Sentences with phrase «great performances of the actors»

The character models and animations are the most realistic I've seen in a game, made all the more believable by the great performances of the actors.

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Ronan was a mass - murdering racist, played by Lee Pace, a great actor whose performance was lost in pounds of blue make - up.

Yul Brynner, the great American actor who played the part of the King of Siam and devoted much of his career to The King and I, was known to prepare for each performance by trying to push down the brick wall at the back of the theater.

And a cast to dream of down to the smallest roles, most of the actors giving the performance of their lifetime: J.Lo is hardly recognizable as the irrelevant pop singer of recent years, doing a great job as a female cop tempted by the attracting opposites of bank robber George Clooney, who was never better than here.

Anchored with a lovely, subtle sad eyed performance by the beautiful Keri Russell and a cast of terrific comedic prodigy actors, including the great Andy Griffith in his last film appearance as the crusty diner owner.

Full of really great and odd performances, it contains many great actors who usually take on smaller and yet substantial roles such as Peter Sarsgaard as a grave digging kleptomaniac, Ian Holm as Andrew's psychiatrist father, who had put his son into a lithium infused haze, and strangely enough a cameo from rapper Method Man as a bellhop.

A great cast of actors deliver great performances most notably Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead) and Tom Atkins (Lethal Weapon).

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.

«With Daniel's ability to deliver intense, nuanced performances, we knew we had found yet another great actor to share the screen with some of our biggest heroes.»

Not many will debate against that Woody Harrelson is one of the greatest actors of his time (this year alone he has appeared in a wide variety of films and given a pair of incredible performances in War for the Planet of the Apes and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), but his portrayal of Texan Lyndon B. Johnson in the biopic about the polarizing political figure simply titled LBJ (directed by Rob Reiner of A Few Good Men fame among other widely regarded classics) is a mixed bag.

Most of all, it's a great performance piece for Pullman, an actor who I've hoped would find better material in recent years.

Irons» performance is the film's one stirring component, proof of what a great actor can do to shore up a creaky film.

His argument is too lengthy to quote in full, but he's decidedly a fan of Acting, not of Great Acting, defining the latter as ostentatious performances that encourage viewers to identify with the actor rather than the character.

That's not to say the performance wasn't great and that the film wasn't one of the best of the year — it just wasn't the type of film that garners awards for its actors as it was far more concerned with docudrama authenticity than it was with giving its actors full - bore characters to develop.

«With Daniel «s ability to deliver intense, nuanced performances, we knew we had found yet another great actor to share the screen with some of our biggest heroes,» the movie's producer Kevin Feige shared in a statement about the 36 - year - old actor.

While he gets some great performances from his actors, he doesn't have much of a screenplay to work with.

Best Picture: (tie) «Gravity» and «Her» Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, «Gravity» Runner up: Spike Jonze, «Her» Best Actor: Bruce Dern, «Nebraska» Runner up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, «12 Years a Slave» Best Actress: (tie) Cate Blanchett, «Blue Jasmine» and Adele Exarchopoulos, «Blue is the Warmest Color» Best Supporting Actor: (tie) Jared Leto, «Dallas Buyers Club,» James Franco, «Spring Breakers» Best Supporting Actress: Lupita Nyong» o, «12 Years a Slave» Runner up: June Squibb, «Nebraska» Best Foreign Language Film: «Blue Is the Warmest Color» Runner up: «The Great Beauty» Best Animation: «Ernest & Celestine» Runner up: «The Wind Rises» Best Documentary: «Stories We Tell» Runner up: «The Act of Killing» Best Screenplay: Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, «Before Midnight» Runner up: Spike Jonze, «Her» Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, «Gravity» Runner up: Bruno Delbonnel, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Best Editing: Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger, «Gravity» Runner up: Shane Carruth and David Lowery, «Upstream Color» Best Production Design: K.K. Barrett, «Her» Runner up: Jess Gonchor, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Best Music Score: T Bone Burnett, «Inside Llewyn Davis» Runner up: Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett, «Her» Douglas Edwards Independent / Experimental Film / Video Award: «Cabinets of Wonder: Films and a Performance by Charlotte Pryce»

There's lots of twists and turns — including a couple that may be given away in this trailer — but Alvarez does a great job grounding everything in the actors» performances while ratcheting up the excitement and fear in the cramped house.

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).

Ben Kinglsley, Linda Fiorentino, Greg Kinnear, all of these are highly able actors that have given great performances in other films, but none of these (and, yes, that includes the almost always flawless Kingsley) gave me anything to enjoy from here.

Likewise, Rooney Mara gives a memorable performance as the grief - stricken M, her single moment in the kitchen with a pie being one of the greatest scenes of the year, and one of the best examples of an actor's commitment to their part.

King wrote both the novella, Cycle of the Werewolf, and the much better named screenplay, but it's all completely ruined by awful special effects and either ham - fisted or lackluster performances by the likes of Gary Busey and the late Corey Haim, the kind of actors who were great in the right roles.

It's got some kinks and never rises to anything of substantial merit, but the twisty nature of the plot is entertaining, and the great performances from the three actors help it rise above its minimalistic trappings.

But I haven't heard too many mentions of possible great performances for Best Supporting Actor.

Every year I hope for a documentary about a writer of impact, both artistically and politically, a film in which stock footage is laid under a vocal performance of the author's prose, rendered by some great and richly - timbred actor.

It's rare these days to read an article about Robert de Niro without seeing him referred to as the greatest actor of his generation; and rare also that the same article doesn't reel off his extraordinary performances of 20 - 30 years ago and rather skirt over the rest.

However, «Annie» does provide a good opportunity for a discussion of great performances from young actors, -LSB-...]

After winning three Academy Awards and establishing himself as one of the world's greatest living actors, Daniel Day - Lewis issued a statement last week announcing that he was retiring from acting, and that the film he recently completed, director Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, would be his last film performance.

However, «Annie» does provide a good opportunity for a discussion of great performances from young actors, and for that I turned to my friend and fellow school parent Chambers Stevens.

Movie 43: When great actors are awarded for a lifetime of performances, a credit reel is often created to showcase their finest works.

What we are excited about: Robert De Niro in a boxing movie might sound like a cliché, but you never take a performance for granted from one of the greatest actors to ever live.

It's the greatest performance of a great American actor.

And if you thought Gyllenhaal was great in «Prisoners,» you ain't seen nothing yet: the actor «carries the entire film on his shoulders, and he delivers with a smoldering internalized performance of torment that is easily his finest work.»

As much as I've respected Greene's work in the past, especially his ability to suss out great, complex performances from actors and civilians amidst various stages of playacting, I will admit to feeling a certain amount of distance from his work.

Not for nothing, «Joe» also featured Nicolas Cage's most recent convincing performance, so maybe between that and «Manglehorn» Green has entered a stage in his career where he's interested in dialing back and getting great performances out of great actors underserved by the past couple decades.

Variety's Actors on Actors series, which features two actors sitting down with one another to discuss their careers and give insight into their acting processes and performances, has been home to a countless amount of great discussions over the past couple of Actors on Actors series, which features two actors sitting down with one another to discuss their careers and give insight into their acting processes and performances, has been home to a countless amount of great discussions over the past couple of Actors series, which features two actors sitting down with one another to discuss their careers and give insight into their acting processes and performances, has been home to a countless amount of great discussions over the past couple of actors sitting down with one another to discuss their careers and give insight into their acting processes and performances, has been home to a countless amount of great discussions over the past couple of years.

I like Josh Brolin a great deal, and I particularly like his performance in «Milk» — a courageous display of against - type delicacy and ambiguity that would be a worthy winner of Best Supporting Actor honours in most years.

While all the praise seems to be on the performance of great actor, Demian Bichir, you can't take Bichir's «Carlos» without applauding a beautiful score by Alexandre Desplat or the honest and leveling work of Jose Julian or the rapturously morose finale that didn't leave a eye dry in any theater or living room across the world.

Ben Mendelsohn may be among the most gifted characters actor working today, and in «Starred Up» he gives one of his greatest performances as O'Connell's father.

Of course, playing trans can be a great boost to a cis actor's career — Eddie Redmayne earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl; Jared Leto won one for his turn as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club; and Jeffrey Tambor has taken home a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his performance as Maura Pfefferman in Transparent.

«With Daniel's ability to deliver intense, nuanced performances, we knew we had found yet another great actor to share the screen with some of our biggest heroes,» said Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige in the release, giving little hint as to his role.

Among the many great turns from familiar character actors like Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Platt, Colin Hanks and Martin Freeman in the unexpectedly great «Fargo,» there nestled a centerpiece jewel of a performance by the all - but - unknown Alison Tolman.

«Imitation» actor Benedict Cumberbatch has long been considered a likely contender for a Oscar Best Actor nomination, but some critics were less won over by the film itself, with Monitor film critic Peter Rainer, for one, giving the film a B and writing of Cumberbatch, «His performance... is a great deal more interesting than the movie.&ractor Benedict Cumberbatch has long been considered a likely contender for a Oscar Best Actor nomination, but some critics were less won over by the film itself, with Monitor film critic Peter Rainer, for one, giving the film a B and writing of Cumberbatch, «His performance... is a great deal more interesting than the movie.&rActor nomination, but some critics were less won over by the film itself, with Monitor film critic Peter Rainer, for one, giving the film a B and writing of Cumberbatch, «His performance... is a great deal more interesting than the movie.»

He's one of my favorite actors and he gives a great performance here.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Christian Borle, Falsettos Josh Groban, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 Andy Karl, Groundhog Day The Musical David Hyde Pierce, Hello, Dolly!

There's an often - true stereotype about directorial debuts by actors: they've got great performances and plenty of moments for a talented cast to make an impact, but such movies don't yet necessarily reveal any visual flair or cinematic storytelling style.

All four actors click really well as a group, but they also deliver some great individual performances — especially Aubrey Plaza, who proves she can do more than spout acerbic one - liners and mug for the camera like on «Parks and Rec» — resulting in one of the funniest, sincerest and most charming movies of the year.

A long, silent shot on Neeson's face at the end of the film, where the actor looks like he's about to crumble as his lower lip quivers ever - so - slightly, is marvelous, and a reminder that Neeson still has some great performances left in him.

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?

Though I think Gyllenhaal is easily one of the top actors working today, his performance (as great as it was) was not enough to save his film form the ping pong like pacing of the film.