Sentences with phrase «flashier role»

Michelle Pfeiffer is equally good in the less flashy role of Ruth Madoff.

Russell and Leigh are also really good in less flashy roles, especially the latter.

Julie Christie has a less flashy role, but she adds class, as does James Mason in his role as the agent of Heaven out to set things right.

This may be the first time that DiCaprio was genuinely free to be the most energetic and commanding character in a film, not left to share his spotlight with a veteran actor in a flashier role.

A solid central performance by Winona Ryder and a captivating wild turn by Angelina Jolie in the yarn's flashiest role.

I'm giving Chastain the edge, for now, because the entire movie rests on her shoulders, but Tonya Harding may prove the flashier role in the end.

Joe Pantaliano has one of the flashier roles as Guido the Killer Pimp, who enjoys honey in his tea (Brickman's deft touches are another joy).

Cranston gets all the best lines and flashiest role, as Sal talks endlessly and is the type to fill every moment with chatter.

All of those supporting - actor awards have been unanimously given to Sam Rockwell, who has a bigger, flashier role than Dafoe's — and whose character arc, from witless racist antagonizer all the way to slightly better person, seems to appeal to awards - voting bodies in search of some hope for those currently lost to Trumpism.

Though James has the flashier role, Dave has the more difficult one — keeping a straight face through his brother's in - character hysterics and tethering Planet Tommy to reality, acting as Tommy's go - between to less - deluded characters and the audience's sympathetic stand - in.

Roberts also has the flashier role as motor - mouthed fuck - up Paulie, who's always getting his cousin Charlie into one jam or another, but Rourke's the one who makes the deeper impression.

The cast does a good job of bringing the material to life in a believable fashion, particularly the leads; the reserved Hutcherson is likable and Robb excels in the flashier role.

Meanwhile, Robert Newton shines in the flashy role of Long John Silver, the boat's wooden - legged chef of suspicious character.

When pushed to decide, we'll give the edge to Janney, who has the flashier role in I, Tonya and the most Golden Globe nominations (six, to Metcalf's three).

In some ways, she has become a bit of a parody of herself thanks to the big, flashy roles that she takes on that inevitably lead to yet another Oscar nomination (Florence Foster Jenkins and Into the Woods, I'm looking at you).

Danny McBride is really funny in the film's flashiest role, but in terms of acting, Craig Robinson kind of runs away with the film.

Rockwell sinks his teeth into the flashiest role.

The trio of young actors at the center also just do what's required of them, and it remains to be seen if Radcliffe can really act, for he's quite handily upstaged by the livelier Grint and Watson, who admittedly have the flashier roles.

As far as acting, I honestly thought Zylberstein did more with the less flashy role.

Miller gets to play the flashy role of a flamboyantly gay character inhabiting a time period where this was not a popular thing (the film appears to take place in Pittsburgh sometime in the 80's, though a specific time is never hammered down), and handles it well, but it's Watson in particular who needed a grand performance in his first major role of her post Potter career.

Riz Ahmed ought to get a welcome - to - the - club nod, though John Turturro had the flashier role on HBO's murder mini-series — which was a critical hit, but didn't catch summer buzz in the way it might have had Stranger Things not come along around the same time and stolen everyone's thunder.