Sentences with phrase «excellent actors»

He is helped enormously by three excellent actors giving their all in the lead roles.

WHY: Despite boasting a pair of excellent actors in Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman, «Last Knights» is a disappointingly generic medieval fantasy flick that's missing much of what makes the genre so enjoyable.

It's impossible to imagine Disney's Beauty and the Beast without Lumiere, Cogsworth or Mrs. Potts, and with top notch digital effects and the voices of excellent actors like Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellan and Emma Thompson playing them, these characters vividly come to life, as do Madame de Garderobe (Audra McDonald), Chip (Nathan Mack), Plumette (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) and the newly - created Maestro Cadenza (Stanley Tucci), a composer transformed into a harpsichord.

Although I enjoy spy flicks and also consider Redford (The Last Castle, The Horse Whisperer) and Pitt (Snatch, Fight Club) as excellent actors, the fact that Tony Scott (Enemy of the State, Crimson Tide) is the director had me lowering expectations going into this film.

Yes, there are some clichés like a small child singing an eerie song, but they've still got a great hook with the labyrinth house designed to cage ghosts plus excellent actors with Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, and Sarah Snook.

More often than not, the message is stated to the audience by excellent actors in small, underwritten parts.

Once again, Russell puts fascinating, flawed characters on display, which the perfectly cast and uniformly excellent actors build into a close - knit universe to which we have boundless access.

Even though there are relatively small parts for everyone else involved, we get some great performances from excellent actors like Mark Wahlberg, Taraji P. Henson, Jimmi Simpson, Ray Liotta and William Fichtner.

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.

Cedar is mostly interested in the father - son dynamics, and he cast excellent actors.

Two - handers, plays or films with only two characters, require two excellent actors who can carry the film.

Joining him as co-leads in the cast are two other excellent actors: Martin Csokas and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Solondz takes another hilariously pitch - black exploration of human behaviour with a film populated by excellent actors playing seriously messed - up characters.

Continuing the welcome trend toward more female - focused efforts, this new NBC series features three excellent actors long overdue for lead roles: Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Mae Whitman (Parenthood), and Retta (Parks And Rec).

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you want to see two excellent actors battle each other as only resentful father and sons can

Swinton and Hiddleston, already two of the most consistently excellent actors around, deliver cooly detached, underplayed performances, wearing the world - weariness of their characters in uniquely contrasting ways.

And then there are Takeshi Kitano as Chief Aramaki and Juliette Binoche as the doctor responsible for Major's transformation, two excellent actors tasked with carrying scenes dead before arrival.

Others in the cast, including such excellent actors as Christopher Walken and John Turturro, give surprisingly weak performances.

One can't say for sure if ad - libbing was encouraged, but the interaction between the uniformly excellent actors feels natural and unforced.

Well, actually, every day is probably a great day to be Viola Davis, because she gets to wake up each morning as one of the most reliably excellent actors currently working.

Godzilla gets a lot right, hiring excellent actors even in bit parts to sell every inch of the story, focusing on characters, the emotional stakes of the leads and even embracing the atomic - age fears and allegories that the Toho Studio films utilized while putting a modern - spin on them — the casualties and cost of life within such disasters (there is a 9 / 11-esque disaster - porn tinge to the film, but it's certainly not as thoughtless as it is in «Man Of Steel»).

At its core, however, «American Crime Story» is just a really excellent actor's showcase that features award - worthy performances by Sarah Paulson (as lead prosecutor Maria Clark), Courtney B. Vance (as flashy defense attorney Johnny Cochrane) and Sterling K. Brown (as Clark's second chair, Christopher Darden), among others.

Jay Ryan (Vincent) and Kristin Kreuk (Catherine) are excellent actors and the chemistry between them is unique.

Writer - director Derek Cianfrance knew he was dealing with a story full of coincidences when he adapted M.L. Stedman's novel The Light Between Oceans, so he avoided melodrama by holding himself and his excellent actors in check.

L.A. Noire on the Nintendo Switch brings back the best of this criminal investigation game, as its excellent actor performances and facial animation still look impressive.

This is unfortunate because the plot is an interesting one and the cast consist of some excellent actors.

An excellent actor himself, he visits the story as a remarkably awkward pastor turning a funeral service into a nitwit farce.

A throwback to «60s romance thrillers (and appropriately set in the «60s itself), Hossein Amini's The Two Faces of January throws three excellent actors — Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac, and Kirsten Dunst — into a dizzying, dangerous love triangle set in sun - drenched Greece.

Certainly, the excellent actors here represents some of the best African - American talent in Hollywood.

(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.)

plummer and mcgregor are excellent actors and this sounds like a nice father / son story.

And while the casting debate is a non-starter (not only is Jordan an excellent actor, but he's a great choice for the role), the latest trailer doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that «Fantastic Four» is going to be any better than its predecessors.

When challenged by a director or the role Harrison Ford can be an excellent actor.

Visnjic had limited opportunity, a shame as he is an excellent actor.

The rest of the trouble comes with Crudup, who I believe is an excellent actor.

For all the excellent actors on hand throughout Legend — David Thewlis shines as business manager Leslie Pain, and rival gangster Charlie Richardson (Paul Bettany) has some choice scenes as well — none can match Hardy's head - turning two - pronged assault.

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.

@davebautista is a loyal friend and excellent actor.

Edward Norton is an excellent actor in his own right.

Best - case scenario: Hiddleston is an excellent actor, and his surprise performance last fall at the Wheatland Music Festival showed he can carry Williams» music, which he'll be singing for real in the film.

A film with a long, troubled history like Steve Jobs offers plenty of risk, but Fassbender is an excellent actor, Boyle a fine director, and the prospect of Lisa Brennan - Jobs» involvement makes it a risk worth taking.

Hopefully, that changes soon because the film looks like a promising gothic Victorian - era thriller with Nighy and another excellent actor on the rise, Olivia Cooke.

A great script, excellent actors, perfect pacing and a terrific final twist make this a must - see movie.

It includes working with excellent actors, I have learned a lot, gained valuable experience.

Martin Freeman brings with him a natural likability, in part because he's an excellent actor, and in part because he carries a fair amount of positive baggage.

Kevin Kline was perfectly decent as Maurice but then he's an excellent actor so you'd expect nothing less.

Ford and Pfeiffer are excellent actors and while the script isn't up to their talents, they do the best they can with what little there is from veteran actor and first - time screenwriter Clark Gregg (Choke).

Nunn was an excellent actor and had a long career in film, and we remember his role in «Regarding Henry» very well.