Sentence examples for compelling screen from inspiring English sources

"And for whatever reason, he has a very compelling screen presence.

He's a pretty compelling screen presence, so it's good to see the Captain America franchise take off.

The movie could be a career catapult for Aubrey Plaza ("Parks and Recreation"), a compelling screen presence who suggests the next generation's Janeane Garofalo, but much softer edged.

Though far from a compelling screen presence, Ms. Spears is unaffectedly likable, and in the one scene that requires her to cry, the tears seem to flow naturally.

Her performances as alienated modern women in Moderato cantabile (1960) and La notte (1961; "The Night") and as the volatile, enigmatic Catherine of Jules et Jim (1962) established her as a remarkable actress and compelling screen presence.

Midway in "Disgrace," a faithful, compelling screen adaptation of J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning 1999 novel, its protagonist, David Lurie John Malkovichh), a haughty South African professor of romantic poetry, muses loftily about instinct and desire.

The most compelling screening of the entire festival was part of the festival's most brightly shining New Frontier program -- Oscar-nominated Sam Green and Dave Cerf's "live" documentary Utopia in Four Movements traces four impulses towards utopia at the dawn of the 21st century.

But despite her personal life Taylor was always more compelling on screen than off.

Perhaps it is Tomlin's volatility which makes her so compelling on screen.

Perhaps you'll merit a flicker of a glance, before she returns to her infinitely more compelling computer screen.

Past evidence, however, suggests that the very qualities that made Oldman so compelling on screen have been hard to quarantine.