Sentences with phrase «knack for comedy»

The quality of writing and knack for comedy shines through.

Justin Bartha gets the usually thankless role of the sidekick but proves to have a knack for comedy and timing without being grating or out of place.

She's well placed to make the most of the considerable talents of her two leading ladies, both of whom have previously proved their knack for comedy.

Chloe Sevigny (Kids) is a fun Lolita, and minor roles like Bronson Dudley's eternal barfly are a scream, and they really show Buscemi's knack for comedy.

The movie's material might have been marginally successful in other hands, but this movie wasn't directed or edited with a knack for comedy.

He had an obvious knack for comedy, and so for his next project he starred alongside David Spade and Rob Schneider in the frat - boy comedy The Benchwarmers.

Not exact matches

But combined with Mike Dubin's knack for improv comedy and a 204 - word persuasive copy, the ad was enough to send chills down Gillette's spine!

Hemsworth has a knack for physical comedy, but Waititi seems to be the first Marvel director to really optimize it, sharpening some terrific gags with crackerjack editing.

He's been displaying a real knack for physical comedy lately.

Spacey's always had a knack for dark comedy, and he steals every scene he's in - and it's no surprise than when the premise is twisted in the last third, he's the boss the whole plot ends up revolving around.

Phillips is hardly a revolutionary filmmaker, but he has a knack for turning bawdy, infantile comedy concepts into entertaining crowdpleasers.

Equally adept at sober drama and over-the-top comedy, Michael Keaton has a knack for giving ordinary guys an unexpected twist.

Peele's aptitude and background in comedy has given him a knack for timing.

Indeed, she appears to have a knack for the kind of timing and verbal delivery that MacFarlane's school of comedy has traditionally demanded.

The Family is a dark comedy directed by Luc Besson, a French director who has achieved international success mainly due to his knack for Hollywood - style action flicks like La Femme Nikita, The Professional, and The Fifth Element.

Plus, Noxon definitely has a knack for mixing horror violence with comedy and romance (see: her work on the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series).

This new feature - length Comedy Central special lets us reconnect with the legendary comic and discover his knack for storytelling remains intact into his old age.

Black also praised Gosling's knack for physical comedy in the film, which sees him perform a number of tricky semi-stunts.

The series, starring Rachel Brosnahan as a housewife with a knack for standup comedy in 1958, debuted in November.

He doesn't show a knack for action sequences, and he frequently stumbles in the comedy as well, which is more an indication of a script in need of tweaking than an indictment of talent involved.

The man certainly has a knack for blending action and comedy, and this project seems like it could be a great fit.

Goode shows a knack for physical comedy here, but his character's decision to stick with Anna after she annoys him so much, destroys his car, and finds perfectly suitable alternate transportation is completely transparent.

The fellow sitcom stars, in particular, both exhibit a great knack for the kind of improvisational comedy that typically serves as the building blocks for all of Jay and Mark Duplass» films, while Sarandon can pretty much do no wrong.

8:30 am — TCM — The Apartment Wilder had a knack for combining comedy and drama into bittersweet goodness, and that's exactly what he does here, garnering Oscars for Picture, Director, and Screenplay in the process.

Between his recent foray into the realm of action in (the underrated) Nerve and his upcoming performance as Greg Sestero in his brother's upcoming Tommy Wiseau - focused film, The Disaster Artist, he may simply have a hard time turning off his knack for high drama and going back to comedy.

His breakout film Forgetting Sarah Marshall is still one of the best romantic comedies in recent memory, and he's shown with movies like Neighbors and Get Him to the Greek that he has a knack for directing sharply funny comedy.

As much as I respect the Coen brothers» more serious work, I wish they had more time to indulge their special knack for broad comedy.

Here the knack Johnson demonstrated in «The Skeleton Twins» (2014) for uneasy comedy just seems uneasy.

None of it is rocket science, but Phillips has a knack for directing comedy (he would later go on to helm 2004's fun «Starsky & Hutch») and the cast are all game for a laugh (most notably Tom Green, who pops up just often enough to plunge an entire mouse into his gob, swing a giant snake around a room, and indulge in some inter-generational snogging).

role, Johannson displays a knack for physical comedy (those undies!)

John Cusack has a knack for picking freshly written and insightful comedies that, while not always successful critically and / or commercially, are definitely unlike most comedies out there.

If 21 Jump Street revealed his knack for comic timing, this cements him as one of the most underrated comedy performers around; his faux - stupid act doesn't get old, but also manages to be oddly sympathetic.

Apatow, who deserves to be regarded as the preeminent figure in American comedy right now, has shown an uncanny knack for fostering bright young comic talent, and because he loves comics so much and is so fascinated by their process — the way John Cassavetes loved Method actors and their process — his productions tend to brim with scene - stealing supporting players, amusing non sequiturs, and running times (124 minutes in the case of The Five - Year Engagement) that few comedies in the history of moving pictures have shouldered without eventually buckling under.

His knack for improvisational comedy is the saving grace of this film, and while he didn't win the Oscar for Best Actor that year, his nomination was certainly well - deserved.

The «SNL «alumnus continues to quietly and steadily segue from sketch comedy on the small screen to feature length comedy on the big one, while still retaining her instinctive knack for hilarious shenanigans.

With a gift for creating outlandish characters and a genuine knack for physical comedy, McCarthy is a force to be reckoned with.

Paula Patton, whose character is woefully underwritten (it's never clear why the fabulously rich and worldly businessman played by Hounsou would want to stay up all night talking to her, for instance, since she has nothing to say), has a real knack for physical comedy, and Jill Scott and Adam Brody are truly hilarious.