Sentences with phrase «actors at the top of their games»

I'm writing this not so much as a critic but as an ordinary moviegoer, experiencing Proustian transport via an old - fashioned scary movie executed by a team of filmmakers and actors at the top of their game.

Here are five gifted actors at the top of their games as five characters in search of what makes a family.

Harry O features an actor at the top of his game, playing a character complex enough to contain his talents.

I always enjoy watching a movie that is a great character study, especially when you have two actors at the top of their game.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

Flickreel takes a look at one of our best directors and actors at the top of their game in Stronger.

From that demented start, an offbeat relationship blooms that is a kick to watch, in no small part thanks to the two central performances by actors at the top of their game.

This is an actor at the top of his game and he proves it each time he returns to Caesar.

But most of all, this is Freeman's show, and Cargo works best as a showcase for an actor at the top of his game, turning a gruelling quest against the clock into a melancholic search for a future.

Casey Affleck is phenomenal in the lead role, delivering a subtle but powerful performance that showcases an actor at the top of his game, while Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler and Lucas Hedges round out the excellent cast.

Casey Affleck is phenomenal in the lead role, delivering a subtle but powerful performance that showcases an actor at the top of his game, while Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler and relative newcomer Lucas Hedges all deliver outstanding work in supporting roles.

Corbijn has assembled outstanding actors at the top of their game to bring this story to life.

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Individual characters are beautifully drawn, each distinctive yet archetypal, the product of writers, actors, and directors at the top of their game.

The Belgian actors Renier and Schoenaerts, both at the top of their game, make their characters» emotional responses to traumas more indelible than the bloodyings they receive.

From The Shape of Water to Three Billboards to Downsizing, these four performances feature actors and actresses at the top of their game and Oscar clips that had everyone talking.

He gets some terrific scenes (including teaching both Hackman and De Vito — on separate occasions — how to master the hard - man stare) and proves himself to be an actor truly at the top of his game.

Fortunately, Chandor has a stellar ensemble cast of actors at his disposal, most of whom are at the top of their game here — particularly Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons as the steely head of the firm, and Paul Bettany in a dynamic performance that makes you wonder why he's been wasting his time making genre films for the past few years.

Boone Isaacs says the five best actor nominees — Bradley Cooper («American Sniper»), Steve Carell («Foxcatcher»), Benedict Cumberbatch («The Imitation Game»), Eddie Redmayne («The Theory of Everything») and Michael Keaton («Birdman»)-- «are all at the top of their game.&raGame»), Eddie Redmayne («The Theory of Everything») and Michael Keaton («Birdman»)-- «are all at the top of their game.&ragame.»

It's a heartrending scene in a lead role from an actor very much at the top of his game.

Three actors at the very top of their games, even with two of them being shaky at times, and a director who is clearly passionate and deeply respectful towards the material.

Of course it helps that all three of these actors are at the absolute top of their game, with chemistry that could make any movie feel like a straight - up masterpiecOf course it helps that all three of these actors are at the absolute top of their game, with chemistry that could make any movie feel like a straight - up masterpiecof these actors are at the absolute top of their game, with chemistry that could make any movie feel like a straight - up masterpiecof their game, with chemistry that could make any movie feel like a straight - up masterpiece.

Juliette's voice actor in particular absolutely nails the character, doing a top job of believably selling the player on the creeping dread that the game exudes at every turn while also evoking tones making her sound like a more softy spoken, tense version of Swedish actress Noomi Rapace in the process.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with iOf the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with iof their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with iof film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with iof their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

But once brought to life, audiences responded to 2012's «The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,» which boasted an impressive cast of veteran actors, including Oscar winners Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, as well as Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson at the top of their game, Dev Patel («Slumdog Millionaire») as Sonny, the young owner of the hotel, affectionate direction by John Madden («Shakespeare in Love») and a script about lost love, dying love and clashing cultures by Ol Parker.

From John Hurt's embittered alcoholic to Mark Strong, in one of his finest performances ever, as the restrained and closeted individual who is the centrepiece of the plot, each actor in this is truly at the top of their game.

Along for the ride is a cast of very fine actors, all at the top of their game: Emma Stone (Magic in the Moonlight) as Riggan's daughter; Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) as his nervous lawyer and friend; Naomi Watts (St. Vincent) as his female co-star; Andrea Riseborough (Oblivion) as his girlfriend (and other co-star); Amy Ryan (Win Win) as his ex-wife; and Lindsay Duncan (Le Weekend) as a nasty theater critic.

The main reason the film still excites today is because it offers the chance to see some of the finest studio actors working at the top of their game.

When we sat down to decide which actors to interview for this season's The Actor's Side, my Deadline video series dedicated to exploring the art of acting with those at the top of their game, I said No. 1 on the list had to be Richard Jenkins, whose work I have long admired and followed.

Juliette's voice actor in particular absolutely nails the character, doing a top job of believably selling the player on the creeping dread that the game exudes at every turn while also evoking tones making her sound like a more softy spoken, tense version of Swedish actress Noomi Rapace in the process.