Sentences with phrase «comic performance»

At least the film has a number of surprisingly inspired comic performances by actors best known for their dramatic work.

She delivered a great comic performance and she looked gorgeous.

It features so many tour de force comic performances.

She gives a spirited comic performance and really goes for it, making a memorable first impression on audiences.

The result is a film that offers some big laughs, great comic performances, but never hits its stride.

I remain infatuated by the brilliant Walton Goggins in, for my money, one of the very best comic performances of Emmy ® season 2017.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953): It's known more than anything for its now - iconic performance of «Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend,» but there's so much more here, including great comic performances from Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe.

In «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» that means Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, and Tilda Swinton, but the highlight is a fresh face: Ralph Fiennes, delivering his finest comic performance as the titular hotel's ludicrously haughty, insecure concierge.

Julia Roberts delivers one of her best comic performances in Runaway Bride.

Interestingly, here Eddie Murphy works largely without his seemingly requisite wisecracks and expletives, yet produces arguably the finest comic performance of his career.

I didn't see this when it was released, but it's now on Starz, and all I can say is it is very funny — with some terrific comic performances by a raft of very talented actresses.

Enjoyable, sharply - observed satire with a great script and strong comic performances from the entire cast.

Ivan Reitman's genetic engineering - themed odd couple comedy may have aged about as well as Danny DeVito's ponytail, but there's an innocent charm to Arnie's first proper comic performance which lingers nearly 30 years on.

Kate O'Flynn turns in a broad comic performance as Bridget's hostile new boss, Alice Peabody, whose solution to everything is more cat videos.

Rogen and Franco's interplay is familiar and intermittently funny, but the film's stand - out comic performance comes from Randall Park as the brattish, sensitive, scheming Kim.

A blackly comic performance by Colin Farrell provides the emotional anchor for Yorgos Lanthimos's atmospheric horror - thriller.

Much of the comedy comes from the actual complications this technological change caused, including his villainous costar, the hideously voiced Jean Hagen, in a brilliant comic performance.

An even larger surprise is Murphy who hasn't really tried to give a fun comic performance since 1999's Bowfinger.

Dan Stevens turns in a vibrant comic performance as Charles Dickens in this drama about writerly inspiration that plays like a smarter Shakespeare in Love.

It's all fitfully amusing, thanks in large part to Bouchard's richly comic performance, but the movie is never very involving, and it overstays its welcome by a good, long while.

Rock, who seems to have studied every nuance of Beatty's Oscar - nominated comic performance — is surprisingly appealing in what is often a straight role.

His all - out comic performance contrasted with his work in that same year's Clean and Sober, in which he played a recovering drug addict.

Hill delivers a smooth comic performance, registering incredulity and squeamishness.

The style often features broad comic performances against a background of despair and defeatism; these were not comedies with happy endings which seems to be a contradiction.

And it has to be said that the child actors playing the kids, Megan (Scarlett Estevez) and Dylan (Owen Vaccaro) actually give real comic performances.

Directed by Bateman in his first solo effort and written by Andrew Dodge, the film is an irreverant jape with its fair share of standout comic performances.

Every single character is a scene - stealer, even if they only have a few lines of dialogue, and Ralph Fiennes absolutely commands the screen in an all - time classic comic performance.

But while the plot provides plenty of twists and turns, it's really just a framework for some of the most perfect comic performances put on celluloid.

Well, he really found it in 2012 during the «21 Jump Street» reboot, where the cardboard cut - out with matinee idol good looks suddenly came alive in front of the camera with an inspired and lovable comic performance.

Plus, Kunis, Bell and Hahn have proven equally great at comic performances over the years, so it has the makings of a seriously fun time at the theater.

Chau gives a brash yet heartfelt comic performance, but Waltz is frankly a misfire: a sneery sub-gangster approach that could have done with a firmer directorial hand.

To these ears, though, even McDormand's nastiest zingers too often come off as strained, self - satisfied shtick — not something you could say about her marvelous comic performance in «Fargo,» which won her a lead actress Oscar 21 years ago.

Beyond a perfectly thick comic performance from Alden Ehrenreich, the best thing about the Coens» uneven farce is its backlot backdrop — a world the movie perfectly captures, through one extravagant detail after another.

and gives a radically different comic performance as the verbose and frequently naked record producer Harry in Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash.

Up to and including the film's legendary final line, spoken by the great Joe E. Brown as Jerry's chief suitor, Wilder's sex comedy confuses sexual definitions on a regular basis and even obliterates them at times, most noticeably in the case of Lemmon's fearless comic performance.

She gives an almost comic performance, alternating between twitchy Kristen Wiig — like dismissals and a furious thousand - yard stare that burns a hole through the lens.

On the other hand, few actors of any size or pigmentation have managed the kind of indelible, stereotype - busting comic performance he assayed in his best known film, 2003's «Bad Santa.»

Nice comic performances from Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins and Nicole Kidman.

Meanwhile, two for - the - ages comic performances from Depp and Murray suffer from Academy bias.

It's a very funny movie regardless — this is the best comic performance Franco has delivered since Spring Breakers — and the scenes and moments from The Room are re-created with loving attention to detail.

Maguire as director maintains a lively comic pace and although some of the gags and set - ups have a distinctly sitcom feel, and the famous old diary has been unsatisfactorily replaced with a vague blog - type tablet device, Zellweger continues to give a bravura comic performance as Bridget.

So we'll go further and note that's also one of the studio's funniest blockbusters, with game comic performances from everyone involved (Goldblum is a special gas).

Within it, M. Gustave (a note - perfect Ralph Fiennes in a precise comic performance), the hotel's charmingly foppish and genteelly profane concierge, takes a young lobby boy (Tony Revolori) under his wing.