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The Color Purple is visually beautiful, in trademark Spielberg - style, and also features wonderful performances by Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Rae Dawn Chong.
This movie, which embraces some wonderful performances by both adults and high - school kids, should prove a draw for all ages and might just remind some of us who are years beyond their student days of our own successes and misses way back when.
Right behind these five, it must be acknowledged, are wonderful performances by Brie Larson in Short Term 12, Adele Exarchopoulos in Blue is the Warmest Colour, Amy Adams in American Hustle (who is the real threat to bump one of the five, though if you asked her I bet she'd not want to do that).
Filled with patriotic images of what the nation's capital city used to look like, with wonderful performances by a young Jimmy Stewart as Mr. Smith, Jean Arthur as his cynical assistant and Claude Rains as his corrupt mentor.
This film could have easily been mediocre if it wasn't for the great casting and wonderful performances by everyone involved.
There were a number of wonderful performances by actors and actresses in film in 2017.
It's Got: Wonderful performances by a young cast, no punches pulled, a truly terrifying romance between a girl called Smell and a boy a couple of years her junior
Romney has no momentum and seems to be sliding a bit, even with the wonderful performance by Chris Christie on his behalf.
A wonderful performance by the Manchester United talisman, until he got sent off, Pogba was the leader that his side needed in the middle to see out such a difficult game.
Darkly humorous, witty and nasty, Freeway is an original take on the Red Riding Hood fairytale, featuring a wonderful performance by the teenage Reese Witherspoon, before she became a star
A rueful, warmly affecting film featuring a wonderful performance by Mr. Troisi, The Postman would be attention - getting even without the sadness that overshadows it.
The solution: he enlists his buddy and fellow limo driver Clyde (another wonderful performance by John Ortiz), to teach him how to swim.
That kind of emotional centre is key to the success of Crowe's films, and it works beautifully here, aided immeasurably by a wonderful performance by then - newcomer Renee Zellweger, as well as a spot - on effort from Cruise and a deliciously over-the-top innings from Cuba Gooding Jr..
The film is balanced beautifully and anchored throughout by that wonderful performance by Tom Hanks.
Wonderful performance by Renner and Weisz, despite the lack of a coherent storyline and a poorly written script.
Anne Hathaway in «Rachel Getting Married» — A wonderful performance by Anne Hathaway, who is showing a lot of promise as of late in an otherwise awful film.
With a wonderful performance by Yolande Moreau at its centre, Séraphine is an almost brilliant portrayal of the life of a minor French painter from the early 20th Century — Séraphine Louis — and the winner of seven César awards in 2009 including Best Film and Best Actress.
This is a wonderful performance by Bhatt in a thoroughly engrossing film.
Not exact matches
When you think about Steven Spielberg movies, you think excitement, thrills, powerful performances — all done over a wonderful score (often by John Williams).
And this in spite of the fact that I do not by any means doubt that you have completely understood and assented to the newest philosophy, which like the modern age generally seems to suffer from a curious distraction, confusing promise with performance, the superscription with the execution; for what age and what philosophy was ever so wonderful and wonderfully great as our own — in superscriptions!
Barkley has had some dazzling performances and scored some fantastic goals, especially this one against Manchester City: His wonderful season was summarised by a much deserved call - up to the England World Cup squad for the biggest footballing tournament in the world in Brazil this summer.
United carried on where they had left off at Derby, starting the game on the front foot and never allowed Stoke to settle, inspired by some wonderful individual performances from Anthony Martial and Wayne Rooney, who both got on the scoresheet, and Juan Mata.
This wonderful film could have so easily been made into a silly comedy but is fortunately instead a bittersweet drama that relies on a captivating performance by the always talented Ryan Gosling, who gives life to a sensitive character that never seems less than real.
From the wonderful direction by Spielberg to the outstanding performances by the entire cast, to terrific writing by Hannah and Singer, this is a fantastic drama that's held together by a solid score by composer John Williams.
The acting performances delivered by the cast are wonderful and they each bring something effective to the screen.
Elevated from nice to beautifully memorable by wonderful performances and thoughtful direction of perfect small moments.
With an exquisite direction, impeccable performances and an absolutely wonderful screenplay, this profoundly sensitive and unconventional love story uses a lot of humor to depict in a most irresistible way the discovery of love by two lonely, introspective people.
Emperor of the North Pole is a terrific film that is entertaining from start to finish, and there are plenty of wonderful performances as well by its cast.
In his review of the film, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky states that this one - of - a-kind film is carried «by Nichols» measured style and an embarrassment of wonderful performances.»
By now you've probably heard how wonderful the performances were from Eddie Redmayne (last year's Oscar winner) and Alicia Vikander in Tom Hooper's adaptation of The Danish Girl.
Summary The Light Between Oceans is a depressing story that the viewer knows can not end well for the characters; however, the film is beautifully shot, delivers wonderful surround - sound audio, and is carried by outstanding performances from its cast.
The humour of the writing and the main performances is wonderful, and the ambiguity of it all is tantalising... set against the backdrop of a 60 - piece orchestral score by Radiohead's own Jonny Greenwood.
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.
«What a wonderful way to celebrate our fifth anniversary by honoring this fine collection of talented films and groundbreaking performances.
Mark Ruffalo, in a rare not - wonderful performance, plays Dan Mulligan, a dissolute music industry producer in New York, separated from his wife (Catherine Keener) and estranged from his daughter (Hailee Steinfeld), who finds career and personal redemption in promoting little - known Brit balladeer Greta (played well enough by Keira Knightley, who performs some of the songs).
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.
Despite the wonderful performances, «Strangers» was snubbed by the Academy.
A beautiful debut film both mysterious and enchanting, and anchored by a wonderful performance from Kesley Siepser, who's a talent that deserves to be noticed.
style parody, it hits with some well - written gags and solid performances from Martin, the wonderful Kathleen Turner, David Warner and a vulnerable vocal turn by Sissy Spacek as the brain.
The lead performance by Sharlto Copley is wonderful, with a perfect blend of smug self - righteousness in the initial sequences allowed to turn naturally to incomprehension and terror.
Aided immeasurably by DoP Fred Murphy's whiskey - dipped glow, and wonderful performances from Anjelica Huston and Donal Donnelly, it's in quieter moments that The Dead soars more so than in the literalism of its overtly poetic finale.
Another wonderful character is brought to the screen by Barkhad Abdi, who with this film turns in his first ever performance in a motion picture.
With a sterling supporting cast led by a passionate performance by William Hurt, Changing Lanes is a wonderful surprise.
The largely improvised dialogue gives it a wonderful authenticity, but it's anchored by some terrific performances from Melanie Lynskey and Anna Kendrick.
It's not that the performances given by Oldman, McDormand, Rockwell and Janney — wonderful actors all, it scarcely needs mentioning — are without their individual merits.
And now comes Split, a remarkably weird and wonderful exercise in psychological terror featuring a virtuoso performance by Scottish actor James McAvoy (X-Men) as a deranged killer named Kevin who is at turns terrifying, grotesque, pitiful, lovable, brilliant, confident, pathetic, happy, sad, mad, and glad.
She's been wonderful in numerous films directed by her husband, Jia Zhang - ke, and she gives arguably her greatest performance to date in Jia's Ash Is Purest White.
Cage's performance is one of the best and most memorable of his career, and it's bolstered by a wonderful script by Nicolas and Ted Griffin, but the key to his character might secretly be Scott's direction, which effectively brings us into Roy's discombobulated mindset while still mastering both the comedic tone and the human element.
From the beginning narration by a Brooklyn accented Tom Hardy to the edge of your seat finale, The Drop is an excellent film and a wonderful final performance from the larger than life James Gandolfini.