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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.

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

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.

Edward Norton is an excellent actor in his own right.

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Check out this excellent rendition of actor Norman Reedus» Daryl Dixon in hunter mode!

It's an actor's dream perhaps — or their nightmare — and Johansson is excellent in the part, a slightly dazed sex doll in a black wig, vainly trying to figure out the lifeforms around her.

This amazing actor and the excellent cast all excell in this incredibly moving and tragic tale of one extraordinary man.

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.

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Surprisingly though, it's not the Oscar winning / nominated actors like Blanchett, Hilary Swank or Greg Kinnear or even the excellent supporting actors like Gary Cole, J.K. Simmons or Giovanni Ribisi that shine in this film but it's Keanu Reeves who steals the show in this impressive ensemble.

The rest of the cast is comprised of supporting actors doing excellent jobs in appearances that vary from a few scenes (Paul Dano) to a significant chunk of the running length (Emily Blunt).

The other characters are given very little in terms of depth, but the actors portraying them do an excellent job in endearing themselves to the viewer.

By contrast, the very fine character actor Catherine Keener is excellent as his no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»In the Line of Fire»).

With excellent performances by the actors really making you feel even more connected with them, great diversity in planets and enviroments, and memorable moments teeming in all over the film, there's a reason

Chastain is excellent in her leading role and has clearly made a place for herself as an authoritative, female actor.

With an excellent cast of character actors in all of the roles, as well as terrific costumes, sets and special effects, no expense was spared in getting the look and feel of the eerie world the Addams» inhabit just right.

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.

Even the voice actors are excellent in their performances.

Similarly, Alex Ross Perry's terrific third feature, «Listen Up Philip,» is a quantum leap forward from his last feature, the micro-indie «The Color Wheel,» and it's thanks in large part to great actors making the excellent script really sing.

The Irish actor, who was excellent in THE...

Taylor's strengths are clearly that of a scenarist, of exploring voyeurism, of compiling effective soundtracks, and of culling excellent performances from largely - unproven actors (David Arquette in Dream with the Fishes; Tunney here)-- he is most certainly not a thriller director, and his dedication to being one has hurt both of his films to some degree.

The constant droning of sad classical music over 70 % of the film is highly manipulative.The lead actress is toiling hard in the fields, yet at all times wears lipstick, foundation, rough and mascara.Even some of the males wear lipstick throughout.Everybody is drop dead gorgeous, no mud or gore in sight.The whole film is suffused with too much romantic zeal and sentiment.The two lead actors are excellent, but as usual Tom Sturridge is poor.He fails to convince he could ever be the dashing colonial soldier with his thin, weedy style of acting.One star

We are instead given a number of impressive, but token flashy performances by veteran actors in tough guy bit parts (Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper as irredeemable lifelong criminals) and newcomers in «dramatic stretches» (The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner who is good (again) but not as great as the star - makers would have you believe, and most notably, Blake Lively, excellent as a drug - addled neighborhood floozy).

An excellent dramatic actor can often kill it in a comedic role.

Davis was excellent on AMC's Halt and Catch Fire and in Blade Runner 2049, but Tully should push her into an entirely different realm as an actor.

(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.)

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

The actors are uniformly excellent, though it could be said that they can do these roles in their sleep by now.

It wouldn't be Cannes if the craggy - faced (and excellent) French actor Vincent Lindon did not appear in a French film.

Not the fault of the actors but when you have the excellent Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) playing an evil German officer then there is the potential to create a proper villain, a mad genius with grand plans for world domination during a time of great sorrow for the rest of the world, and instead his General Ludendorff is resorted to cracking open gas tablets that give him Hulk - like strength for no real reason and never really pays off in any way; in one scene he locks a group of people in a room with a deadly nerve gas and then decides to snort on his magic capsule before cackling and running off - camera like Jack Nicholson's Joker.

The movie features that excellent Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, who gave a performance to treasure in Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai (2002)-- but is wasted here in a minor, bad guy role.

In actor - turned - director Raúl Arévalo's debut feature The Fury of a Patient Man, the mesmerizing Ruth Díaz was rewarded for her excellent performance as a pawn (to be sacrificed) in a sinister game of revengIn actor - turned - director Raúl Arévalo's debut feature The Fury of a Patient Man, the mesmerizing Ruth Díaz was rewarded for her excellent performance as a pawn (to be sacrificed) in a sinister game of revengin a sinister game of revenge.

In the days before Andrew Garfield was Peter Parker or Eduardo Saverin, the actor made a name for himself as a blue collar worker trying to hide a dark past in John Crowley «s excellent debut «Boy A.»In the days before Andrew Garfield was Peter Parker or Eduardo Saverin, the actor made a name for himself as a blue collar worker trying to hide a dark past in John Crowley «s excellent debut «Boy A.»in John Crowley «s excellent debut «Boy A.».

Of course, in order to fully achieve this Baker must rely heavily on his actors and they reward him with excellent work.

With magnificent turns by Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons (the latter especially, who should be considered for Best Supporting Actor once we fast - forward seven months from now), and a well maintained adrenaline rush by focused directing and excellent editing, the only reason Whiplash isn't in the Top 10 is because of it's noticeably poor depiction of women and predictable emotional beats.

It's a star - studded cast filled with amazing actors and actresses that all put in excellent performances.

On top of his excellent performance in The Look of Love as Charles Raymond, he was also well received as both the writer and actor in Philomena.

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The supporting cast — especially Scott, of «Sherlock» fame — all do excellent work (the actors all called in live from a hotel room during the film's real - time shoot), but there isn't so much as a sliver of doubt that the film belongs entirely to Hardy.

The actor / writer tells a semi-autobiographical tale of growing up in California with authenticity, warmth and excellent performances from Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil film, or because the filmmaker or actors are bad people, but because the interplay of means and ends has been under - thought or misjudged, to the point where the film becomes a catalog of obscenities: a horror thrill - ride drawn from life, a thing for viewers to test themselves against while feeling just awful about Agu and his country, whatever its name is.

It's also nice to see strong actors like LeBlanc (excellent in Charles Officer and Ingrid Veninger's Nurse.Fighter.Boy) and Salmon getting good roles, even if their characters fall on the stock side of things.

Chadha has also assembled an excellent supporting cast, from legendary British thespians in Sir Michael Gambon and Simon Callow, who play General Hastings Ismay (Pug) and Cyril Radcliffe respectfully, and Indian film and theatre actor Neeraj Kabi, who provides an utterly convincing portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi.

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.

In recent times we have seen British actor Tom Wilkinson take him on somewhat controversially in Selma, as well as Bryan Cranston in his Tony - winning and Emmy - nominated turn in All the Way; both were excellent in the role, especially CranstoIn recent times we have seen British actor Tom Wilkinson take him on somewhat controversially in Selma, as well as Bryan Cranston in his Tony - winning and Emmy - nominated turn in All the Way; both were excellent in the role, especially Cranstoin Selma, as well as Bryan Cranston in his Tony - winning and Emmy - nominated turn in All the Way; both were excellent in the role, especially Cranstoin his Tony - winning and Emmy - nominated turn in All the Way; both were excellent in the role, especially Cranstoin All the Way; both were excellent in the role, especially Cranstoin the role, especially Cranston.

I don't know if that means he did an excellent job portraying that or if that meant he doesn't seem in control as the actor.

Our fanciful thinking aside, it should be noted that these images showing the excellent «Boardwalk Empire» actor in action (he was also great in «Take Shelter «-RRB- were actually snapped way back at the end of June.

Belgian actor Schoenaerts and particularly Michael Sheen are excellent in their roles.

Any DC fan will be in absolute heaven, but even general fans will appreciate the movie - quality action and visuals, the excellent voice acting from a mixture of DC regulars (Kevin Conroy's Batman, George Newbern's Superman) and iconic actors (Robert Englund, Jeffrey Combs, Alan Tudyk), and the frankly fantastic animation (particularly with faces).

The actor is one of those guys who you recognize when he comes on screen even if you can't name him, but really shines in a rare leading part here, with our review calling him «particularly excellent, affecting and funny.»