Sentences with phrase «of excellent actors»

The characters are extremely well written (kudos to writer Welsh) and acted by an ensemble of excellent actors.

As a result, many of the excellent actors are not given the chance to show their talent (Whoopi Goldberg, Jared Leto, and Vanessa Redgrave are two examples).

It's impossible to imagine Disney's Beauty and the Beast without Lumiere, Cogsworth or Mrs. Potts, and with top notch digital effects and the voices of excellent actors like Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellan and Emma Thompson playing them, these characters vividly come to life, as do Madame de Garderobe (Audra McDonald), Chip (Nathan Mack), Plumette (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) and the newly - created Maestro Cadenza (Stanley Tucci), a composer transformed into a harpsichord.

WHY: Despite boasting a pair of excellent actors in Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman, «Last Knights» is a disappointingly generic medieval fantasy flick that's missing much of what makes the genre so enjoyable.

This is unfortunate because the plot is an interesting one and the cast consist of some excellent actors.

A disparate group of excellent actors including Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Carrie Coon, Alison Brie and David Cross are the supporting cast, and in most cases supporting is all they're really required to do — though Rhys is very compelling in his short amount of screen time as whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.

Not exact matches

Check out this excellent rendition of actor Norman Reedus» Daryl Dixon in hunter mode!

Irish actor Andrew Scott is excellent as the deceitful, snivelling scoundrel whose habit of taking advantage of the good graces of others hits its limit.

Sir Ian McKellen is a perfect actor to voice the dastardly bullfrog, there's a pack of slugs with excellent comic timing, and even the maggots break into harmonious song.

Maïwenn brings up the dirty and dark side of Paris with the help of an excellent team of child actors - Malonn Lévana, the lovely little girl of «Tomboy» (where she plays the sister of the leading character) is someone to keep an eye on - and the best known actors of the French cinema of today: Marina Foïs, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Frédéric Pierrot, Karin Viard, Louis - Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing (L'heure d'été, Le père de mes enfants), Jérémie Elkaïm (La guerre est déclarée), Karole Rocher, and others.

This amazing actor and the excellent cast all excell in this incredibly moving and tragic tale of one extraordinary man.

A dozen or more excellent character actors keep things fairly interesting, and the cast includes everyone from the Young Actor of the Moment, Timothee Chalamet (as a marginal member of Blocker's gang), to Rory Cochrane as Blocker's longtime friend, a ruined man with too much blood on his hands.

Writer - director Derek Cianfrance knew he was dealing with a story full of coincidences when he adapted M.L. Stedman's novel The Light Between Oceans, so he avoided melodrama by holding himself and his excellent actors in check.

Here, she becomes the protagonist, with her forced to navigate her high society position, her own friendship with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara (an excellent Bruce Greenwood), and her misogynist board of directors, with only one of them unquestionably having her back through it all (another fine part for playwright / actor Tracy Letts).

With an excellent, career - topping performance by the late Harry Dean Stanton, coupled with a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and as we're about to make our ultimate transition.

The thrill comes from the compulsively watchable dynamic between the two leads (non-professional actors, both of them), the excellent supporting cast (also non-professionals), and the fun use of multiple locations throughout the bustling metropolis.

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There are as well such not - so - incidental pleasures as John Rubinstein's lovely and serviceable musical score, and a cast of excellent supporting actors.

The rest of the cast is comprised of supporting actors doing excellent jobs in appearances that vary from a few scenes (Paul Dano) to a significant chunk of the running length (Emily Blunt).

The other characters are given very little in terms of depth, but the actors portraying them do an excellent job in endearing themselves to the viewer.

By contrast, the very fine character actor Catherine Keener is excellent as his no - nonsense partner: she's every inch the believable special agent, controlled, efficient, dedicated, human but highly disciplined (as was, come to think of it, Clint Eastwood in the far superior Secret Service drama «In the Line of Fire»).

Everyone knows about different acting methods and a lot of people knew about what Carrey did on the set of Man on the Moon but obviously we never saw it, but that's what this documentary is and although it's not spectacular or anything, it gives another look at the work of the actor and it becomes an excellent companion to the film and especially serves as a testament of one of Jim Carrey's best acting jobs.

With an excellent cast of character actors in all of the roles, as well as terrific costumes, sets and special effects, no expense was spared in getting the look and feel of the eerie world the Addams» inhabit just right.

A throwback to «60s romance thrillers (and appropriately set in the «60s itself), Hossein Amini's The Two Faces of January throws three excellent actors — Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac, and Kirsten Dunst — into a dizzying, dangerous love triangle set in sun - drenched Greece.

It's a success because Lam shows he is still one of Hong Kong's premier directors, displaying excellent sense of style, actor handling, and also shoring it all up with realistic dialogue.

Carano ultimately emerges, despite the excellent cast of famous actors around her, as the one worth watching.

A less effective version of the same fact - based story, even with the same actors doing the same excellent work — it's Jake Gyllenhaal's finest, truest two hours on film — might creak and groan with «inspirational weepie» biopic machinery, over-engineered Big Moments and an arm - twisting, melodramatic approach to its subject.

Taylor's strengths are clearly that of a scenarist, of exploring voyeurism, of compiling effective soundtracks, and of culling excellent performances from largely - unproven actors (David Arquette in Dream with the Fishes; Tunney here)-- he is most certainly not a thriller director, and his dedication to being one has hurt both of his films to some degree.

Whoever thought the excellent Irish actor Ciarán Hinds (The Eclipse) was believable as the elder Worthington must be stark raving mad, and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton) was the older, wheelchair - bound version of Csokas» character isn't much better.

The constant droning of sad classical music over 70 % of the film is highly manipulative.The lead actress is toiling hard in the fields, yet at all times wears lipstick, foundation, rough and mascara.Even some of the males wear lipstick throughout.Everybody is drop dead gorgeous, no mud or gore in sight.The whole film is suffused with too much romantic zeal and sentiment.The two lead actors are excellent, but as usual Tom Sturridge is poor.He fails to convince he could ever be the dashing colonial soldier with his thin, weedy style of acting.One star

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).

(One clever bit of casting that shows up here is Derek Jacobi as Senator Gracchus; Jacobi is an excellent actor above all, but it also provides an allusion to the classic I, Claudius in which Jacobi played Emperor Claudius — underscored by the fact that Commodus tells young Lucius a story about Claudius in one scene in Gladiator.)

A great assembling of actors, excellent control by director Martin McDonagh and a vicious script make Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri a winner.

Not the fault of the actors but when you have the excellent Danny Huston (30 Days of Night) playing an evil German officer then there is the potential to create a proper villain, a mad genius with grand plans for world domination during a time of great sorrow for the rest of the world, and instead his General Ludendorff is resorted to cracking open gas tablets that give him Hulk - like strength for no real reason and never really pays off in any way; in one scene he locks a group of people in a room with a deadly nerve gas and then decides to snort on his magic capsule before cackling and running off - camera like Jack Nicholson's Joker.

From the beginning constant shot, to the great collection of actor, showing off some excellent acting skills, this time there are some comic touches, great stunts.

Rockwell, who won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a dim cop on a short and normally racist fuse, is funny but couldn't be accused of underplaying, while the somewhat overlooked Harrelson, as the police chief who unexpectedly turns out to be hiding not just a conscience but a tragic secret too, is quietly excellent.

Solondz takes another hilariously pitch - black exploration of human behaviour with a film populated by excellent actors playing seriously messed - up characters.

The film boasts an amazing cast — Casey Affleck who can do no wrong playing a psychotic creep; Rooney Mara who has proved herself a solid versatile actor and desperately needs to shrug off the lingering Goth image festering from the wretched Dragon Tattoo film; and a slew of excellent character actors who I adore, Ben Foster and Keith Carradine among them.

In actor - turned - director Raúl Arévalo's debut feature The Fury of a Patient Man, the mesmerizing Ruth Díaz was rewarded for her excellent performance as a pawn (to be sacrificed) in a sinister game of revenge.

As expected, the HBO series marks the arrival of a larger - than - life sci - fi epic jam packed with memorable characters, excellent turns from actors Ed Harris and Evan Rachel Wood (among others), and enrapturing action sequences that have emotional payoff to match.

Meanwhile there's a host of excellent, underutilised actors who only feature fleetingly, though their characters are so integral to Margaret's political history.

Jim Broadbent is excellent as Slughorn — a case of a talented actor playing a great character.

It's not necessarily the actors, bother Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger give excellent performances, it's that there's just a real lack of chemistry between the two.

Of course, in order to fully achieve this Baker must rely heavily on his actors and they reward him with excellent work.

With magnificent turns by Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons (the latter especially, who should be considered for Best Supporting Actor once we fast - forward seven months from now), and a well maintained adrenaline rush by focused directing and excellent editing, the only reason Whiplash isn't in the Top 10 is because of it's noticeably poor depiction of women and predictable emotional beats.

But it's Coster - Waldau's film and the charismatic actor delivers a performance of intricacy, anguish and commitment; it's easy to see why this increasingly prominent actor was drawn to a part that provides an excellent platform for his talent.

On top of his excellent performance in The Look of Love as Charles Raymond, he was also well received as both the writer and actor in Philomena.

Paranoia is one of those thrillers that has excellent presentation of high caliber actors and excellent filming, but it totally lacks any misdirection of plot and situations which makes the whole movie pretty predictable and the ending a bit anticlimactic.

The attempt to make a new version — once touted as a remake — of Gareth Evans» excellent action thriller The Raid has had a typically torturous development battle with actors and directors named then departing.

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