Sentences with phrase «great dramatic actor»

Will he be hamming his performance up to batshit crazy levels of hilarity, or showing signs of the once great dramatic actor that won an Academy Award?

Heath Ledger plays the least likely priest since Sean Penn donned a collar in We're No Angels, though his acting is worse (Penn, albeit a great dramatic actor, hit an all - time low with that film).

A lot of comedians and great dramatic actors are fans of The Room, so we ended up getting this incredible cast.

Not exact matches

The cameo performances by Helen Mirren (as a doctor), Vanessa Redgrave (a piano teacher) and Patricia Clarkson (the victim's mother), among others, reveals Mr. Penn to be a great director of actors with a mind - reading ability to discover a character's truth in the tiniest dramatic nuances.

The sad part of this is that you have great actors like Theron and even Hemsworth, who come across as overly dramatic.

It was good to see her in Lost In Translation, and hopefully there will be more roles on the way, as I'm convinced that such a great comedic performer has enormous potential as a dramatic actor.

Youngster Liam James holds his own against some great actors as the perpetually awkward wallflower, while Steve Carell plays against type in a role that proves he may be a stronger dramatic actor than a comedian.

Ruffalo, one of the great dramatic film actors of his age, has never been, to put it charitably, the funniest screen presence, but he acquits himself admirably.

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).

Released: December 1 Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie Director: James Franco (The Sound and the Fury) Why it's great: There are no half - measures with Tommy Wiseau, the failed actor / secret millionaire behind the notoriously awful cult drama The Room, and there are no half - measures in The Disaster Artist, James Franco's dramatic telling of the film's bizarre backstory.

We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their «big» moments — ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity.

In the past, both actors have proven to not only be great comedic actors, as Scott has starred in Step Brothers and Party Down and Robinson has had major roles in Pineapple Express and This is the End, but also talented dramatic actors.

Not only does it begin with an account of how bits of movie dialogue (from «Rio Bravo,» «His Girl Friday») have entered her life, and the lives of her friends and colleagues, but it then segues into a great quotation from Steve Roman on SCTV (playing Juan Cortez, the first Puerto Rican Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the dramatic television series, «There's Justice for Everybody»): «It's got good actors, and that spells good acting.»

The best comedic actors are often relegated to a very particular box, one that pushes us to act totally dumbfounded when they happen to deliver a great dramatic performance.

He has surprisingly great range as a comedic and dramatic actor, although he rarely chooses to put his talent to effective use.

Both actors have such adult intensity that their participation in a juvenile fantasy (replete with simultaneous hood - flipping and at least a half dozen dramatic dives from great heights, along with the aforementioned self - satisfied libertarianism) becomes a source of bizarre fascination — for a little while, anyway.

And it's in the final scenes of the film — in which Jenkins knows he's laid the groundwork, trusts his actors and allows the emotions of what's unsaid to provide the dramatic thrust — that «Moonlight» makes its greatest impact.

Each actor is great, and Stiller is particularly strong in a role that allows him to show off his dramatic chops.

Transferring to this, one, as a comedic actor, you watch people like the great Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Jamie Foxx, that started out comedians and ended up doing really dramatic roles.

Steve Carell adds himself to the long list of distinguished comedic actors who have made the crossover to dramatic acting with terrific results, Alan Arkin yet again shines as one of the all time great character actors and Toni Collette excels as the emotional core of the film.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

Although he's a tremendous dramatic actor (just look to Prisoners for proof of that), so long as the future installments are as great as this, I guess I wouldn't mind seeing him ride this train until retirement.

Many performers from Saturday Night Live have gone on to have great success beyond the show, but even if they make the transition to the big screen, it's not easy for a comedian to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor.

I believe this was the first exposure I had to the actor, so there are two great reasons to check out this dramatic outing.

«I like actors with great comic timing in dramatic parts.

The performances are excellent throughout (Spacey and Irons are great, and Quinto continues to impress as a dramatic big - screen actor) and the film looks great, but almost all the other choices are nearly disastrous.