Sentences with phrase «performance as a detective»

But it's Aaron Pedersen who carries the film with a devastating performance as Detective Jay Swan.

His performance as Detective John Luther in BBC's Luther won the actor a Golden Globe in 2012.

Before Casey Affleck was strolling into the sunset with Manchester by the Sea accolades, he was giving another career - best performance as Detective Patrick Kenzie in crime drama Gone Baby Gone.

Not exact matches

It is an ingenious and emotionally powerful debut performance from literary detective and former bookseller Ariel S. Winter, one that establishes this talented newcomer as a storyteller of the highest caliber.

It tells the story of a loser in debt (Emile Hirsch), his sexy - virginal younger sister (Juno Temple), their stupid, spineless father (Thomas Haden Church), his slutty, cheating wife (Gina Gershon), and a sick slickster of an hombre (Matthew McConaughey, in his second riveting performance of the year, following Magic Mike) who supplements his police - detective day job as a killer for hire.

Savor their technique and the sizzling performances of Frances McDormand as an adulterous wife, Dan Hedaya as her vengeful husband and M. Emmet Walsh as a private detective from hell.

Caruso's performance is the perfect counterpoint to that of Dennis Franz as the constantly fuming, embittered Detective Andy Sipowicz, Kelly's partner.

Washington also turned in powerful performances in a number of other films, such as Mississippi Masala (1991), as a man in love with an Indian woman; Philadelphia (1993), as a slightly homophobic lawyer who takes on the cause of an AIDS - stricken litigator (Tom Hanks); and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), as a 1940s private detective, Easy Rawlins.

Since 1980, Ms. Grant has mixed acting with directing, and in 1982, launched anWhile still in her teens, Lee Grant established herself as a formidable talent by winning the Critics Circle Award for her performance as the shoplifter in the Broadway production of Detective Story.

Biography: While still in her teens, Lee Grant established herself as a formidable talent by winning the Critics Circle Award for her performance as the shoplifter in the Broadway production of Detective Story.

Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi) would also earn his sole (to date) nomination for his rich performance as Philadelphia police detective John Book, who gets put in charge of an investigation of a murder in the bathroom of a bus terminal witness by a young Amish boy, Samuel (Haas, Boys).

The actor is going through his own personal renaissance — in the last five years executing wonderful performances in the likes of Rampart, The Edge Of Seventeen, the still as - yet - unreleased LBJ and his TV turn with True Detective.

The film is extremely stylish, distractingly so — or it would be if not for a central, anchoring performance from Koji Yakusho as disgraced detective Akikazu Fujishima, demolished by a long drunk and roused back to furious, ugly action by the disappearance of his daughter, Kanako (Nana Komatsu).

Her Oscar - winning performances were so hard core, in a way, that they make it almost impossible to see her as Amelia, for instance, or a detective, or a romantic comedy lead.

As Mexican homicide detective Marco Ruiz, Bichir gives a quietly towering performance.

Originally aired in 1986, and featuring Michael Gambon in a tour - de-force performance as psoriasis - deformed writer Philip E. Marlow, The Singing Detective fused three narratives: a present - day drama about a psychiatrist trying to get the root of Marlow's childhood trauma, flashbacks to the writer's past, and a Raymond Chandler - eseque 1940s film noir fantasy.

The boys aren't bad either, and, in addition to Phoenix, it's exhilarating to recognise, in various disguises, hairdos and toupees, actors that have shaped both American independent cinema, Hollywood and / or cable television (The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) for the last twenty years: Owen Wilson offers an understated performance as a former saxophone player who has to fake his death; the always impeccable Martin Donovan is a lawyer for the Golden Fang (he's also, by the way, Japonica's father, which serves him right); Benicio del Toro shines as the man passing as «Doc's lawyer»; Josh Brolin drew a lot of kudos for his performance as Doc's nemesis, an LAPD detective nicknamed Bigfoot with the bad habit of kicking people's door and dreams of making it to the big screen; Martin Short; Eric Roberts, Michael Kenneth Williams etc...

A highly enjoyable take on Sherlock Holmes with a stunning lead performance from Ian McKellen as a 93 year old detective living with the ghosts of his past.

Julianne Moore, Freeheld — Frankly, Peter Sollett's drama, written by Philadelphia scribe Ron Nyswaner, is way too afterschool specia - ish in its true tale of a terminally ill lesbian New Jersey police detective (Moore) fighting the system to ensure that her pension benefits go to her partner (Ellen Page), but Moore transcends the limitations of the material to deliver a forceful performance as a woman determined not to be let down by the community she served with distinction.

One of the movie's many strengths is a knock - out lead performance by Al Pacino as veteran NYC police detective Frank Keller.

Here, he breaks out in William Friedkin «s latest as a killer detective, the standout in an all - star cast that fills the run time with excellent performances all around.

TRAINING DAY (Grade: C --RRB-: In this absurdly brutal and cynical buddy - cop drama, Denzel Washington gives a charismatic performance as a totally corrupt LAPD detective who tries to teach the ways of the street to naive, idealistic rookie Ethan Hawke.

It has a good performance by Richard Dix as the unscrupulous private detective and a plausible surprise ending.

In 2002 he won his second Oscar for his over-the-top performance as an irredeemably corrupt detective in Training Day, a role Poitier could never have gotten away with in his heyday.

Previously Kevin Bacon has played a kidnapper (Trapped), a paedophile («Sleepers») and a rapist («Hollow Man»), but also a compromised policeman investigating statutory rape charges («Wild Things»), a man falsely suspected of rape and murder (In the Cut), and a homicide detective touched by horrific abuse in his childhood (Mystic River)-- and these past rôles, as well as the extraordinary intensity of Bacon's present performance, all play their part in shading the character of Walter so that he becomes suspended perfectly between the viewer's sympathies and suspicions.

Now he's a bigger TV star than ever, known all over the world for his performance as Jimmy Perez, the gentle detective in Shetland.

Aaron Taylor - Johnson gives a Hall of Fame - level scumbag performance, but Michael Shannon is the standout as a noir - ish detective, Andes.

Among the other winners at today's awards lunch will be Sir Kenneth Branagh, picking up the best actor prize for his performance as a Swedish detective in the three - part BBC1 drama Wallander.

Maigret (1992, Seasons 1 - 2)(BritBox Premiere)-- Before Rowan Atkinson, award winning actor Michael Gambon (Harry Potter, The Singing Detective) played the famed detective offering a superbly understated performance as the sardonic but compassionate Commissaire who, with his unique brand of cool appraisal, never fails to pierce straight to the heart of tDetective) played the famed detective offering a superbly understated performance as the sardonic but compassionate Commissaire who, with his unique brand of cool appraisal, never fails to pierce straight to the heart of tdetective offering a superbly understated performance as the sardonic but compassionate Commissaire who, with his unique brand of cool appraisal, never fails to pierce straight to the heart of the crime.

Rounding out the supporting cast, David Oyelowo (Selma) continues his ascent with a terrific performance as a straight arrow detective.

Mirren, who was so good as Detective Superintendant Jane Tennison in the BBS procedural, seems to be constitutionally incapable of turning in a poor performance, and she shines again in this dark, brooding film.

Many spent time researching by watching detective shows to help them develop a particular character, and they enjoyed developing the humour and drama as they grew in confidence in performance.

Danai Gurira who brought Michonne to life on the TV series did not reprise her role in the game, therefore Michonne is voiced by Samira Wiley who has starred in Orange is the New Black and The Handmaid's Tale delivers a stunning performance that can range from light - hearted dialogue with Pete to action and even emotional scenes when Michonne hallucinates about those who she has lost which provides a guaranteed emotional response from the player, while Malik Yoba voices Pete who made his debut as Yul Brenner in Cool Runnings followed by Detective Carson in Cop Land and TV series such as New York Undercover, Alphas and Empire.

Partly sculptural installation, partly deconstructed painting à la Jackson Pollock, partly a performance vacated by the artist, partly the scene of a violent crime (Le Va has adocumented interest in detective novels), not even Artforum had any idea what to call Le Va's work — a November 1968 cover story dubbed it «distributional sculpture,» for lack of a better term — but today, it's safe to dub it a watershed moment, with reverberations seen in such contemporary artists as Sarah Sze.