This winter awards season is my first as a member of a recognized critic group (the Online Film Critics Society) and thus the first year I get any sort of (however small) tangible say on the subject of
the best films and performances of the year.
The Philadelphia Film Critics Circle nominates and selects annual awards for both the year's
best films and performances and the best films from the Philadelphia Film Festival.
The National Board of Review (NBR) has made their selections for
the best films and performances of 2017.
It is pretty obvious that the Oscars don't often don't reflect what are
the best films and performances, however there are some strong contenders on this list.
It's that most wonderful time of the year in which one group of people (journalists) try to figure out what another group of people (Academy members) think are
the best films and performances of the year.
This year's awards are the second held under the banner of the SFCS, honoring
the best films and performances of the year.
Not exact matches
But bad timing or not, we're forced to include his stiff
and often cartoonish
performance, wondering all the while how much
better the
film could've been if Matt Damon has accepted the part when he was offered it before Affleck.
It is truly the heart of this
film,
and maybe the
best performance he has ever given.
That's just an aside, though, to a
film that's otherwise a suspenseful thriller with some of the
best performances of the year from Mary Elizabeth Winstead
and John Goodman.
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The strange thing for me about recent insipid
performances and disastrous results is that I am calm before the Spurs game.This does not mean in the slightest that I am confident but it has now reached the point where it can't get much worse.If we were still in with a realistic chance of winning the league -LCB- not un-reasonable expectations of wins against Blackburn, Sunderland, West Brom
and Liverpool would have had us ahead of Man Utd -RCB- I would have at
best been hiding behind the settee or at worse avoiding the game totally
and watching a crap
film until 10 0 / clock.
Well aware of the draw of the «post-baby body,» «post-baby»
performances,
and generally people who want to gawk at a woman who just had baby, some parlay that «post-baby» capital into
film promotions.
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a great music
film this is the words which i can say about Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids great work by Jonathan demme
and great
performance bt Justin Timberlake is this movie a history is counted they show the people the history not just the concert i love how jonathan direct this
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Bullet to the Head is a wasted opportunity to make something quite interesting
and worth your time, but instead it just takes bits
and pieces to create something that in the end is not worth watching because the
film lacks a
good story, effective action
and more importantly
good performances and interesting characters.
A GREAT
FILM jonathan demme chance a concert for a film great direction by demme and great performance by Justin Timberlake 10 from 10 grammy 2018 for best music film pl
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film great direction by demme and great performance by Justin Timberlake 10 from 10 grammy 2018 for best music film pl
film great direction by demme
and great
performance by Justin Timberlake 10 from 10 grammy 2018 for
best music
film pl
film please
The latter probably gives the
best performance in the
film,
and the fact that he also starred in the far superior «Bright Young Things» makes you realize how much this movie is lacking.
While star Johnny Depp's singing earned mixed reviews —
and the movie dropped or shortened some of Sondheim's songs — the
film as a whole received plenty of critical acclaim as
well as a Golden Globe for
best picture (with Depp himself earning an Oscar nomination for his
performance).
Derivative, formulaic
and clichéd action
film, Bullet to the Head is a bland movie that fails to grab your attention due to a lack of originality,
good performances and well executed action scenes.
And as far as I'm concerned, after her dreadful film, Striptease, this is a far better film for Demi Moore, and actually this is her only good performan
And as far as I'm concerned, after her dreadful
film, Striptease, this is a far
better film for Demi Moore,
and actually this is her only good performan
and actually this is her only
good performance.
Mike White, who scripted biting, edgy satire of this sort («The
Good Girl,»» Chuck
and Buck») before making his fortune with «School of Rock,» serves up an unsettling
and generally deft comedy of manners with this clash, a
film that greatly benefits from subtle, stinging
performances by Salma Hayek
and as her opposite number, John Lithgow.
Sylvester Stallone has made far
better films than this,
and here he delivers a painfully dull
performance that simply doesn't do anything to keep you interested.
As with most horror
films, the cast is lead by two extremely
good looking people, Ryan Merriman
and Haylie Duff, who both give unexpected
performances.
Many
film fans assume that Mitchell won his 1939
Best Supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Gerald O'Hara in the blockbuster Gone With the Wind; in fact, he won the prize for his
performance as the drunken doctor in Stagecoach — one of five Thomas Mitchell movie appearances in 1939 (his other
films that year, classics all, were Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
and The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
The excellent
performance by Bjork (surprisingly excellent, might I add)
and the genius direction of Lars von Trier work perfectly to make one of the
best films that have graced the
film screen.
Great
performance by Josh Hartnett - he was brilliant in this
film, he delivered quite possibly his
best performance and pretty much carried this
film.
Drawing inspiration from such pivotal usage of practical effects in
films like E.T., The Empire Strikes Back,
and The Thing, the team intends on building a practical robot puppet for the young actor playing Wei to interact with
and get
better performances from.
A great deal of the impact in The Piano Teacher comes from Isabelle Huppert's
performance, which comes as her finest career moment, as
well as one of the year's early choices for 2002's
Best Actress (personal list, of course: I highly doubt that the conservative Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences will be able to make it through the
film).
These minor points aside, Beginners is without doubt one of the
best films of 2011, with an outstanding
performance from Plummer, great writing,
and through being an immensely rewarding viewing experience in general.
He has since contributed supporting
performances to
films like Blue Steel (1990), A Few
Good Men (1992),
and Crimson Tide (1995).
Filmed on location in Italy
and Spain
and shot in brilliant Todd - AO
and Color
and directed by the great British director Carol Reed, Charlton Heston
and Rex Harrison (in their first
and only
film together) give two of the screen's
best performances.
Her
performance is arguably the
best in the whole
film,
and it's just a shame that her fate is ultimately handled in a rather cack - handed way.
Wonderful
performances and assured
and audacious direction make for one of the
best films of the year.
Donat was the recipient of a
Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the title character,
and the
film features the debut
performance of a young Garson.
Kevin Costner has still got what it takes to make the
best out of his
performance and that's exactly what he does in this
film.
In truth, he had more
good film performances to his credit than one might think: he was excellent as the tubercular Doc Holliday in John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1948),
and also registered
well in Kiss of Death (1947), Cry of the City (1948), The Egyptian (1954), Betrayed (1954),
and Chief Crazy Horse (1955).
An independent
film darling, Ross made her debut in STRANGER INSIDE, winning an IFP Gotham Award for
Best Breakthrough
and an independent Spirit Award nomination for
Best Debut
Performance.
Her
film work includes THE GREEN MILE, A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,
and TOMBSTONE, to name a few, but she is perhaps
best known for playing Trixie in the critically acclaimed television drama DEADWOOD,
and was nominated for a SAG Award ® for Outstanding
Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2007.
Much like last year
and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office
performance and overall
film quality of the six major studios (
and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the
best and worst studios of 2011.
Best of all, besides the
performances and the
film itself, was the music.
Eddie Redmayne was
good, but the
film was more like a
good BBC Masterpiece Theater show
and his
performance, not great.
Ultimately, there's little wrong with You Don't Know Jack
and the
performances alone make it worth seeing, but it's a
good film that never quite rises to great.
The
film's padded - out vibe is compounded by an assortment of oddly incongruous subplots, with the
best and most apt example of this everything revolving around Dylan's Alzheimer's - afflicted father (Richard Jenkins, in an admittedly stirring
performance).
Slumdog is a
good film and an appealing
film with some lovely
performances but it's not a great
film: it's too sentimental
and predictable for that.
The
film is entertaining for what it is,
and it's one of those 80's
films that really stand out due to a
good story, wonderful
performances and great effects.
The
best performances lie with the supporting players (aside from Umbers, who's so dull that you'd think he was one of the many statues you see throughout the
film),
and the finest one comes from Tom Wilkinson, playing a twice - divorced man who sets his sights on Stella, knowing full
well she'd be in it just for the money.
With it being even longer,
and lacks some adventure, the
film has
good performances, thrills
and a strong story making it somewhat an improvement
and somewhat not.