Brilliant scripts, dazzling music, profound philosophy, cheeky humour, special effects wizardry, and stunning acting.
He hails Nathan Lane for his stunning acting in a Nyquil commercial; he impatiently glances at his watch as Bill Maher pontificates; he tells Janeane Garafolo that he has so many questions to ask her, but he's not really interested.
"She networked and charmed people while not doing anything too stunning, acting-wise.
The "Side Man" troupe was preceded in London by the three Americans in the revival of "American Buffalo" directed by Neil Pepe, while Mr. LaBute's "Bash" involves a stunning American acting trio, Mary McCormack, Matthew Lillard and Zeljko Ivanek, who did his drama training in London.
Theoretically, American racism was rebuked last night: in addition to the movie's best picture win, stunning Kenyan acting newcomer Lupita Nyong'o took home an Oscar for her powerful performance as the tormented slave Patsey, and John Ridley took the honours for best adapted screenplay, working from the 1853 book by the real Solomon Northrup, who survived his dozen years of servitude.
The visual poetry is stunning, and the acting powerful.
Depicting this bildungsroman of Apu in a poor and proud village, the story is simple, the acting stunning, the characters unique.
The first decree issued by Mr. Putin after his stunning appointment last Dec. 31 as acting president guaranteed Mr. Yeltsin immunity from prosecution after he left office.
In Light Sleeper he carried a fascinating, if underwritten movie, but in Auto Focus, Schrader finally gives him full rein, and the result is a stunning piece of discomfiting acting, up there in the pantheon of great creeps alongside De Niro's Rupert Pupkin and James Woods Roy Cohnn.
A soft-drink tax would be unnecessarily punitive and a stunning example of the government acting in loco parentis.
The pattern has become dismally routine: A man, typically acting alone, commits an act of public violence stunning in its indifference to human life.
