Sentences with phrase «as dramatic actors»

A film that showcases Tatum and Carell as dramatic actors is bound to draw some eyes to this real life crime story.

There's one truly memorable scene in The Skeleton Twins, and it's the one that draws most clearly on the comedic experience of its stars, a pair of former Saturday Night Live castmates moonlighting as dramatic actors.

After Ray, Foxx was viewed seriously as a dramatic actor, but he hasn't been given much of note to do in recent years.

On top of trying to be a Big, Important Film, Jones is also meant to be a showcase for McConaughey's post-Oscar relevance as a dramatic actor, and he turns in a solid but unmemorable lead performance.

It was good to see her in Lost In Translation, and hopefully there will be more roles on the way, as I'm convinced that such a great comedic performer has enormous potential as a dramatic actor.

But from the deftly staged opening onward, Stiller makes the most of his comic timing and, especially his underappreciated skills as a dramatic actor.

Nanjiani's biggest strength as a comedian is also his biggest weakness as a dramatic actor: the withering line deliveries that sound like he's struggling to control his sarcasm.

Crowe, despite his considerable talents as a dramatic actor, is plainly incapable of presenting Javert's convictions believably, starting with the embarrassingly obvious fact that acting well while singing is way beyond his reach; his warning to Valjean to heed his words and remember his name is delivered with such flatness and with so little affect that it's difficult to think of anything else.

What made it even more remarkable at the time was that Kline was known almost exclusively as a dramatic actor, in films like Sophie's Choice, The Big Chill, and Cry Freedom — only people who'd seen him onstage or in The Pirates Of Penzance could have anticipated such a broadly comic turn.

Hill has established his credibility as a dramatic actor by now, but Franco takes on a challenge I've never seen him attempt before.

He has proven himself to be more than adept as a dramatic actor (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Moonrise Kingdom).

KERMIT THE FROG: Well, you may be surprised to hear this, but I'm actually stretching myself quite a lot as a dramatic actor in this thing.

For all her chops as a dramatic actor, she's our new Judy Holliday and Goldie Hawn, only even sharper.

Jim Carrey has shown ability as a dramatic actor, yet even if he seems a strange fit for this lurid and glacially paced murder mystery, he's not the reason for its failure.

Jamie Foxx is the rare comedian who didn't really hit it big in movies until he began appearing in dramatic roles — like his lead performance in Ray, for which he was awarded the 2004 Best Actor Oscar — and is now better known as a dramatic actor than a comedic one.

And it reinvented Cranston as a dramatic actor.

Many performers from Saturday Night Live have gone on to have great success beyond the show, but even if they make the transition to the big screen, it's not easy for a comedian to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor.

Now his career as a dramatic actor is little more than a footnote in the narrative of his life.

I'm excited to embrace his very fine skills as a dramatic actor with this film.»

Not exact matches

The film boasts a shockingly good ensemble that allows typically dramatic actors like Chiwetel Ejiofor a chance to be funny and comedians such as Kristen Wiig and Donald Glover a chance to do their thing.

Still, the inclusion of dramatic actors such as Cruise and Kidman on the overpaid list does lend credence to the fact that paying an actor large amounts of money to star in a movie is pretty risky, if not foolish.

The rule of faith demands that Scripture be read as a coherent dramatic narrative, the unity of which depends on its principal actor: the God who has forever known himself and who, in the history of redemption, has revealed himself to us, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

As the lead actor and director of «City Lights», everything, down to the slapstick comedy, or the quiet and delicate dramatic moments, «City Lights» is a blast.

Following a group of twentysomethings at a Los Angeles apartment complex as they seek stardom as actors, dancers, comedians and producers in this dramatic series.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

In 1987, Sheen starred in Stone's next project, Wall Street, and after establishing himself as a solid dramatic actor, Sheen proved he also had a flair for comedy in the 1989 hit Major League.

As he did with Jonah Hill, Miller will direct an actor known for comedy in a dramatic role, with Steve Carell playing du Pont.

As ever, the director has a real gift at working with actors; Richard Pryor's dramatic chops surprised viewers of Schrader's «Blue Collar» back in 1978, and Cedric the Entertainer's solid turn here should do likewise.

Even though I don't consider Owen Wilson an action nor dramatic actor I believe this is his best job as of yet.

That same year, he was nominated for a Gemini Award as Best Actor in a Dramatic Series for his role of Theo in the drama YAMASKA, a long - running, one - hour television series starring Anne Marie Cadieux and Elise Guilbaut.

The cameo performances by Helen Mirren (as a doctor), Vanessa Redgrave (a piano teacher) and Patricia Clarkson (the victim's mother), among others, reveals Mr. Penn to be a great director of actors with a mind - reading ability to discover a character's truth in the tiniest dramatic nuances.

The sad part of this is that you have great actors like Theron and even Hemsworth, who come across as overly dramatic.

The show ran until 1991, earning Hagman multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations as Best Dramatic Actor.

Daniel Craig is having the time of his life in a role that may be his most impressive, while Channing Tatum continues to stretch himself as an actor, showing just as much ability in his dramatic tones versus his comedic.

The only time the «Harry Potter» franchise stooped to splitting a book into two (and the book was itself not the longest of the series), while all other credentials are present and correct — David Yates is in his stride as the franchise's most reliable director; the actors are the best they'll be; the visuals are as dramatic as the themes — the installment is let down by ending in mid-air and having a whole inert section where the three kids play house in a forest.

Finally, unlike his brief appearances on Game of Thrones (as the elusive Rickon Stark), young actor Art Parkinson gets to show off some dramatic chops playing Vlad's son, Ingeras.

Youngster Liam James holds his own against some great actors as the perpetually awkward wallflower, while Steve Carell plays against type in a role that proves he may be a stronger dramatic actor than a comedian.

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

With such a farfetched plot already in place, this is the sort of film that could have easily degenerated into a muddled farce with a one - note stand - up comic as the lead, but with a good comedic and dramatic actor like Kline at the forefront, he is able to keep the tone of the comedy and drama appropriate to each scene.

It's not as if Amistad was completely shut out, either, picking up nominations in Supporting Actor (Hopkins), Original Dramatic Score (one of the few years where musicals and comedies were given a separate category), Cinematography, and Costume Design.

And the movie is a reminder that Adam Sandler, as he was in Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch - Drunk Love back in 2002, is a really compelling dramatic actor.

I admire Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren as actors, but there were dramatic licenses taken in the film which I didn't agree with.

Whitehouse and Freeman may have cut their teeth and first come to prominence as comic actors, but both possess impressive dramatic chops, the colder elements of their characters delivering jolts when prefaced by the lightest sprinklings of humour.

That's not necessarily his fault; dramatic actors do not necessarily make it up as they go along, and had he been given half a character, Rickman could probably have played him.

But that's not the big surprise about the film: this story of an arrogant, over-the-hill slugger (Mac) who comes out of retirement to chalk up his 3000th hit is more of a serious sports film than a knee - slapping comedy, and Mac gets a rare opportunity to showcase his true dramatic range as an actor.

No, the white characters in «Mudbound» are products of their time, and there's an honesty to that which sometimes supersedes choices that might otherwise have been more satisfying or dramatic — much as the casting favors actors whose weathered faces and strained expressions look as if they might have been lifted from Richard Avedon's «In the American West» series.

It's probably too early to assess that as this movie could be long forgotten by then, but it's the perfect role of him to utilize his strengths as both a comedic and dramatic actor without it feeling like he's trying so hard to prove himself.

The actor is movingly effective as he explores more dramatic territory, and proving an ability to move an audience to tears as well as laughter.

Turns out the 26 - year - old actor is just as natural at charming the ladies and fielding dick jokes onscreen as he is exercising his serious dramatic chops.

Now, as I've said before, I get that director Rian Johnson was making dramatic decisions under the thumb of the Disney corporation, rather than decisions based on the obvious chemistry between these two actors and my personal ships.