Keaton (5 Flights Up) and Helms (Vacation) are one note actors who deliver the same type of
performance in every single movie.
Not exact matches
Its power comes through its repetition
in the
movie, not any
single performance — and neither voice actor Gael Garcia Bernal, whose opening minute was on the timid and slightly shaky side, nor Miguel and Natalia LaFourcade, who followed with the pop duet version, were prepared to do it full justice on their own.
From the tightly scripted dialogue — by turn sharp, harrowing & funny and without an ounce excess on its bones — to the beautifully melancholic score by Carter Burwell and the powerhouse
performances from a cast who've never been better, I fell
in love with the entire
movie, with every
single breath - taking, nauseating, alarming, disturbing, uplifting scene, a fact made slightly more unusual given that I've tried — and failed on repeated occasions — to watch and enjoy Martin McDonagh's back catalogue.
I'm loath to quote myself, but I'll make an exception for «Hearts
in Atlantis,» which was one of the first
movies I wrote about as a college film reviewer for USC's Daily Trojan, and from which I
singled out Yelchin's
performance as «wonderfully engaging.»
In the movie categories, the revenge thriller scored nods for Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, with Frances McDormand singled out in the Female Actor in a Leading Role category, and Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell both shortlisted in the Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Rol
In the
movie categories, the revenge thriller scored nods for
Performance by a Cast
in a Motion Picture, with Frances McDormand singled out in the Female Actor in a Leading Role category, and Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell both shortlisted in the Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Rol
in a Motion Picture, with Frances McDormand
singled out
in the Female Actor in a Leading Role category, and Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell both shortlisted in the Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Rol
in the Female Actor
in a Leading Role category, and Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell both shortlisted in the Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Rol
in a Leading Role category, and Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell both shortlisted
in the Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Rol
in the
Performance by a Male Actor
in a Supporting Rol
in a Supporting Role.
Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Howard J. Ford (The Dead, The Dead 2: India), this high - octane thrill ride stars Angela Dixon (Offensive, Dead End)
in a «powerhouse
performance» (Bradley Hadcroft, The People's
Movies) as a
single mother who takes the law into her own hands to rescue her abducted child.
Too many songs are shot
in long, single - shot close - ups of the actor singing; the intent may have been to further showcase the performance (and to keep the actors from running out of breath — witness Redmayne's dodgy vocal performance while forced to walk and sing during «In My Life»), but in practice it makes the movie visually static when everything about it is constantly movin
in long,
single - shot close - ups of the actor singing; the intent may have been to further showcase the
performance (and to keep the actors from running out of breath — witness Redmayne's dodgy vocal
performance while forced to walk and sing during «
In My Life»), but in practice it makes the movie visually static when everything about it is constantly movin
In My Life»), but
in practice it makes the movie visually static when everything about it is constantly movin
in practice it makes the
movie visually static when everything about it is constantly moving.
Fans of Michael Shannon will inevitably catch the
movie, knowing the intensity he's capable of (remember his powerful
performance as Rick Carver, a
single father struggling to get back his foreclosed home
in one of last year's best
movies, «99 Homes,» which was snubbed by most awards groups?)
But make no mistake, every
single element of the
movie, camera, craft,
performance, music, and more crescendos
in symphonic harmony to portray these particular emotions with a poignant and aching truthfulness.
There isn't a
single convincing
performance in the
movie.