Sentences with phrase «flashy role of»

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.

Comedy Central stand - up Carlos Mencia, who isn't easy to recognize behind silly hair and mustache, does okay in the flashy role of hotel connection «Uncle Tito.»

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

Not exact matches

Indiana was leading at halftime by three, but then, VanVleet changed the momentum of the game using high - screen and roles and a mixture of in - and - out moves coupled with flashy passing between defenders to get the Shockers rolling.

There has to be several players of high caliber and for that there has to be a farm - system and youth system that will provide great young players, or more money and luck to get players who can play those key thankless roles of being competent, while the flashy ones get the credit.

Auro had some beautifully flashy moves but I thought he did nt do an amazing job performing his positional role, his defensive play leaves much to be desired and he got sucked inside instead of operating on the the wing like Morrow.

«World War Z» is packed with a lot of talented actors in small supporting roles (including James Badge Dale, David Morse and Peter Capaldi), but it's essentially the Brad Pitt Show, and he's one of the few guys who can pull off such a star - centric performance without making it feel flashy.

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).

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.

The role isn't just a flashy cameo like Robert Downey Jr. «s over-the-top portrayal of Carl's wife's other ex-husband, but rather, Johansson is working with a layered supporting player that in no way relies on a famous face, but rather honesty and how she enhances our main man.

In the flashier villain role, Peter Dinklage manages to neither be menacing nor funny while seemingly striving for the offbeat success of Gadget's Rupert Everett or The Shaggy Dog's Robert Downey Jr..

Carell, who began to shed his «gross - out - comedy - actor» tag in 2014's «Foxcatcher», continues to demonstrate his skill as one of the most exciting dramatic actors working today while Gosling is on fine, flashy & quick - fire form in his best role since «Crazy Stupid Love» and a superb supporting cast includes an always excellent Rafe Spall and «New Girl's Max Greenfield who delivers a brilliant turn as a nauseatingly hilarious mortgage broker.

«I, Tonya,» a whirlwind biopic of disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) and her disputed role in one of the major sports scandals of the 1990s, is a flashy, glib and strident treatment of the cycles of abuse, media exploitation and simplification, and the subjectivity of truth in general.

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.

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).

Black Panther doesn't quite have an actor who fits that profile (Forest Whitaker comes closest, but his role within the film is probably too minor, while Lupita Nyong» o's role might be too quiet to attract Academy voters), but it does have an up - and - coming movie star, in a major supporting role, who gives the kind of flashy - but - deep performance that actors love.

Husband - wife TV comedy veterans Will Arnett («Arrested Development») and Amy Poehler («Saturday Night Live») have fun in the roles of Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, a flashy opposing American pairs team, who are way too close for a brother and sister.

On paper, Albert Nobbs may have all the trappings of middlebrow fare — period setting, literary origins, flashy role for a heavyweight veteran thespian — but it burns with the repressed heartbreak of Merchant - Ivory at their most powerful.

The 2012 tactical role - playing game brought together characters from Namco Bandai, Sega and Capcom in a flashy, funny, almost completely nonsensical battle for the fate of all realities.

The role of loyal and nice nurse Phil is far from the film's flashiest (not surprisingly, that distinction goes to Cruise's), but it's one of those critical parts that, if done completely wrong, could short - circuit the entire film.

It was also nice to see Josh Lucas in a lead role, especially in front of the award - winning Foxx, but his talents are wasted in exchange for flashy visuals and a talking stealth fighter; Knight Rider with wings anyone?

Carell's flashy, ostentatious performance is just the sort of thing Academy voters fawn over, and while his positioning in the lead category isn't as patently insane as Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, it's still a clear supporting role that ended up pushing out actors like Ralph Fiennes and David Oyelowo, both of whom were the actual leads of their respective films.

For the wild and flashy show cars automakers built in the 1990s, reality turned out to be one of the most important concepts of all.The role of the concept car changed in the 1990s.

Beat Cop casts the player in the role of Jack Kelly, a flashy detective who gets busted down to walking a...