Sentences with phrase «most thankless role»

Hopefully this film (along with Andrew Bujalski's Results) can also serve as a breakout towards many more interesting roles for Smulders, who has always shown a lot of potential but has until recently been mostly wasted on How I Met Your Mother and as Maria Hill, the most thankless role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Not exact matches

Be it Enos reprising her thankless wife role from «Gangster Squad,» to Ludi Boeken as an exposition - dumping Mossad agent, to Peter Capaldi and Ruth Negga as scientists so thankless they're literally credited as Scientists despite being central to the third act, most of the players that crop up on Pitt's travels are perfunctory at best (to say nothing of Matthew Fox, inexplicably fifth - billed in a part that's not so much a cameo as a day - player gig — presumably he has more left on the cutting room floor).

Oh, yeah: She's also an actress, best known for playing the effortlessly cool Karen Filippelli on The Office and taking on the thankless role of derailing television's most anxiety - inducing unrequited love story.

Mainstream cinema hasn't quite caught on yet, with her most prominent studio role to date a somewhat thankless part as Ben Stiller «s wife in flop comedy «The Watch.»

Bob and his boss (Amy Ryan, once again making the most of a thankless role) want to nab the biggest of the big: Pablo Escobar.

The actors all make the most of some thankless roles, and there is very solid chemistry between the three leads that supports some uninspired sequences.

Laura Dern is saddled with the thankless role of neglected wife here, and while she makes the most of her few scenes (as Dern always does), the movie is more interested in her for how Kroc treats her.

Credit must also go to rising star Elle Fanning, who makes the very most of a rather thankless role.

These aren't bad decisions, necessarily — they just don't coordinate with the dull, no - nonsense figure at the movie's core, a patriot whose most compelling problem seems to be that he has a liberal for a girlfriend (Shailene Woodley in a thankless role with an unmotivated sex scene).

David Oyelowo gets the thankless role of the station's captain, saddled with the most perfunctory of lines.

The evil corporation, Energyne, is run by a pair of cartoon sibling moguls (Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy, abysmally bad in thankless roles) who watch most of the movie unfold from the computer monitors in their high - rise headquarters, like kids waiting impatiently for their turn at the joystick.

And for magistrates, who carry out a thankless task for no pay, to be told that they have to stop tweeting or blogging about even the most mundane aspects of their role as volunteers may be a bit much.