Sentences with phrase «as excellent actors»

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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 aActor 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.