon, but we should also mention the wonderful trio of lead performances from Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, and Live LeMoyne (who, speaking of doubles, is an eerie lookalike of Léa Seydoux).

But while the pic is far from perfect, it's a deft portrait of an inimitably controversial figure — and one that features a wonderful lead performance.