It's rivetingly clever, but may strike some, at least, as menacing.
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The tightly choreographed interaction between the dancers and the camera is rivetingly exact.
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Oliver Butler's rivetingly intelligent production includes no special effects except the kind achieved by words.
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He is largely unvetted and untested and, in consecutive televised appearances, this has been rivetingly apparent.
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Her guide and nemesis, a rivetingly sadistic Mother Superior (Melissa Leo), rages at the novices because God has deserted her.
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These are decent and often rivetingly intricate Migos songs, but few individual moments reveal themselves during the album's endless sequence.
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And it is well served by the conductor Matthew Aucoin — his orchestra committed, if less rivetingly rigorous than the recording's — and an excellent cast.
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Gary Chryst, the most admired artist of the Joffrey Ballet of yore appearing with Ballet Theater as a guest, makes Dodon a rivetingly doting dotard.
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Instead, the two talk, in a layered, rivetingly performed debate, one inflected by Cawood's anxiety that Ryan might carry his father's criminal nature inside him.
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"What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole," said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee.
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Mr. Grandage, who staged rivetingly dour productions of "Frost/Nixon" and "The Cripple of Inishmaan" on Broadway, has five months to revise and refine the show.
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Corey Feldman is back in the spotlight following a performance by his band Corey's Angels on Today so rivetingly idiosyncratic that it transfixed the entirety of the internet.
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Reviewing "Weiner" for The Times when it opened theatrically in May, Stephen Holden called it "infuriating and depressing but rivetingly watchable" — a phrase that characterizes the movie's subject as well.
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By the end, the commentary focused instead on the child's preternatural state of grace set against the rivetingly and irrevocably fractured array of adults that Ms. Raine puts on view.
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We wanted to ask him about that, and about what it meant to him to make a movie about poor, black, gay southern people that was also rivetingly quiet and stylistically risky.
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That he could convey all this while negotiating a just-sustained injury is a tribute to his artistry and to that of Ms. Osipova, who offered a rivetingly original account of the role.
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Yet, as Ms. Siff demonstrates in her own career (she's currently enjoying her second season as a rivetingly inscrutable performance coach on Showtime's "Billions"), television now has no shortage of challenging roles for women.
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By that measurement, "The New Edition Story," a vibrant, fiercely committed three-night mini-series that begins Tuesday on BET, is overflowing with love — a jubilant celebration of a group that was preternaturally talented and rivetingly tortured.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's easy to say that the paintings in We Will Win, Didier William's solo exhibit of six rivetingly fresh mixed media works at Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, are individually and collectively mesmerizing.
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But when the sheikh dies and two roguish members of the entourage want to bail on their hazardous mission, up pops Shakib (a rivetingly weird Shakib Ben Omar) — armed with a quiverful of faith-based harangues — to urge them to continue.
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There is an intellectual weakness among the conservative free speech policemen, one that was recently and rivetingly exposed when Stephens went on a campaign to get a university professor fired from his job for the crime of referring to Stephens (in an obscure tweet) as a bedbug.
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Infuriating, depressing, but rivetingly watchable, "this cringe-inducing portrait of an arrogant politician's self-immolation, like the follies of Gary Hart, John Edwards, Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer, shows that even at the risk of career suicide, the penis will not be denied," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.
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His willful personality, array of hot girlfriends, and sudden, wacky pronouncements (like "Call me The Artist..."—and they did) made him a rivetingly odd figure, like the tyrannical kid on that famous Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life," but one who was gently giggling over his power over the media, and generally using it to shake up banal ways of thought.
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In 2000, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me was adapted into a film by David Drake himself. Drake also starred in this version, directed by Tim Kirkman. This film received praise from multiple publications, including The New York Timess Lawrence Van Gelder calling Drake "rivetingly angry, intense, frenetic, frank and touching" and the Village Voices Jessica Winter praising his "impossible balance between mordant wit and articulate bewilderment".
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Director Christopher Nolan worked with Pacino on Insomnia, a remake of the Norwegian film of the same name, co- starring Robin Williams. Newsweek stated that "he [Pacino] can play small as rivetingly as he can play big, that he can implode as well as explode".Grobel; p. xxxiv The film and Pacino's performance were well received, gaining a favorable rating of 93 percent on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. The film did moderately well at the box office, taking in $113 million worldwide. His next film, S1m0ne, did not gain much critical praise or box office success.Grobel; p.
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Reviewing the first episode for The Guardian, Lucy Mangan found the programme "splendid": "plunking down facts firmly and stepping nimbly along them, while managing to convey all the strangeness and excitement of medieval history." Simon Usborne for The Independent said that "although stolid at times, Bartlett's tone let the history do the talking", and he found it was airing along with Dan Snow's Norman Walks on BBC Four made for "a winning double-act". In The Daily Telegraph, John Preston found Bartlett's style "confers an unusual amount of authority and urgency" and said his "account of the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings was rivetingly good".
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Many reviewers noted the strong performances by the three actors, but criticized Ullmann as a director for keeping the film too static and tied to the stage play.Dennis Harvey, "Toronto Film Review: Miss Julie", Variety, 7 September 2014, accessed 14 September 2015 Sheila O'Malley wrote for RogerEbert.com, "The claustrophobia of the kitchen is overwhelming in the film, and the shots of Miss Julie wandering through the manor by herself, her posture broken and stiff, her dress falling off her shoulder, give us a welcome (and yet rivetingly disturbing) change of scene." She continued, "The film has undeniable power," and assures that if one is interested in raw and intense acting at its finest, this film is incredible.
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On the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 94% positive ratings from 111 critics, with an average rating of 8.3/10. The site's consensus reads: "Strikingly stark, brutally honest, and rivetingly assembled, The Gatekeepers offers essential perspective on a seemingly intractable war from some of the men who fought it." The film holds a 91/100 on Metacritic based on 27 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim." The New York Times critic A. O. Scott called the film the best documentary of 2012, deeming it "essential, eye-opening viewing if you think you understand the Middle East," while Times critic Manohla Dargis named it one of the top ten movies of the year.
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Maggie Lee, reviewing for Variety, said, "Despite its magnificent natural vistas and some pulse-pounding action in stunning 3D, 'Wolf Totem' boils down to a familiar environmentalist allegory that doesn't move or provoke too deeply." Lee said Jean-Marie Dreujou's cinematography "rivetingly conveys" the wolves' primal behavior but that the film failed to authentically dramatize the friction between humans and animals. She found the film to lack any "new perspective to environmental themes long expounded on in the West" and that the screenplay "considerably softened" the devastation and led to a weak conclusion. The critic also found the book's "thought-provoking cultural- political subtext" missing from the film and that the film's character development was weak with a "too muted" potential romance introduced late in the film.
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Wuttke began his actor training at the college theater in Bochum and then changed to the Westfälische Schauspielschule Bochum (now Schauspielschule Bochum). He played on numerous German-speaking stages: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, Berliner Ensemble, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Schiller Theater in Berlin, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater of West Berlin, the Thalia Theater of Hamburg, Stuttgart State Theater, Freie Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Frankfurt am Main, Schauspielhaus Zürich (CH) and at the Burgtheater in Vienna (AT), where he has been a director and a member of the ensemble since 2009. When the Berliner Ensemble performed at Berkeley in 1999, his portrayal of Hitler as a petty Chicago gangster in Heiner Müller's adaptation of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui was described as an "astonishing grotesque... comically loathsome and rivetingly outrageous."Hurwitt, Robert A Brecht of fresh air SFGate, July 2, 1999 Wuttke lives with actress Margarita Broich and their two children.
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