Sentences with phrase «wrenching performances»

Kate Winslet has an Oscar, seven total Academy Award nominations, and enough heart - wrenching performances under her belt to easily qualify as one of the best living actresses.

Nate Hardman and Kaycee Moore deliver gut - wrenching performances as the couple whose family is torn apart by events beyond their control.

Critics Consensus: Director David Schwimmer gets some gut - wrenching performances out of his actors but he still lacks the chops to fully ratchet up story tension.

He moves in and makes his home with his immigrant wife (Shohreh Aghdashloo in a heart - wrenching performance) and his teen - aged, skateboarding son (Jonathan Ahdout in a promising debut).

I spent much of the movie thinking about her Oscar - nominated turn as an intrepid Boston Globe reporter in «Spotlight» and her wrenching performance as an Orthodox Jewish woman in the upcoming drama «Disobedience,» and wondering why the studios can't give this brilliant actress something comparably rewarding to do.

NPR's Bob Mondello says: The film's most wrenching performance, in fact, comes from Viola Davis, who plays the boy's worried mother as a woman who is in no...

It's a truly wrenching performance that Capra pays off beautifully.

Jackman puts in the first serious bid for 2013 award consideration with a searing, gut - wrenching performance.

Even still, it's Buckley's wrenching performance that keeps you watching even as the story plunges into its harrowing over-plotted final stretch.

It's also most notable for Caine's best performance in at least two decades, and may put his once stellar career back on track (I won't go so far as to say he deserved his Oscar, as I felt Tom Cruise's gut - wrenching performance in Magnolia edged him out).

Marion Cotillard delivers yet another gut wrenching performance.

He was robbed of an Oscar a few years previously for his magnificent turn in «Dead Man Walking» but here gives a similiar emotive and heart wrenching performance and thoroughly deserved his 1st Oscar this time around.

These actors display a gentle sense of characterization that is tied to the western Canadian spirit, with Demeanor being the standout, no better communicated in his heart - wrenching performance of an original song titled «The Next Life».

BPM, which draws on filmmaker Robin Campillo's own years as an activist, is a sprawling drama centered by the emotionally wrenching performance of newcomer Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, playing an ACT UP organizer in Paris.

Beyond Hill, 3 - time Oscar nominee Nick Nolte may have delivered the most heart - wrenching performance in this group of actors.

Best Gut - Wrenching Performance «Bridesmaids» (Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McClendon - Covey and Ellie Kemper) «The Help» (Bryce Dallas Howard) «21 Jump Street» (Jonah Hill and Rob Riggle) «Drive» (Ryan Gosling) «Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol» (Tom Cruise)

It's a gutting film and a heart wrenching performance, one that gets to the core of what happens to families that live paycheck to paycheck and teeter over the brink of poverty, in danger of tumbling into the abyss with even the slightest provocation.

Not exact matches

Again, wrenching pulpit out of context may make it into a kind of barricade, so that utterances from behind it are impenetrable to criticism except by God, who has, with this kind of performance, undoubtedly slept through the whole thing and is too bored to criticize.

That was gut wrenching that performance.

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Also earning the highest Metascore of the festival, the film is a «tender, wrenching, and beautifully made movie,» according to Owen Gleiberman of Variety, with a «remarkable performance» by Mary Kay Place in the title role as a widow who spends her days caring for others, including her drug - addicted son.

If you're not meant to think too hard about what's happening, then «Sons» largely succeeds at its goals, particularly given the performances, the direction (led by Emmy winner Paris Barclay) and Sutter and his writers» talent for crafting gut - wrenching individual moments.

The story of Captain Miller (Tom Hanks, in a beautifully mannered and subdued performance) and his squad's trek behind enemy lines in order to locate Private James Ryan (Matt Damon) is a heart - wrenching and compelling tale that succeeds more as a result of its larger moments than its smaller ones.

Owen pulls off some heart - wrenching scenes, although it's Liberato's revelatory performance as the emotionally confused teen that holds the film together.

All or Nothing has some appealing performances, several scenes of absolutely shattering domestic drama and an uncanny aura of gut - wrenching, documentarylike authenticity.

It was beautifully edited and had stunning musical accompaniment; but, most of all, it had the breathtaking, heartbreaking, transcendent talents of Alan Rickman who graces every movement and every iota of his performance with sheer gut - wrenching, emotional brilliance.

Her gut - wrenching, naturalistic performance of Thomasin has her poised as one of the top rising young stars in the game, with lead roles in buzzed about projects from M. Night Shyamalan, and alongside Kate Mara in upcoming sci - fi movie Morgan (directed by Ridley Scott's son, Luke).

Led by terrific central performances and incredibly imaginative direction, he has crafted one of the most heart - wrenching films of the year.

TIFF 2016 Review: A Monster Calls, a Different Heart - Wrenching Coming of Age Tale: A stellar performance by Lewis MacDougall and Liam Neeson the Tree.

Dern doesn't say much in the scene, but his performance is wrenching, particularly when he looks around his parents» old bedroom and quietly remarks that he would have been whipped if he'd been caught in that room as a child.

But for all the heartbreak that pumps through it, Kenneth Lonergan's ambitious third feature isn't some miserable slog: Anchored by a career - best performance from Affleck, who achieves the herculean feat of making emotional unavailability compelling, Manchester By The Sea is often as flat - out funny as it is wrenching.

Time Out says: «What stiffens this unashamedly exhibitionist movie's muscles are its beautifully judged performances, from Burt Reynolds» stand - out as porn - king auteur / father figure, to Julianne Moore's superb cokehead survivor - star and William H. Macy's humiliated cuckold, right down to Philip Seymour Hoffman's gut - wrenching gay crew member.»

There is so much in this picture, from dread, horror, to suspense, bitterly moving love, extraordinary, Oscar - worthy art direction and a desperate lead performance from Viggo Mortensen which perfectly illustrates the wrenching desperation of parental love.

Bookended by beloved movie stars delivering awards - worthy performances, the festival opens with Alejandro G. Iñárritu's vividly imagined Birdman on Thursday, October 16th and closes with Jean - Marc Vallée's heart - wrenching Wild.

Staunton's performance radiates with glazed, dewy shock as she teeters into the film's wrenching final scene.

The performances are all top - notch; Brooklynn Prince is adorable and heart - wrenching as the effervescent Moonee, who, when she's not being a little scamp underfoot, reveals herself to be remarkably perceptive and inquisitive of the world around her.

That's a shame, because the final forty - five minutes of the movie should have been poignantly heart - wrenching, but with every character an archetype (or, often, a stereotype), it's hard to truly relate to them as real people, and consequently, the emotional impact never allows the narrative to soar to the heights that a live performance with living, breathing people in front of you might offer.

I really enjoyed his performance and has one of the movie's most gut wrenching scenes made made me tear up.

Even without Gerwig's stand - out performance, the dialogue is witty (though not quite as brutal as Baumbach's previous offerings, which may disappoint some), it's deftly humorous, and filled with an honesty that manages to be sweet without being saccharine and wrenching without being devastating.

It's gut wrenching at times and the performances from Hanks and the late, great, Michael Clarke Duncan in particular are electrifying (sorry...).

But ultimately what distinguishes this film is its awful, transfigurative beauty, and Chiwetel Ejiofor's wrenching dignity and grace, a performance which runs like a clear stream through a landscape of unimaginable suffering.

Manchester by the Sea: This wrenching drama runs well over two hours and yet remains riveting throughout, with the movie's engrossing atmosphere perpetuated by a career - best performance by Casey Affleck.

But the heart - wrenching black comedy of Three Billboards rises to another level altogether, in no small part thanks to superb performances by Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell.

This is yet another movie with a strong ensemble: Terry Notary, Karin Konoval, and Michael Adamthwaite push the boundaries of performance capture, and Amiah Miller and Steve Zahn inject the bleak, often gut - wrenching proceedings with a spark of hope and humor.

But at its core is the wrenching tale of two lost souls, with Amy Seimetz giving a brave supporting performance as Carruth's counterpart.

It features brilliant performances from Brooklyn Prince, Bria Vinaite, and Willem Dafoe as well as a final scene that will wrench itself into your memory.

Winning The Best Actress Award at Cannes, Kruger renders a gut - wrenching, fearless performance as a woman forced to choose between fading away and continuing the fight for justice.

Apart from the visual elements of the film, the standout element of the film is a genuinely heart - wrenching and stunning performance by the young Lewis MacDougall.

Standout performances and rich cinematography highlight this slow moving, equally heart warming and wrenching, but ultimately rewarding look at how a family deals with a personal tragedy.