Sentences with phrase «better roles in»

Damon gets into his groove quickly as Bourne, and this is shaping up to be one of his better roles in recent years.

It's a balancing act that Foxx pulls off flawlessly, the sort of performance that makes you wonder why he doesn't land better roles in Hollywood every year.

Note to Fanning: Without better roles in saner films, the same is true for the movie business.

Likewise, Albert Finney has one of his better roles in years as the small - time lawyer who hires Brockovich and reluctantly goes to the mat against the giant company.

He began earning better roles in the mid - to late»40s, mostly villainous, and went on to become one of the busiest supporting players on television in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in small - screen Western fare ranging from Gene Autry to Lancer.

One of his better roles in this vein was as Unger, the vengeful football playing «screw» in the Burt Reynolds prison comedy The Longest Yard (1974).

Meanwhile, the supporting cast of millions will remain in pecuniary thrall, hoping for a better role in the promised but not yet budgeted sequel.

They help restore those lost feelings of connection and meaning by providing opportunities for us to play a better role in determining where the foods we eat come from, how our food is produced, and how it gets to our table.

Although there have been disagreements with Mourinho over Pogba's best role in the team there remains a good working relationship.

Not only Asian women play the best role in feminine wife, but also Eastern European women as Russian or Hispanic women like Spanish, Mexican or Latino, as well as South African women, they are characterized as the best women on the world.

PG American Made review: Tom Cruise back in pilot seat for his best role in years

Witherspoon got one of her best roles in this film, and really does carry it despite her young age.

Good roles in such A-films as Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944) and The Song of Bernadette (1944) aside, she was usually mired in such parts as her «road - company Ouspenskaya» gypsy woman in Columbia's B - melodrama Cry of the Werewolf (1944).

The supporting players are also brilliant ranging from Tyrese Gibson in his best role in decades since «Baby Boy» (2001), along with the great Vondie Curtis - Hall as a streetwise pawnbroker, and R&B songstress Mary J, Blige as an angelic parishioner at Rev. Cobbs» Holy Resurrection Baptist Church.

Joseph just didn't have a very good role in it.

She has had a strange career where it's obvious she knows how to pick good roles in small but strong films like this one, but then when she tries to go for a payday we get stuff like Catwoman.

Tellingly, just as DiCaprio's best role in the last decade was as a charming man - child in «Catch Me If You Can,» Portman's best turn was playing the manic pixie dream girl in Zach Braff's «Garden State.»

A bent cop movie with style, swagger and a sometimes questionable approach to characterisation, Oren Moverman's latest at least gifts Woody Harrelson one of his best roles in years.

If nothing else, this light, accessible quasi-indie gives Al Pacino his best role in a number of years.

Tony Todd easily delivers one of his best roles in his career as Duke.

It's always a pleasure to see Ed Harris and it's fantastic see Michelle Pfeiffer sink her teeth into one of her best roles in years.

We first meet Lady Bird on the return leg of a college visitation weekend, squabbling with her demanding, often hyper - critical mother (Laurie Metcalf, in one of her best roles in years) during the car ride back.

Alex Withrow runs down Fichtner's best roles in this entry into his ongoing series highlighting character actors (the whole series is worth reading).

The first film Gerwig has solitarily written and directed (this is not, as many have claimed, her inaugural turn behind the camera; she shares a directorial credit with Joe Swanberg on 2008's Nights And Weekends), Lady Bird arranges an even better entrance for its own irresistible heroine: Squabbling with her combative, witheringly disapproving mother (Laurie Metcalf, granted her best role in ages) while driving around to look at colleges, Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) decides she's had just about enough conversation, opens her passenger - side car door, and rolls out.

It's a personal film written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, starring Susan Sarandon in her best role in years.

For all the darkness, young actresses might get some of their best roles in these films.

MS: I've got what I consider five of your best roles in films that fans may have missed but are definitely worth seeing.

For 20th Century Women, Mills is inspired by his mother and, even though there's a whiff of Dorothea being a less eccentric version, it provides Annette Bening with one of her best roles in years and the result is a luminous performance.

Marjorie Prime has been called Hamm's best role in years.

The provocative story of anger, fear, and race relations in contemporary Los Angeles also provides Ryan Phillippe with one of his best roles in years, maybe the best... Read More»

Robot & Frank: Frank Langella finds one of his career - best roles in this story of an old man suffering from the beginning stages of dementia who is given a robot as part of his health care.

He says he was «moody» and it didn't matter to him that he got «a good paycheck» or played «one of the best roles in the world.»

Gere delivers a quiet performance as George that is among the best roles in his career considering his limited range.

Did the stars who haven't had a good role in decades bee - line to the directors present (Lynch, Fincher, Scorsese, etcetera) or have they given up but for anniversary shindigs to honor their past glories?

In «The Dark Horse,» he returns to New Zealand to take on one of the best roles in his career.

Unspooling some thirty years after the first film, Ryan Gosling is K, a replicant who hunts rogue replicants and, like Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford, excellent in his best role in decades) before him, retires his quarry using deadly means.

Hanson gets quality performances from a very talented cast, with Collette very effective in her vulnerability, and Shirley MacLaine engaging in one of her best roles in years.

Ryan Reynolds once again gets the best role in a boring movie and makes the most of it.

Burn After Reading is blessed with solid casting, as Coen spouse and frequent costar Frances McDormand shines even among bigger stars like Clooney (Leatherheads, Michael Clayton), his third Coen collaboration, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich (his best role in years).

Complicating a tense situation further, a aggressive biographer who's intent on chronicling Joe's life (Christian Slater's best role in years) has stalked them all the way to Stockholm.

Peter Sarsgaard plays Milgram, and even he seems aware that this is his best role in years, relishing in his character's charm and playfulness.

As Meyerowitz, Hoffman is perfectly cast, in what might be his best role in 20 - odd years.

Filmmaker turns a typical whodunnit into a fractured crime thriller — and gives Sharon Stone her best role in ages

Spy Kids also gives Danny Trejo (Reindeer Games, Skippy) his best role in a long time.

Kingsman places a toddler in peril from its mother and makes Michael Caine the victim of what he does not smell (Iocaine powder in his bourbon); but on the bright side, it does give Mark Strong his best role in years.

Alongside Lawrence, De Niro stands out with a surprisingly effective turn as a middle - aged loser with good intentions that represents his best role in years.

Considering this glocal framework, you will be able to understand better your role in the context of human rights education and action.

Yeah, well the role in the community is very strong, but the world in the community depends on who you are talking about... it could be someone who preaches some kind of violent overthrow of the society or somebody who wants to start giving breakfast to children or somebody who says «hey, this would be a really good way to deal drugs... so the idea is to say, «what is the purpose?»

When the capital is invested in the most thrilling manner, these usually play a good role in boosting your financial status from your own creative and innovative ideas while you are still at school.

Though adopting a dog offers many mental benefits, recent research conveys that these animals also play a good role in developing a healthy lifestyle for their owners.