Sentences with phrase «good character work»

First, because they're so huge and have to cater to so many people, there's almost no room for good character work, which is the center of any story.

Quieting the surrounding swirl of a Steven Spielberg prestige drama with mere gestures and huffs of breath, Day - Lewis does exactingly good character work in a film that, despite its good intentions and stately execution, occasionally borders on thumping, pedantic history lesson.

It's a stunt casting of Connery and, when compared to the source material — it's no surprise, but he's really against good character work.

While not exactly transcending the familiarity of its very predictable genre, The Ritual is a spooky, shadowy horror film with good character work, an excellent mood, some provocative themes, excellent lighting, and a scary... thing... that horror fans will love.

Malcolm and his slow but kind of actually affecting friendship with Jim is decent character work, and perhaps the only good character work at any point in those middle nine episodes.

This is some of the best character work I've seen in any movie, featuring some of the best character actors, and with a writer / director team known for endless subtle touches, it's a film you can watch again and again, and never tire of.