Sentences with phrase «as sympathetic a portrayal»

If there's one bit of Ready Player One to be praised highly, it's Rylance's performance: as sympathetic a portrayal of the Steve Jobs type as seen in a movie.

Jordon's 1992 film, «The Crying Game» came under similar criticism for what some saw as a sympathetic portrayal of the IRA.

Not exact matches

The portrayal on Mr. Hamze as a sympathetic figure is ludicrous.

That said, we can actually see a deconstruction of the cowboy as a sympathetic figure through Tom Cruise's portrayal of Barry Seal in American Made, directed by Doug Liman.

Turturro is thoroughly sympathetic in his portrayal of everyone involved (which is not quite the same as approving), and he makes excellent use of a religious subculture that takes sex very seriously (which is not quite the same as disapproving).

Her portrayal is sympathetic, giving the audience a fly - on - the - wall experience of the personal devastation she suffered as the young wife and mother to such a major figure.

Robbie is simply sensational, as she delivers a fearless and sympathetic portrayal of a young figure skater who rose to fame in the early 90's, before she found herself being led into dark places by the people around her.

Stanley Tucci's harried but sympathetic lawyer, representing 80 plaintiffs and helping Rezendes along the way; Paul Guilfoyle as a mellow church fixer; these and others are unerring portrayals.

Looking as though she is carrying the weight of the world and wanting to toss it at the same time, she delivers a piercingly accurate, sympathetic portrayal of a teenager.

While it offers a sympathetic portrayal of the Catholic priest, it depicts the Evangelical persecutor as a cardboard character with little regard for mercy.

That the cartoon manages to both viciously lampoon Hitler (whose portrayal here complicated my childhood perception of him as a demonic historical bogeyman) and also make him something of a sympathetic protagonist is a tribute to the oft - unsung talents of director Bob Clampett, whose every hand - drawn frame is a virtuoso, stand - alone grotesque.

She is able to play Elise as both sympathetic and somewhat sinister, providing a nuanced portrayal that veers between courageous determination and creepiness.

While some of the games she plays seem a bit extreme, Fox's sympathetic portrayal paints the behavior as more misguided than mean - spirited; her Shanté may be a little cocky and deluded, but she clearly has her heart in the right place and does truly love Keith (contributing mightily to the latter is Fox's convincing chemistry with Chestnut).

The book's lesbian trappings prompted the secrecy: a positive and sympathetic portrayal of a sapphic relationship unusual in an era when such things were viewed as degenerate.

Mordo in particular — always villainous in the comics — emerges here as a fully realized presence, one whose inevitable descent (in future films, presumably) will be all the more compelling for his sympathetic portrayal here.