Sentences with phrase «give flashier performances»

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Even the flashy, linen - suited Finbar (Risteard Cooper)-- a local fella - done - good — gives an absorbing and oddly matter - of - fact performance as it appears he is one of the truest, and most distressed, believers in what he dismisses as «old cod».

This gives the large and mostly impressive cast a lot to work with, something that proves crucial to the movie's success as director John Wells seems committed to flashy performances and comical explosions above all else.

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).

She'll have some other Lead performances vying for Oscar's attention, but this seems like the bait and flashy sort of supporting turn that the Academy loves to give a prize to.

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.