Unfortunately for Gunn, the film failed to gain significant traction at Sundance, despite strong notices.
The play, an urban comedy by Charles Busch, received a round of strong notices.
Mr. Richmond, who has been receiving strong notices for his sullen, nearly mute depiction of Mr. Malvo, took up smoking.
Later in the 1970's she moved back to New York and received strong notices performing at the Cookery, in Greenwich Village.
She received equally strong notices for her sexually confident casino waitress in "The Cooler" (2003), about a gambler (William H. Macy) who is paid to lose.
T'Challa duly makes his first appearance in the current Marvel epic Captain America: Civil War, with Boseman winning strong notices for his pivotal turn.
Another directorial debutant, Don Cheadle, received strong notices for his spirited Miles Ahead, a chronologically elastic portrait of the legendary jazz musician Miles Davis, whom Cheadle portrays with grizzled vim.
SINCE the London Philharmonic Orchestra engaged the Russian maestro Vladimir Jurowski as its principal conductor in 2007, this august institution has reaped consistently strong notices for its dynamic, exacting performances and broad repertory.
Mr. Falivene earned strong notices with Ora, his own restaurant in Morristown (since closed), and at City Bistro in Hoboken, after working as chef de cuisine at Artisanal bistro in Manhattan.
Next month, however, a group of commercial producers will try to make a go of "Cymbeline," one of Shakespeare's trickier tragic romances - though with a staging that received strong notices from critics this winter.
