Sentences with phrase «less powerful actors»

She exemplifies the path to power preferred by the global technocratic elite — rooted in a rigorous control of one's image and calculated disregard for norms that restrain less powerful actors.

Not exact matches

Upon release there were many mutterings about deliciously unhinged villain Javier Bardem, and less distinct murmurs about Judi Dench's powerful performance as M. Both actors have won before, and were widely considered long shots.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Clooney gets less from his actors, but he has an eye for casting, using his powerful friends from past films to help fill roles.