Example sentences for: fiennes

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  • It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.

  • Opening with a slapstick sequence of agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) doing kung fu, the film shifts to a scene in which he meets Mrs. Peel (Uma Thurman) while sitting naked in a sauna with only a newspaper to cover his private parts.

  • The story of a wartime affair that runs aground on one party's religious faith is "[h]andsomely mounted, literate, emotionally sophisticated" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) and filled with a "dreamy intensity" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Nearly every reviewer notices the crackling chemistry between stars Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes.

  • Many consider her adaptation of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel--about a romance between two eccentric gamblers, played by Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett--to be disjointed.

  • In The Very Thought of You , three shallow, London-based mates coincidentally meet and fall in love with the same pretty blond American flake (Monica Potter), thus filling the one she likes best (Joseph Fiennes) with guilt and shame.


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