Damon Wise of The Guardian said that "Watts is both brave and vulnerable, and her scenes with the young Lucas ... are among the film's best".
The dramatic involvement of all the cast suggest that they too have bought into Bieito's approach – Tamara Wilson is an outstanding Leonora, touchingly vulnerable in the early scenes, but reserving her finest singing for the last act, and Hughes Jones also seems to gain in impressive authority as the opera goes on.
Wiig, who's also known for over-the-top characters, shows as she did in Bridesmaids how effectively she can dial things down, get quiet and vulnerable, and do emotional scenes yet still be funny.
The bass Jordan Bisch, 30, was both commanding and vulnerable in the Coronation Scene from Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov".
Stewart's movie seems unlikely to travel as far on the Oscars trail as "Argo" did — as a first-time director, he kept his filmmaking simple and straightforward — but Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, who plays Bahari, may emerge in the lead actor race for his vulnerable performance, particularly a scene where he dances cathartically to a Leonard Cohen song in his jail cell.
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Michelle Williams does an award-worthy job evoking the mysterious actress, so vulnerable and girly in her scenes with the charming Eddie Redmayne.
Like Mr. Dukakis in 1988, Mr. Obama is relatively new to the national scene, and thus vulnerable to being defined by Republican attacks.
That many vulnerable girls gravitate towards this scene and become dependent on it exposes the inadequacy of a welfare system that should be looking out for them.
99percentt of them were from raw, honest scenes with people being vulnerable and true to the situation they've been thrown into.
