Sentences with phrase «performances in movies like»

Just when you thought he was starting to break out of his comedic slump with dramatic performances in movies like Funny People and Reign Over Me, he goes and stars in a movie that looks exactly like one of the parodies from Funny People.

Actor Bill Paxton is known for a wide variety of great performances in movies like Near Dark, True Lies, and Aliens.

Stewart has spent the last few years turning heads in quieter, moodier indie fare, earning raves for nuanced performances in movies like Still Alice and Personal Shopper (both of which are quite good).

Not exact matches

The 34 - year - old Irishman delivered spectacular performances for roles in recent movies like Ex Machina, Brooklyn, and The Revenant.

I am guessing the players are now playing for Euro and Giroud he can go take a gun line each of the above mentioned players in a circle like in the movie «Wanted» shot themselves for such a miserable performance they have done till now.

Nootropics aren't a magic bullet and they won't create superhuman abilities like they seem to in movies, but there are some natural substances that may help improve brain performance.

I like to hang out and just watch a good movie with my special someone, sleep in on a rainy day or going to a play, theatre, museums, art performances, Broadway,...

Adam Sandler still feels like he's playing the same character he plays in all his other movies so to say his performance is getting stale would be an understatement.

A movie like «Freedomland» — a somewhat disjointed picture, with performances that tune in and out as if in response to some mysterious radio frequency — is a tough sell these days.

I know what I am getting with Adam Sandler and I like him but this movie was an ensemble and I thought that Drew Barrymore and the younger actors in particular put in great performances.

Really enjoyed this movie especially all the cast like Will Smith and Margot Robbie were best performance in whole movie there were some scenes are messy u didn't mind it all

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.

In 1929, Dunne was cast as Magnolia in the Chicago company production of Show Boat; her superlative performance led to a movie contract with RKO, where after a few inconsequential programmers like Leathernecking (1930), she became one of the top dramatic stars at that studiIn 1929, Dunne was cast as Magnolia in the Chicago company production of Show Boat; her superlative performance led to a movie contract with RKO, where after a few inconsequential programmers like Leathernecking (1930), she became one of the top dramatic stars at that studiin the Chicago company production of Show Boat; her superlative performance led to a movie contract with RKO, where after a few inconsequential programmers like Leathernecking (1930), she became one of the top dramatic stars at that studio.

Between highly forgettable vanity projects, which he's been churning out at a torrid clip, Franco has essentially been playing an indifferent actor giving indifferent performances in terrible big - studio movies like «Oz the Great and Powerful» and «The Interview.»

(In addition to the various stars, the movie boasts scene - stealing appearances by folks like Michael C. Hall, Chelsea Peretti, and, in a performance that remains a consistent highlight, Jesse PlemonsIn addition to the various stars, the movie boasts scene - stealing appearances by folks like Michael C. Hall, Chelsea Peretti, and, in a performance that remains a consistent highlight, Jesse Plemonsin a performance that remains a consistent highlight, Jesse Plemons.)

I like Lawrence's performance best when she actually gets to do some spy stuff, like in a centerpiece scene that feels flown in from a different movie, in which Dominika cultivates a boozy senatorial staffer played by Mary - Louise Parker (making the absolute most of a little).

I really liked Shearer and Gable in this movie, they give very good performances.

Cruise's performance feels like his performance in any of his other movies - he's the suave doll we expect him to be, and we feel like we've seen it all before.

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.

Like his Breakfast Club co-star Molly Ringwald, Gleason willingly spoofed his most iconic performance in the 2001 comedy Not Another Teen Movie.

My favorite thing about Gary Oldman is that he's done all of this without ever phoning in a performance, offering the same kind of gravitas to B - movie junk food like Criminal and thoughtful thrillers like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (which earned him his sole Oscar nomination).

Warcraft was the most successful video game movie of all time, and a sequel sounds like it may come together despite a disappointing box office performance in the United States.

Jessica Chastain, a 35 - year - old actress known for stellar performances in side roles for movies like «The Help» and the oblique «Tree of Life,» anchors the story as Maya, a woman who in a sense is the opposite of an Israeli Sabra in that Maya is soft on the outside and rock - hard within.

Films like these and performances like these are really nothing more than the type of acting required in a torture porn movie or a disaster flick.

At least the movie gets a solid performance out of Asano, a well - known face in American and Japanese cinema for his work in films like the Thor franchise and Ichi the Killer.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Michael Keaton, «The Company» Kevin Kline, «As You Like It» — WINNER Oliver Platt, «The Bronx is Burning» Sam Shepard, «Ruffian» John Turturro, «The Bronx is Burning»

At least the movie gets a solid performance out of Asano, a well - known face in American and Japanese cinema for his work in films like the

Sure it's got James Franco, but the real star of the movie is Andy Serkis, whose motion - capture computer - enhanced performance as a smart ape named Caesar just won him an acting nomination alongside actors like Nick Nolte and Christopher Plummer, who didn't act standing in front of a greenscreen in a bodysuit.

Movies like Leon: The Professional and even Jason Bourne echo throughout the film's exhausting proceedings, but whereas those films had a certain edge in their approach, not to mention solid action set pieces and, most important of all, expressive performances, The Hunter's Prayer serves to be a shoddily - executed version in comparison.

Simply put, sometimes the story is good, but the movie is made by its star, and Culkin gives one of the best performances I've seen in a film like this.

While almost none of the movie makes an awful lot of sense in the logic department, the action is great fun and nearly non-stop, all the while giving us an army of scenery - chewing performances from the likes of Depp and Geoffrey Rush (who makes just a perfect «evil» pirate captain, as opposed to Depp's «good» pirate captain).

Perhaps the chief distinguishing factor is the richly three - dimensional treatment of Dovid — played by Nivola in what's arguably the movie's standout performance as a conflicted man of honor, even when he's attempting to lay down the law like an old - school fundamentalist.

Among the supporting players, the movies sees fine performances from the likes of Diane Lane as Rusty's sometimes girlfriend, the then - little - known likes of Nicolas Cage (Coppola's nephew and the son of August), Chris Penn and Vincent Spano as members of Rusty's gang, Laurence Fishburne as a local go - between and Sofia Coppola, billed as Domino, who is funny and charming in a few brief scenes as Lane's bratty younger sister.

As she says in one of the extras, her usual performance is linear; in this movie, however, she is forced to be, like the Heptapods, circular in her depiction of her character and the events shaping her life.

What we are excited about: Robert De Niro in a boxing movie might sound like a cliché, but you never take a performance for granted from one of the greatest actors to ever live.

They don't just «break out,» they wrestle the spotlight away from the bigger names and elevate the movie to heights it might never have reached otherwise — like Melissa McCarthy's boisterous, scene - stealing (and Oscar - nominated) performance in Bridesmaids.

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.

The movie features big performances (Gyllenhaal oscillates between squeaky Willy Wonka to drunken Steve Irwin, while Swinton, in braces and a blonde bob, is a twisted delight), big action (including a thrilling chase sequence through Seoul set to mariachi music), and some big pigs (that look like inflated Fiona the baby hippopotamuses).

It wasn't his performances in big, important movies like Schindler's List or Batman Begins or Star Wars: Episode I that made him a star, but Taken, an unexpected hit in early 2009.

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).

These are the movies and performances I'd like to see honored in the major categories.

But with «Obvious Child,» she commands an entire movie, one crafted around her performance as a struggling Brooklyn stand - up comedian who finds herself knocked up (like in the movie «Knocked Up ``!)

Even though the adaptation of the Kathryn Stockett best - seller had detractors like Professor Melissa Harris - Perry questioning the historical accuracy of its depiction of Mississippi maids in the Sixties, there's no denying that Viola Davis delivered an Oscar - worthy performance as the movie's lead character, Aibileen Clark.

I did worry the sequence made the film's many great performances (from a pretty incredible cast) seem like crude caricatures that further hammed up some of the hammiest performances in movie history.

Writer / director Tate Taylor, who adapted the best - selling novel by Kathryn Stockett, concentrates heavily on the performances, but otherwise shoots in a picture - postcard gloss, like a gooey TV movie nostalgic for simpler times.

He gives one of his most natural performances to date in Maggie, but the movie, like some of Schwarzenegger's other recent projects, was overlooked.

These performances, to me, are so essential that they constitute a kind of co-authorship, or, at least, a welcome partnership with screenwriting and direction of which I would like to see much more in movies.

All four actors click really well as a group, but they also deliver some great individual performances — especially Aubrey Plaza, who proves she can do more than spout acerbic one - liners and mug for the camera like on «Parks and Rec» — resulting in one of the funniest, sincerest and most charming movies of the year.

Now that's not to say I didn't like the movie, but when I saw Washington's performance in Flight I thought it was his return to top form.

If you like McCarthy's performances in Identity Thief and The Heat, then you'll enjoy her in this movie.