Sentences with phrase «performance as the policeman»

Vithaya Pansringarm's performance as the policeman Chang was incredible and akin to Javier Bardem's Chigurh in No Country for Old Men.

Not exact matches

With his optimism and sense of adventure in peak form, McConaughey left Texas for Hollywood in 1995 and gave a breakout performance as Drew Barrymore's by - the - book policeman boyfriend in «Boys on the Side» (1995).

Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, the movie is both funny and sad, with brilliant performances by McDormand and by Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson as local policemen.

Through the blurry Lynchian narrative, Pansringam shines bright as a sadistic policeman involved in this tit - for - tat murder game, and conjures up a performance worthy of at least an Oscar nomination.

At the center of it all is Michelle Williams, giving a masterful performance as a woman who refuses to be manipulated by rich men, smug men, media men, policemen, and even the one man who supposed to be on her side, Fletcher Chase, an ex-CIA agent Getty assigns to get his grandson back... as cheaply as possible.

Nevertheless, the production design does nicely evoke old - school horror films and I quite enjoyed Hugo Weaving's performance as Abberline, the Scotland Yard policemen.

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.