Sentences with phrase «performances in a bad movie»

However, this just in: Redmayne was recently caught giving a Shatner-esque performance in a bad movie, «Jupiter Ascending.»

Unless you're a diehard McConaughey fan and want to see him give a good performance in a bad movie, my suggestion is to... not watch their story.

Not exact matches

«Enough» was a bad movie, although the plot is very good, which deals with the subject of intrafamily mistreatment, but I see that it was not handled in a good way, since the performance of Jennifer Lopez was overacted, as was the

It felt kind of slow though and despite the fact that some of the characters do go through hard times, the DeNiros performance and the movie in general was so light hearted it was hard to really believe anything was at stake or anything bad would happen.

I actually think Julie Walters» performance was probably the worst in the movie.

Much like last year and the year before, this year's Movie Studio Report Card evaluates both the box office performance and overall film quality of the six major studios (and many indie distributors) in an attempt to determine the best and worst studios of 2011.

The acting was okay for the most part (Marsden and Perabo were pretty good but Glenn and Thornton gave two of the most wooden performances I've seen recently), the attacks by the bear were not that well made but it could've been worse but, ultimately, the movie is entertaining and in the end you really care for the 3 main characters (Perabo, Marsden, Jane).

There is not a bad performance in this movie, and even the least of the actors is delivering solid, awards - worthy work.

In fairness, the movie isn't the absolute worst of its kind and there's a certain charm to Butcher's amiable, puppy - eyed performance.

Just when you thought we were done with our review of the past year in film (including our recent report on 2013's best and worst movies), we have one last look back to offer you: our annual evaluation of movie studio performance.

Though in the following years, Tom's voice could be heard in a variety of animated releases, onscreen performances in shows like Monk and movies such as Bad Santa proved that the increasingly active voice - over artist was still very much committed to her onscreen career as well.

Now I hate every performance he's in retroactively, that movie was so bad and he was so brutally unconvincing that it has tainted him.

For some, it will be very bad news that Ritchie (who co-wrote King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword with Joby Harold and Lionel Wigram) stays in his lane with this film; if you didn't enjoy the look and pace and overall vibe of other Ritchie movies, such as Snatch or Sherlock Holmes, then you might feel that his often jarring and visually exhausting style could overpower the strong performances from a great cast.

PRIMETIME TELEVISION Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries KEVIN COSTNER / «Devil Anse» Hatfield — «HATFIELDS & McCOYS» Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries JULIANNE MOORE / Sarah Palin — «GAME CHANGE» Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series BRYAN CRANSTON / Walter White — «BREAKING BAD» Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series CLAIRE DANES / Carrie Mathison — «HOMELAND» Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy — «30 ROCK» Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series TINA FEY / Liz Lemon — «30 ROCK» Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series DOWNTON ABBEY Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series MODERN FAMILY

What gives the movie its sting is found in the performance by John Leguizamo as Michael, the hapless husband who gets the ball rolling by referring his friends to 16 - year - old Shirley, an honours student with a bad case of obsessive - compulsive disorder and the brains to see a quick way to save for college tuition.

In a lesser movie, Plemons» ingeniously off - putting performance would handily steal the show, but in «Game Night,» it's just one of many great turns; Bateman's patented slow - burn plays well off McAdams» upbeat charm (when holding bad guys at gunpoint, she forces them into Child's Pose), while Magnussen's inspired idiocy perpetually finds new depthIn a lesser movie, Plemons» ingeniously off - putting performance would handily steal the show, but in «Game Night,» it's just one of many great turns; Bateman's patented slow - burn plays well off McAdams» upbeat charm (when holding bad guys at gunpoint, she forces them into Child's Pose), while Magnussen's inspired idiocy perpetually finds new depthin «Game Night,» it's just one of many great turns; Bateman's patented slow - burn plays well off McAdams» upbeat charm (when holding bad guys at gunpoint, she forces them into Child's Pose), while Magnussen's inspired idiocy perpetually finds new depths.

Here's a supplementary list of ten performances: Betty Buckley, articulate as a psychotherapist, and the protean James McAvoy playing against her in Split; Harris Dickinson, implosive with self - loathing in Beach Rats; two turns by Michael Fassbender, as the smarmy villains of Song to Song and Alien: Covenant; Milla Jovovich's valedictory sprint through Resident Evil: The Final Chapter; Barry Keoghan as a teenage sprite barely veiling his hostility in The Killing of a Sacred Deer; Keanu Reeves, put through his paces again in John Wick: Chapter 2; Lady Bird's callous, precocious, and heartbreaking Saoirse Ronan; newcomer Millicent Simmonds and her silent movie acting in Wonderstruck; octagenarian Lois Smith playing her age as Marjorie of Marjorie Prime; and Adrian Titieni, slouching and gloomy as a bad dad in Graduation.

All the Money in the World is a poor movie, and all it needed was a bad main performance to sink it.

The movie features that excellent Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, who gave a performance to treasure in Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai (2002)-- but is wasted here in a minor, bad guy role.

Lee Valmassy has a lot of fun letting loose as the gleefully farcical villain (a mohawked, golden - grilled gangster who only wears jumpsuits), and Art Hsu turns in a scene - stealing performance as the hero's duck - loving sidekick, but while fans of bad movies might appreciate what «The FP» has to offer, it's not exactly the ready - made cult classic that it's so desperately trying to be.

His career becomes even brighter when you start to appreciate how he refuses to phone in performances in movies where it would have been easy to sleepwalk, like Fright Night and Winter's Tale, which is the kind of legendarily bad movie that every actor deserves to have on their resume just so they can say they were there.

There's lots to love and admire in Craig Gillespie's look at the rise and fall of ice - skating «bad girl» Tonya Harding, from Margot Robbie's committed performance as the disgraced Olympian to the filmmaking chops on display (watch how the cameras keep circling Harding in her skating scenes, like it's a frenzied shark — everybody, even the movie itself, seems to be a predator out to get her).

One thing I've noticed when Smith essays such a performance in a movie that's not entirely bad (and this movie is rather good): my fellow critics seem a little surprised.

Gerard Kennedy Best: «Iron Man» Worst: «21» Comments: While I don't buy the «best superhero movie ever» hyperbole some people are putting on «Iron Man,» Jon Favreau's take on the Marvel character was smart, involving, filled with great effects and a performance from Robert Downey Jr. that at least puts forth the best superhero protagonist in a long time.

The three - time Oscar winner has made bad movies watchable and has consistently turned in one magnificent performance after another in more than her fair share of great movies.

Full of lazy dialogue, unconvincing performances, and lackluster action sequences (made nearly incomprehensible if you have the misfortune to see the movie in its 3 - D version, inarguably the worst conversion to stereoscopic imaging since the trend began anew), The Last Airbender is an unintentional laugh riot.

It's not a bad performance, far from it, but she is so apart from the rest of the movie, she struggles to quite fit in, other than a grounded sense of what we expect from an origin story.

But even in her worst movies, Kidman is never the problem; her performances rise above whatever dreck they're in, as if her supreme self - possession as a performer inoculated her against the toxic material she was working with.

Gillan is particularly funny in how she turns the generically bad - ass video - game heroine on its head, providing the movie's most pointed criticism toward some of the medium's sexist trends within her performance.

Here is a movie that is not just bad on the merits of it's inexcusable plot - it's a movie about a hitman that is kidnapped and unwillingly given sexual reassignment surgery - but equally awful in it's production value and lead performance.

Plus, Hardy is the kind of actor who gives interesting performances even in bad movies.

(Lanny Flaherty, who plays the sheriff, offers the worst performance I've seen in any movie this year.)

The Mickies also try to acknowledge fine performances in small roles and in bad (or not very good) movies.

Although Voight does little to save Anaconda from collapsing from its own stupidity, at least he makes a knowingly bad film almost tolerable, with a tongue - in - cheek performance that lets you know that he's aware that he's in a crappy movie, and he's going to do whatever he can to entertain you in the interim.

Movies have transcended such things in the past, but combine that with dinner theater - like acting performances and an inept screenplay so bad that it seems to have a malicious intent to inflict discomfort upon its viewers.

Not necessarily a bad movie, but despite many solid performances, there's ultimately a disconnect in this supposed romantic comedy that isn't really much of either.

The movie is guilty of the worst of comic book sins, fridging a woman for a male protagonist's emotional growth, but then it tries to make up for that by introducing Domino (Zazie Beetz in a breakout performance), the most successful of Wade's X-Force recruits.

Oddly, the year's German movie, Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, was mostly set in Romania, and featured a performance from its seasoned character and bad - guy specialist, Vlad Ivanov.

Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow and Ewan McGregor turn in arguably their worst performances with this simply awful movie about a shady art dealer trying to recover a stolen painting.

Though you wouldn't expect it to matter, his flat, half - hearted performance feels like a kid playing bad guy based on what he's seen in movies

Stanley Tucci was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in the film, however the movie has gotten bad to bland reviews since its release in the US late last year.

The most interesting thing about Buffy the Vampire Slayer is spotting the budding newcomer: Ben Affleck appears briefly as an overacting rival basketball player (a marginal surprise, as Affleck seldom shows a pulse anymore much less an instinct to upstage); the better - as - a-boy Hilary Swank portrays one of Buffy's idiotic pals in easily the worst performance of a terribly - performed movie; David Arquette sprays spittle - flecked invectives; and the unbearably beautiful Natasha Gregson Wagner has the bloodless role of a victim.

Luckily, a post-Breaking Bad Bryan Cranston isn't in his first Wes Anderson movie just to give a whimper of a performance.

Stanfield's performance is one of the shining lights in the movie, likely because Stanfield is practically unable to give a bad performance.

Ashton Kutcher gives one of his worst performances in one of the most dreadful movies I've seen this year.

Teller, who was previously charming even in his worst movies, can't manage to wring even a few smiles out of his performance as Reed.

Whether it's Kitana Kiki Rodriguez in Tangerine or Lola Kirke in Mistress America or either of the women from The Duke of Burgundy or a billion other options, there are so many women more deserving of being in the category than Jennifer Lawrence's least impressive performance in David O. Russell's worst movie by a country mile.

or a billion other options, there are so many women more deserving of being in the category than Jennifer Lawrence's least impressive performance in David O. Russell's worst movie by a country mile.

The bad guy almost always dies at the end in superhero movies, but Jordan's performance will live on as an all - time MCU moment that established Killmonger as the new standard in Marvel movie evil.

But another game to film adaptation also sneaked in there, with The Rock also grabbing a much coveted Worst Actor nomination for his gruntin» performance in the movie version of Doom.