Critics Consensus: Director David Schwimmer gets some gut - wrenching performances
out of his actors but he still lacks the chops to fully ratchet up story tension.
Scorsese always has a way of getting the best
out of his actors, and with actors of this caliber, it tends to take the breath away.
As has been true of past efforts, Tarantino coaxes memorable performances
out of his actors.
Haven't ever been a fan of him but I guess Alexander Payne tends to bring the best
out of his actors.
The end result is, like In Bruges, an entertainingly erratic effort that receives plenty of mileage
out of the actors» stellar efforts and McDonagh's crisp dialogue, and it does seem like it's just a matter of time before McDonagh crafts a film that's more than just the sum of its parts.
The work from the others (Michael Keaton, John Slattery, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Brian d'Arcy James) is just as outstanding, and it seems odd to single
out any of the actors if the entire cast can't take the stage in February.
Soderbergh once again coaxs career - best performances
out of actors (Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey) who previously appeared to have hit the ceiling of their limited range.
Baker draws real warmth and humanity
out of his actors, without ever delving into predictability or overt sentimentality.
He's also able to get fine performances
out of his actors, especially Noomi Rapace as Beatrice.
Cianfrance gets great performances
out of his actors — Cooper has never been this good — but like Blue Valentine, the new film is undermine by self - seriousness, a tendency to underline the gravity of situations that don't need the added emphasis.
His use of an emotional score, his stunning cinematography, but most of all the amazing performances he gets
out of his actors, are all reasons why I fell in love with Mud quickly.
Rossi wrote a script exploring the most gruesome depths of repressed grief, Morano certainly pulled
it out of the actors and added further intensity with her blurry focus and pore - revealing intimacy in almost every scene, throw in the ear - assault and too - serious actions of the characters and it stops being insightful and starts being a bit scary.
Dean came from the Actor's Studio, where Kazan himself had been active and found Marlon Brando, and Kazan decided to shy away from Hollywood stars for at least some of his leads and instead cast
out of the Actor's Studio, notably Davalos, making his feature debut as the «good» brother Aron, and Julie Harris as Aron's girlfriend Abra, with whom Cal is in love.
It's a film of vivid textures, the prickly edges of cancer are blended with the slippery slope of young male friendship and the sweetness that's born
out of the actors» spot on chemistry.
While getting such stellar performances
out of the actors is totally to the credit of Krieger, he wouldn't have much to work with if it wasn't for the charming, natural and spectacularly written script from Jones and McCormack.
In fact, nothing that comes
out of the actor's mouth sounds even passably like authentic speech.
Between Witherspoon in Wild and Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club, Vallée certainly knows how to get great performances
out of his actors.
Perhaps its the director who doesn't know how to bring
it out of his actors or it might just be the lousy material, but either way, the film comes off as much less entertaining than it should.
From the pitch - perfect supporting ensemble of Buscemi, Sevigny and Fimmel, who don't waste a single moment of their screen time, all the way to the film's young breakout star Charlie Plummer, Haigh once again confirms his gift for getting the best
out of his actors.
Each of Tarantino's films are ensembles of one level or another, usually elevated off the page by the performances he gets
out of actor eager to take on something fresh.
The intended result is to bring real fear
out of the actors, who act genuinely shocked by the ensuing events.
Abrahamson is a terrifically versatile filmmaker (see the absurdist comedy of «Frank,» next to the searing moral drama of «What Richard Did»), but perhaps his greatest strength is his ability to coax breathtaking performances
out of actors.
He's able to get fine performances
out of his actors, and they're saving the film from being complete armageddon.
We've certainly wondered what other plot lines the Firefly writers had in store for the crew of Serenity, but we had no idea how many plots were spilling
out of actor Alan Tudyk's brain.
We know he can direct the hell
out of actors, so who isn't excited to see what he can get out of Adam Sandler, for example?
Gray has a gift for drawing rich, naturalistic performances
out of actors (Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, and Vinessa Shaw have all done their best work in James Gray movies) and rendering them vividly with the camera.
Yes, it's his first film but I think he gets stuck without having a very clear viewpoint of what he wants
out of his actors or audience.
What ultimately saves the dialogue, in my view, are the lovely performances Baumbach coaxes
out of his actors, all of whom tend to treat the witticisms as material to play against rather than simply deliver.
He can handle just about any genre, and gets the most
out of his actors every time.
Sony's main claim is that its centralized speaker design means that dialogue actually sounds like it's coming
out of the actor's mouths.
Not exact matches
House
of Cards creator Beau Willimon called the Buzzfeed report «deeply troubling,» while others including
actor Zachary Quinto, expressing disappointment in how Spacey, a notoriously private
actor, decided to finally come
out as openly gay.
Actor Augustin Legrand is taking over the role
of «The Most Interesting Man in the World» months after the 77 - year - old American Jonathan Goldsmith bowed
out of the role he played for nearly a decade in TV commercials and other promotional spots for the Heineken - owned beer brand.
Based on data investigators have been accumulating, it's likely a «non-state
actor» rather than a particular government group carried
out the hacking, according to a Wall Street Journal article quoting Director
of National Intelligence James R. Clapper's comments on Tuesday in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Movie critics, awards experts, and Vegas oddsmakers alike have been weighing in on some
of this year's biggest Oscars debates, from
actor Gary Oldman versus Timothee Chalamet to The Shape
of Water against Get
Out.
You just have to stick in there, keep getting
out, keep meeting other
actors, keep meeting people... the very worst thing you can do is stay home and hide away because that's a self - defeating spiral you might never pull
out of.
The «Deadpool»
actor released a statement Monday on his social media accounts explaining why he dropped
out of the project.
In Sweden, where use
of cash is vanishing, the central bank is investigating issuing its own digital currency, the E-krona,
out of concern that widespread use
of other virtual currencies controlled by private
actors could harm competitiveness.
EASTWOOD: So I go in and it turns
out he's in charge
of production there so they cast... The next day after that the very next day I went, I was testing at a studio, standing and they gave me a page
of dialogue, an absolute page, no other
actor there and I had to run in and start talking to the camera.
«My agent, you know, asked him for feedback,» Logan says, «and he said, «Logan is the most talented
actor out of everyone I've read from both traditional
actors and influencers — he's going to be a star.»
That was the hard lesson a two - year - old toddler learned upon visiting New York's Times Square, a mini Disneyland filled with
out -
of - work
actors dressed up in various mascot and superhero costumes soliciting cash.
That's why Nike's ad campaign about
out of work goalies, played by real
actors, is such a simple and brilliant idea.
Here are just a few: Jordan Peele became the first African American to win the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Get
Out, and Guillermo del Toro's The Shape
of Water won for Best Picture — a film featuring a female
actor in the lead role hasn't won the category since Million Dollar Baby in 2004.
Mueller's indictment on Friday laid
out in minute detail an elaborate campaign by Russian
actors to sway American voters in favor
of Trump.
The CEO singled
out China as a particularly «bad
actor,» saying that its overcapacity amounts to about three times
of all the steel consumed in the United States.
At the event, there were yogis, athletes, actresses,
actors, doctors, nutritionists, psychiatrists, entrepreneurs, investors, shamans, ironmen, tantric sex experts, a dude who has jumped
out of airplanes over 18,000 times, a co-founder
of the world's largest men's health organization, Movember, and even Miss USA.
I think we'll see a bunch
of regulation around it that will help weed
out the bad
actors and put some roadblocks in place to help things slow down and make them a little more rational.
Maybe the most challenging part
of fighting on this new battleground and addressing the types
of attacks laid
out above, is that they can come from both peer - state
actors and non-state
actors alike.
While the lead role had been played by Jeremy Jordan during Finding Neverland's sold -
out tryout run this summer at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., that
actor's name was conspicuously absent from discussion
of the show's move to Broadway in the spring.
Shapiro started his career as a syndicated conservative columnist at the age
of 17 but wrote a critique in February
of Parkland activists like Hogg and Gonzalez, pointing
out their youth and saying, «Children and teenagers are not fully rational
actors.
Actors Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore are showing their support for student gun control activists by penning «excuse» letters for those who walked
out of class on Friday support
of gun control and to protest gun violence.