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...The whole thing is a nail-biter. But the essence of the drama could be applied to boules, or rhythmic gymnastics — or any human competition....
Jodie Comer plays a new mother navigating a flooded Britain in Mahalia Belo’s nuanced nail-biter
...No ghostwriter could nail the tone like this. It is the autobiography only Werner Herzog could have written. He begins without underwear....
...But she nails with eerie precision the markers of status across all workplaces: the money, yes, but also that certain glow that comes with being inside the meeting room that matters....
...She nails the broad strokes, the high notes and even adds nuance....
...Failed acts of disobedience: “Rico had found a big nail and wanted to puncture [a police officer’s] tyres, but he couldn’t get the nail in the rubber.”...
...More important, he nails the lost-soul ambience of British seaside towns, drawing in a woman like Hilary....
...Smoczynska is Polish, but nails the murky grain of 1970s and ’80s Britain, all ring roads and looming pylons an unlucky child is always clearly about to fly a kite into....
...The audience biting their nails will be Netflix executives. The green light for the mega-budget came back in July 2020, the streamer then flushed with imperial ambition on the back of Covid sign-ups....
...Explore FT critic Danny Leigh’s top 10 films of the year....
...Here’s Danny Leigh’s review, which my head says is exactly right, while my heart is with Raphael Abraham....
...“Like a concrete ball falling into a metal well full of seawater,” she says, which pretty much nails it....
...To rouse the olds from their stupor, younger, cheaper actors enter, bringing with them the air of a Nine Inch Nails tribute band. What next? Hard to say....
...Or the joy of learning that even in ’67, Paulie Walnuts fussed over his nails....
...Three, how gracefully he also nails the heart of the project. We boggle at how this could stay lost so long — with all that implies about cultural priorities. And we keep on dancing as we do....
...Such are the essentials of life for a vivid community of barbers, short- order cooks and salon nail technicians. Every one and hundreds more are soon out in the streets, an all-action dawn chorus....
...The actor trained with an opera coach to nail the delivery. The scene is the kind that Oscar voters love....
...Nearby, the go-ahead owner of a beauty salon returns to a ramshackle home amid a sea of rubble — a lonely “nail house” she refuses to sell to developers. (She is played by the excellent Vivian Wu.)...
...Along with fellow hack Danny Sullivan, Allie uncovers a homegrown terrorist cell. But is it a good idea to infiltrate the group?...
...What kind of art thief is diligent enough to carefully remove the nails from the frame rather than simply cut the canvas — and so slapdash as to wander in front of the surveillance camera?...
...“Every three months you would have a nail-biting panic over whether the review was on track and whether the IMF board would approve a disbursement.”...
...So the set-up goes in director Alejandra Márquez Abella’s gracefully jagged movie, made with a nod to master surrealist Luis Buñuel and a high-gloss aesthetic of fashion magazines, face masks and nail varnish...
...The trigger is another local, beautician Jade (Stefanie Martini), a vision of poise and acrylic nails. Even she comes with a goosebump, making wigs as a sideline, arranged on rows of mannequin heads....
...She was a wife too, although the bedlam around Polo has put a final nail in her faltering marriage to Gastón (Gael García Bernal), older than her, unable to father children....
...Kaling nails the maleness of the writers’ room — getting another good line out of whether this is quite the same as masculinity — while pinpointing it as the product of Katherine’s aversion to women colleagues...
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