"Mutual Core" was described as "best" and "climactic" by Helen Brown of The Daily Telegraph, which elected Biophilia as the CD of the Week, and "literally volcanic" by Heather Phares of Allmusic.
He was better in the teasingly brief Guess the Time, and best in the climactic 678, where the band could sprawl to their heart's content.
His climactic besting of old rival Andre Agassi was a finale that might have been dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter.
It was Latin jazz, and yet it wasn't, and one of the best things about its climactic final stretch — a powerhouse drum solo over that vamp, and then some comradely sparring by Mr. Potter and Mr. Zenón — was that the distinction felt beside the point, next to the immediacy of the music.
It was panned by critics – a comedown from Altman's similarly episodic Short Cuts the previous year – and is best remembered for its climactic two-minute sequence of nude models strutting down the runway to the strains of Pretty by the Cranberries.
This quest leads him to challenge Lancey "The Man" Howard, an older player widely considered to be the best, culminating in a climactic final poker hand between the two.
And this year, they pulled out all of the stops you expected them to pull out in order to best serve up the climactic news that you were all expecting for about six months.
A spine-tinglingly twisted take on Peter Pan, this intense psychological thriller boasts a career-best performance by Jeff Goldblum.The climactic Paris morgue scene is heartstopping.
Quick action and solid detective work elevate the second part of this book until it segues into one of the best of the series's climactic assaults: the expected, wildly over-the-top moment when Reacher must single-handedly penetrate some kind of huge, geometrically interesting, top-secret high-security fortress.
Even the launch control function, which automatically gives the best getaway, feels oddly anti-climactic as the Vanquish just squeezes itself into hyperspace.
