Tweeters at the Olympic opening ceremony rehearsal yesterday said it was "epic", "a treat", "out of this world", "breathtaking", "spectacular, clever, charming, moving and awe-inspiring" – but almost to a person have heeded director Danny Boyle's request to "#savethesurprise".
Tweeters last night called the rehearsal – which we know starts with a mock-up of the British countryside, including real-life farm animals, cricket players and people dressed in Victorian clothes – "epic", "a treat", "out of this world", "breathtaking", "spectacular, clever, charming, moving and awe-inspiring".
Here is an unexpectedly charming, moving and powerfully acted film about the enigma that is Stephen W Hawking, the Cambridge theoretical physicist who survived a form of motor neurone disease (MND) that was expected to kill him by his mid-20s, and became a pioneer of the study of black holes, a bestselling author and the world's most famous wheelchair user.
Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 review that Cruz "has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable.
Charming, moving, thought-provoking.
Remix played two works: the rapturous viola-and-ensemble Jubilus from 2003, and the charming Moving Trees from a year earlier.
John Martin, dance critic of The New York Times, wrote that she "looks charming, moves beautifully and projects a wistful romanticism".
But Popek's site itself is a charming and moving glimpse into other people's reading lives – the advertisement for a roach exterminator found in Backgrounds of American Literary Thought; the family photographs left behind by previous readers; the small and intriguing key found in Ocean Grove Christian Songs.
Creator Paul Haggis led us all on a joyous journey through the charming, funny, moving, deft and subtle world of hypercorrect Mountie Benton Fraser Paul Grosss, whose ridiculous handsomeness plus full set of both comedy and dramatic chops basically make him the ur-Jon Hamm).
Many critics find advances in her work in "Meet Me in St . Louis and again in "A Star Is Born," but while she is often charming and moving in both, she has lost the winning naturalness she had in "The Wizard of Oz" that made her so refreshingly unlike other actresses.
It's a charming and moving little film, starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.
