Sentences with phrase «actor did his best work»

All of the actors do good work, but Norton and Willis in particular, as Sam's caregivers, really shine.

The other actors all do good work but their characters seem more like an author's construct than real people.

But the hardworking actor did his best work in smaller indie and genre films.

Not exact matches

Oh's performance is truly extraordinary, and proves, like she did with her work on «Grey's Anatomy,» that she's one of the best TV actors ever.

«I've found that when I've done my best work as an actor it was only after I pushed myself to be better than I ever thought I could be.

A songwriter might need accompanying musicians; an author might need a designer to do good work in designing a book cover; a playwright will need actors and a theater to bring her play to life.

But I do expect any filmmaker who has access to a half dozen of the best actors working today and millions of dollars to execute his vision to give the audience something more than psychological torture for the sake of watching the audience squirm.

Not only will this best known of Bergson's works turn out to be a compendium of mathematical metaphors, but its central actor, the vital impetus (élan vital), will appear to have something intelligible to do: to create increasingly broad rhythms of duration.

His particular way of working and dedication to the modern scientific method did not always go down well with all the centre's employees, and his political independence resulted in a state of disharmony, alienation and rivalry with political actors, which prompted him to submit his resignation in 1977.

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Of all the actors working in Hollywood today, I do not believe a better one could have been picked, as far as appearance and performance go.

There's plenty of raw material here for the kind of ruminative portrait that Haley did so well previously with Danner: Lee's divorce (his ex is played by Elliott's real - life spouse Katharine Ross), his strained relationship with his adult daughter (Krysten Ritter), and his refuge in the company of Jeremy (Nick Offerman), a friendly weed dealer and ex-child actor with whom Lee once worked on a series.

The film looks fine with fair costume, location and stunts but the plot is so average and with a mixed cast of good and bad actors it just doesn't work, how Andie MacDowell gets work in films is beyond me.

Every actor and actress in this has done much better work.

For Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda's widow and children as well as three of Stewart's children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men — in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together.

His mother sends the kid off from the slums of Baltimore to live with her estranged parents, the Rev. and Mrs, Cobbs (played by Oscar winning actor Forest Whitaker, and Oscar nominated best supporting actress Angela Bassett both of whom for their work in films «The Last King of Scotland», and «What's Love Got To Do With It?»)

Everyone knows about different acting methods and a lot of people knew about what Carrey did on the set of Man on the Moon but obviously we never saw it, but that's what this documentary is and although it's not spectacular or anything, it gives another look at the work of the actor and it becomes an excellent companion to the film and especially serves as a testament of one of Jim Carrey's best acting jobs.

Viggo Mortenson gave a remarkable performance in «A History of Violence,» while Jeff Daniels, a well - traveled character actor did career - best work in «The Squid and the Whale.»

The ensemble of Japanese actors do great work as well, especially Yôsuke Kubozuka as their guide and Tadanobu Asano whose character challenges Fr.

I think the best part of being an actor is that to me it feels like I've been in the best film school for the last twenty years because not only do I see the director work on set, I see how the producers work, I see how the DPs work, I see how the gaffers work, I see how the costume department works, I see how the production office works.

Although the script fails to lay down a credible groundwork for their romance, as their relationship builds these two actors do work well off one another.

Ramírez and Bryce Dallas Howard (as Kenny's devoted girlfriend Kay) don't have as much to work with, but they're both good in their respective roles, and the same can be said for the treasure trove of character actors (like Bruce Greenwood, Craig T. Nelson, Stacy Keach and Bill Camp) who pop up along the way.

The Italian actor - turned - director fails to draw anything substantial out of his stars Penelope Cruz (who he worked with on his previous film, Don't Move, another adaptation of a Mazzantini novel) and Emile Hirsch, though the unbelievably phony dialog would stumble up even the best of thesps.

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It gives the film a level of realism that you simply couldn't achieve with regular actors, and although that means making certain sacrifices in other areas (let's be honest, these guys weren't cast because they're good actors, but because they actually do this stuff for a living), it's an experiment that works pretty well.

A young actor who's worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen and Warren Beatty, he's already built up an impressive résumé — although too often, he's done fine work in movies nobody saw (Coppola's sibling drama Tetro, the supernatural YA romance Beautiful Creatures) or been relegated to the margins of good movies (Blue Jasmine).

Like many great European movies that don't have the budgets to destroy cities with CGI, it's all about inner turmoil, the world inside the heart crumbling, and it takes very talented actors working with a very good script to pull it off and keep you interested for this long.

Peele works well with actors too, drawing a great leading man turn from Kaluuya, letting Williams essentially riff on her «Girls» persona, and knowing exactly what to do with Whitford & Keener, both of whom have always had that dangerous edge to their amiability.

Tom Schulman's screenplay is serviceable at best, but it does lay the ground work for actors like Jeff Goldblum and Eddie Murphy to do some of their best work.

It's such a middling entry in a well - developed genre that one must cast about for elements that worked well enough to justify making yet another movie about it, and using some of our favorite character actors — Mark Strong, Jamie Bell and Abbie Cornish — as they did.

Braff does a solid job as the main protagonist, although it's easy to imagine a better actor doing more with the part, while Mandy Patinkin and Joey King (who's steadily proving herself to be one of the best young talents in the business) both deliver great supporting work as Aidan's judgmental, orthodox father and ultra-religious daughter, respectively.

In Argo, Affleck has surrounded himself with a sprawling company of great actors, among them the long - missed Clea DuVall and Tate Donovan doing good nervous work as two of the Houseguests (the CIA term for the escaped six) and the increasingly indispensable Bryan Cranston as Mendez's superior at the agency.

Although the chance to work with such a fun group of actors — and if «Keeping Up with the Joneses» has one thing going for it, it's that the film is really well cast — was no doubt a big attraction for Mottola despite the script's many shortcomings, that enthusiasm doesn't quite translate to the final product.

The actor said: «We all wanted to do good work and this wasn't a paycheque for anybody.

It does feature a very impressive cast of actors, who all do very good work in their respective roles, which makes this film feel a few notches above made - for - TV fare.

If anyone gets overlooked of the three, it's bound to be the less showy work from Gallagher, which is a shame because the young actor finds real humanity in this good - natured guy just trying to survive and do the right thing.

Marvel is known to pair actors who have worked together in the past, so this connection isn't a hard one to make, it also doesn't hurt Woody has Oscar nominations behind him as well.

Even Moneyball, the closest thing to a # 11 for me, didn't cut it, despite being a dense, rewarding character study from two of the best writers in the industry headlined by a charismatic and authentic turn from one of the finest actors working today.

So much of the film was like this — half - thought - out ideas that might have worked with better writers and actors but upon completion didn't work at all.

He is cheaper, younger and has done good work in the movies released so far, so he is perfect for a multi-movie deal as a lead actor.

Although Allen's writing and direction are as sharp as ever, where Bullets Over Broadway rises above most Allen works of the 1990s is in the phenomenal casting, with every actor adding a great deal to his or her role, to the point where it's difficult to imagine anyone doing better.

The actors are good though: Carey Mulligan doing that clever waif thing that's worked for actresses from Audrey Hepburn to Natalie Portman, Olivia Williams and Emma Thompson as teachers who for some reason can't explain why they like teaching (it'd be inconvenient for the plot or something, I guess), and Alfred Molina as the father.

In The Hateful Eight, the actor steals every scene he's in — and yes, even from Jackson, who often does his best work with Tarantino behind the camera — as an eager, would - be sheriff.

He heads an ensemble of crack actors, each with a gift for finding pathos in comedy, and the absurd in the tragic, starting with Shirley Knight as Ned's equally compassionate, equally «idiot» mother, and working through Elizabeth Banks as the sister desperately trying to sell out to make good at the magazine where she toils while missing the cues from the neighbor (Adam Scott) who is willing to literally drop anything to do her household chores; Zooey Deschanel as the pan-sexual sister with truth issues that involve both her girlfriend (Rashida Jones) and the artist (Hugh Dancy) for whom she both poses and poses a problem; and Emily Mortimer, as the earth mother who lost track of what makes her happy and why she wanted to be married to a smug and profoundly disinterested husband (Steve Coogan).

Here's an interesting portrait of Howard Berger, a special makeup effects artist who's worked on films like The Chronicles of Narnia and Inglorious Basterds, and the work he does to transform actors into, well, monsters.

Adam Sandler Does His Best Work Yet — David Sims says the actor shines as the perfectly bedraggled protagonist of The Meyerowitz Stories, Noah Baumbach's new Netflix film.

Didn't work for me, but I give credit to the actors for playing up their roles well.

Some of the film's plot was absurd and the conspiracy at its heart underwhelming, dosage but the story worked and the actors did well in their goofy but satisfying roles.

Fans of Redford and perhaps Gandolfini will enjoy seeing their favorite actors putting in good work, and the film does maintain watchability even through the worst of the nonsense.

Arguably one of the best and most under appreciated actors working today, Patrick Wilson, who's currently doing the press - rounds for Liam Neeson on a train action flick The Commuter (read our review here), has spoken exclusively to Yahoo Movies about reprising his role as Nite Owl from Zack Snyder's Watchmen.