Not exact matches
Irish
actor Andrew Scott is
excellent as the deceitful, snivelling scoundrel whose habit of taking advantage of the good graces of others hits its limit.
A disparate group of
excellent actors including Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Carrie Coon, Alison Brie and David Cross are the supporting cast, and in most cases supporting is all they're really required to do — though Rhys is very compelling in his short amount of screen time
as whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.
A dozen or more
excellent character
actors keep things fairly interesting, and the cast includes everyone from the Young
Actor of the Moment, Timothee Chalamet (
as a marginal member of Blocker's gang), to Rory Cochrane
as Blocker's longtime friend, a ruined man with too much blood on his hands.
With an
excellent, career - topping performance by the late Harry Dean Stanton, coupled with a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from
actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and
as we're about to make our ultimate transition.
There are
as well such not - so - incidental pleasures
as John Rubinstein's lovely and serviceable musical score, and a cast of
excellent supporting
actors.
An
excellent actor himself, he visits the story
as a remarkably awkward pastor turning a funeral service into a nitwit farce.
By contrast, the very fine character
actor Catherine Keener is
excellent as his no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (
as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»).
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.
Chastain is
excellent in her leading role and has clearly made a place for herself
as an authoritative, female
actor.
With an
excellent cast of character
actors in all of the roles,
as well
as terrific costumes, sets and special effects, no expense was spared in getting the look and feel of the eerie world the Addams» inhabit just right.
The result — subtitled Archer: Vice — is a hilariously ridiculous new conceit buoyed by the sharp writing and
excellent voice cast, which is led by Bob's Burgers voice
actor H. Jon Benjamin
as the titular character.
Carano ultimately emerges, despite the
excellent cast of famous
actors around her,
as the one worth watching.
Whoever thought the
excellent Irish
actor Ciarán Hinds (The Eclipse) was believable
as the elder Worthington must be stark raving mad, and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) was the older, wheelchair - bound version of Csokas» character isn't much better.
The constant droning of sad classical music over 70 % of the film is highly manipulative.The lead actress is toiling hard in the fields, yet at all times wears lipstick, foundation, rough and mascara.Even some of the males wear lipstick throughout.Everybody is drop dead gorgeous, no mud or gore in sight.The whole film is suffused with too much romantic zeal and sentiment.The two lead
actors are
excellent, but
as usual Tom Sturridge is poor.He fails to convince he could ever be the dashing colonial soldier with his thin, weedy style of acting.One star
Krasinski and Blunt provide
excellent performances,
as do the young
actors who play their kids, but the creatures are often the stars here.
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).
He just has very little opportunity to suggest real menace and sell his plan (taken apart, I think his plan has some flaws), and while introduced to set up for their own movies, Boseman and Holland are both
excellent additions
as both
actors and characters
Davis was
excellent on AMC's Halt and Catch Fire and in Blade Runner 2049, but Tully should push her into an entirely different realm
as an
actor.
(One clever bit of casting that shows up here is Derek Jacobi
as Senator Gracchus; Jacobi is an
excellent actor above all, but it also provides an allusion to the classic I, Claudius in which Jacobi played Emperor Claudius — underscored by the fact that Commodus tells young Lucius a story about Claudius in one scene in Gladiator.)
Joining him
as co-leads in the cast are two other
excellent actors: Martin Csokas and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Greg Kinnear is
excellent as Todd Burpo, a loving husband to wife Sonja (Kelly Reilly from «Flight») and father to daughter Cassie and fun - loving four - year - old son Colton (played by first - time
actor Connor Corum).
Indeed, the entire cast is
excellent, with special mention to Donald Sutherland
as the Bennet patriarch; his tender final scene with Knightley stands
as perhaps the
actor's greatest moment.
Rockwell, who won Best Supporting
Actor for his performance
as a dim cop on a short and normally racist fuse, is funny but couldn't be accused of underplaying, while the somewhat overlooked Harrelson,
as the police chief who unexpectedly turns out to be hiding not just a conscience but a tragic secret too, is quietly
excellent.
In
actor - turned - director Raúl Arévalo's debut feature The Fury of a Patient Man, the mesmerizing Ruth Díaz was rewarded for her
excellent performance
as a pawn (to be sacrificed) in a sinister game of revenge.
As expected, the HBO series marks the arrival of a larger - than - life sci - fi epic jam packed with memorable characters,
excellent turns from
actors Ed Harris and Evan Rachel Wood (among others), and enrapturing action sequences that have emotional payoff to match.
Jim Broadbent is
excellent as Slughorn — a case of a talented
actor playing a great character.
In the days before Andrew Garfield was Peter Parker or Eduardo Saverin, the
actor made a name for himself
as a blue collar worker trying to hide a dark past in John Crowley «s
excellent debut «Boy A.».
The fifth feature from About Elly writer / director Asghar Farhadi, and the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival (
as well
as earning best
actor and actress awards for the
excellent ensemble cast at the same event), A Separation tells a personal tale rampant with politics.
On top of his
excellent performance in The Look of Love
as Charles Raymond, he was also well received
as both the writer and
actor in Philomena.
The attempt to make a new version — once touted
as a remake — of Gareth Evans»
excellent action thriller The Raid has had a typically torturous development battle with
actors and directors named then departing.
The supporting cast — especially Scott, of «Sherlock» fame — all do
excellent work (the
actors all called in live from a hotel room during the film's real - time shoot), but there isn't so much
as a sliver of doubt that the film belongs entirely to Hardy.
SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you want to see two
excellent actors battle each other
as only resentful father and sons can
In recent times we have seen British
actor Tom Wilkinson take him on somewhat controversially in Selma,
as well
as Bryan Cranston in his Tony - winning and Emmy - nominated turn in All the Way; both were
excellent in the role, especially Cranston.
Alan Arkin delivers an
excellent cameoas the director of Vince's acting class, especially during his attack on thepregnant pauses of Method
actors such
as Marlon Brando.
I don't know if that means he did an
excellent job portraying that or if that meant he doesn't seem in control
as the
actor.
I hope Geoffrey Rush is nominated for best supporting
actor at the Globes and Oscars,
as he is
excellent as Lionel Logue â $ «a part very well scripted..
Visnjic had limited opportunity, a shame
as he is an
excellent actor.
As EW points out, Wood is not only the former Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but also has plenty of horror movie experience from both sides of the camera — as an actor in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty and the excellent 2012 remake of Maniac, and as a cofounder of indie - horror company SpectreVision, where he has helped a diverse array of projects to the screen, including A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and most recently The Greasy Strangler, which will be released in theaters and on demand this Friday, Oct.
As EW points out, Wood is not only the former Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but also has plenty of horror movie experience from both sides of the camera —
as an actor in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty and the excellent 2012 remake of Maniac, and as a cofounder of indie - horror company SpectreVision, where he has helped a diverse array of projects to the screen, including A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and most recently The Greasy Strangler, which will be released in theaters and on demand this Friday, Oct.
as an
actor in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty and the
excellent 2012 remake of Maniac, and
as a cofounder of indie - horror company SpectreVision, where he has helped a diverse array of projects to the screen, including A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and most recently The Greasy Strangler, which will be released in theaters and on demand this Friday, Oct.
as a cofounder of indie - horror company SpectreVision, where he has helped a diverse array of projects to the screen, including A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and most recently The Greasy Strangler, which will be released in theaters and on demand this Friday, Oct. 7.
Carell, who began to shed his «gross - out - comedy -
actor» tag in 2014's «Foxcatcher», continues to demonstrate his skill
as one of the most exciting dramatic
actors working today while Gosling is on fine, flashy & quick - fire form in his best role since «Crazy Stupid Love» and a superb supporting cast includes an always
excellent Rafe Spall and «New Girl's Max Greenfield who delivers a brilliant turn
as a nauseatingly hilarious mortgage broker.
«FOXCATCHER» (2014) Carell earned a Best
Actor Oscar nomination for his
excellent performance
as John DuPont.
It's not just that Edwards (Godzilla, Monsters) is directing (I'll admit to not having quite
as much faith in J.J.
as some do), or that quite possibly my favorite
actor of the year, Bloodline's Ben Mendelsohn is starring alongside an awesome, diverse, and
excellent cast that includes Felicity Jones, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Aris — it's also that at D23, two more beloved
actors were announced: Firefly's Alan Tudyk, and Hannibal's Mads (mothereffin») Mikkelsen!
The same comedian /
actor from the skit Comedy Central duo Key & Peele, turns out to be a pretty
excellent director
as well.
Brazilian
actor Wagner Moura is
excellent as the notorious drug kingpin, right down to the constant fidgeting with his pants, striking the perfect balance between charming and ruthless.
Dominic West
as the supposedly nefarious Prince of Zodanga is an
excellent actor but the character lacks definition whilst the frankly baffling Holy Therns, a bald headed group of mystical alien interventionists led by the ubiquitous Mark Strong are quite colourless.
Knightley thanked her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch for «being
excellent» in his role
as Alan Turing and the Hollywood Film Awards clearly agreed, honoring Cumberbatch with the Hollywood
Actor Award for his turn
as the openly gay mathematician and computer scientist.
All the performances are absolutely
excellent; Bradley Cooper is an
actor that was always just been passable for me but here he shows a very impressive side to his acting talents; Jennifer Lawrence has impressed before in «Winter's Bone» and «The Hunger Games» but this may well be her finest performance to date
as she balances vulnerability and strength with ease.
Stage Beauty (2004) 3/5 I had expected a great deal from Richard Eyre which stars two great
actors (Claire Daines and Billy Crudup) early in their careers and thought the film is entertaining enough and the performances, particularly from the leads, are
excellent, the film
as a whole is rather underwhelming.
This definitive release recycles Altman's
excellent DVD commentary and adds enticing new features, such
as a rare - for - Criterion retrospective documentary where the likes of
actors Rene Auberjonois and Keith Carradine reflect on the film's production and its cultural moment.
As each of the three narratives centre on a different lead
actor, we're treated to a trio of very different,
excellent performances from British TV veteran Paul Whitehouse, Black Mirror / The End of the F*cking World's Alex Lawther and the ever reliable Martin Freeman.
It's also just picked up a few official plaudits at the Genart (ist) Emerging
Actor Awards, which celebrates upcoming talent on all sides, where Madeleine Martin (who you might recognise as Becca from the excellent Californication) grabbed the emerging actress award and Devon Graye for best emerging a
Actor Awards, which celebrates upcoming talent on all sides, where Madeleine Martin (who you might recognise
as Becca from the
excellent Californication) grabbed the emerging actress award and Devon Graye for best emerging
actoractor.