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Critics Consensus: Director David Schwimmer gets some gut - wrenching performances out of his actors but he still lacks the chops to fully ratchet up story tension.

As has been true of past efforts, Tarantino coaxes memorable performances out of his actors.

Soderbergh once again coaxs career - best performances out of actors (Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey) who previously appeared to have hit the ceiling of their limited range.

He's also able to get fine performances out of his actors, especially Noomi Rapace as Beatrice.

Cianfrance gets great performances out of his actors — Cooper has never been this good — but like Blue Valentine, the new film is undermine by self - seriousness, a tendency to underline the gravity of situations that don't need the added emphasis.

While getting such stellar performances out of the actors is totally to the credit of Krieger, he wouldn't have much to work with if it wasn't for the charming, natural and spectacularly written script from Jones and McCormack.

Between Witherspoon in Wild and Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club, Vallée certainly knows how to get great performances out of his actors.

Abrahamson is a terrifically versatile filmmaker (see the absurdist comedy of «Frank,» next to the searing moral drama of «What Richard Did»), but perhaps his greatest strength is his ability to coax breathtaking performances out of actors.

He's able to get fine performances out of his actors, and they're saving the film from being complete armageddon.

Gray has a gift for drawing rich, naturalistic performances out of actors (Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, and Vinessa Shaw have all done their best work in James Gray movies) and rendering them vividly with the camera.

Not exact matches

When Paul Robeson, the black actor and singer, went to the U.S.S.R. after he was virtually hounded out of the U.S. for being a Communist sympathizer in the 1950s, Max's father served as Robeson's booking agent for several of his singing performances there.

Dark, lanky, and possessing a pair of blue eyes of diamond - cutting intensity, Bentley beat out 20 young Hollywood actors for the role (according to Mendes), and his breakthrough performance was soon generating Oscar buzz.

The actor whose performance stands out the most in this comedy is Thomas in the role of Finch.

, as Kubrick, working from his own screenplay, delivers a meandering midsection that's riddled with padded - out and pointedly needless sequences - with the decidedly (and continuously) far - from - engrossing atmosphere exacerbated by O'Neal's often stunningly weak performance (ie the actor delivers a bland and thoroughly forgettable turn entirely devoid of charisma or presence).

With James Stewart as a lead, Hitchcock always managed to get the most with each of his performance, and having seen a few of Stewart's performances, Rope stands out, and he delivers a perfect performance, and he was one of the finest actor of the era.

A D - grade slasher flick that has delusions of comedy and mystery, of interest only to those who lust after Brad Pitt and would love to check out a performance the actor would probably rather forget.

** out of **** «The Tree» is a perfect example of a movie that has all the necessary materials - an appealing set - up that promises emotional resonance and overwhelming warmth, a strong starring performance from a well - respected actor / actress, and an almost outlandish sense of care for the setting of choice.

Additional film credits include TALK TO ME; the 2006 Oscar ® winning Best Picture, CRASH, which Cheadle also produced; HOTEL RWANDA, for which his performance garnered Academy Award ®, Golden Globe ®, Broadcast Film Critics Award and Screen Actors Guild ® Award nominations for Best Actor; OCEAN»S ELEVEN, OCEAN»S TWELVE, and OCEAN»S THIRTEEN, directed by Steven Soderbergh; Mike Binder's REIGN OVER ME with Adam Sandler; the Academy Award ® winning film TRAFFIC and OUT OF SIGHT, both also directed by Soderbergh; Paul Thomas Anderson's critically acclaimed BOOGIE NIGHTS; BULWORTH, SWORDFISH, MISSION TO MARS, John Singleton's ROSEWOOD, for which Cheadle earned an NAACP Image Award nomination; FAMILY MAN, directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage; COLORS, HAMBURGER HILL, and the independent features MANIC and THINGS BEHIND THE SUN.

Izzo, who co-starred with Roth - the - actor in Aftershock, is a fine genre actress, standing out from a cast of blonde women with her naturalistic performance and signs of courage and initiative.

His Florida Project director Sean Baker has spoken of how he had to ask Jones to take a less stylized approach to his performance, while Get Out's Jordan Peele was willing to let the actor take his character in a different, ultimately more menacing, direction.

This gender - fluid performer and former RuPaul's Drag Race contestant (and who made our list of 100 Intriguing LGBTs to Look Out for in 2017) was submitted for both the Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards for an amazing performance in Confessions of a Womanizer.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy James Franco, The Disaster Artist Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver

She called Leto's performance «pretty impressive» because he nearly scared the crap out of her and the rest of the cast and not simply because he gave her a live rat since he's a big method actor.

There is a moment when Carrey begins tearing up out of potential heartbreak, a rare moment where an actor actually gives more than the performance requires.

But she's such a shallow caricature, like someone out of a Christopher Guest mockumentary, that she doesn't fit with the more subtle, understated performances of the other actors.

He always has a way of bringing out sincere and moving performances from young actors (Dead Poets Society, Witness) and this is probably his best movie.

Carrey's performance strikes new notes of bitterness both apt for a character who's grown surly in the way of people who don't progress for one reason or another, and «meta» - feeling, given that the actor's essentially landed back at square one after decades of struggling to branch out, though it's important to note that Carrey himself instigated the project and that, whatever frustrations he may have about typecasting, he attacks the role with gusto.

Despite Michael Shannon's powerhouse lead performance in the psychological suspense drama Take Shelter, he was somehow left out of the Best Actor race.

Rockwell, who won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a dim cop on a short and normally racist fuse, is funny but couldn't be accused of underplaying, while the somewhat overlooked Harrelson, as the police chief who unexpectedly turns out to be hiding not just a conscience but a tragic secret too, is quietly excellent.

Disney's live action remake of Beauty and the Beast topped the MTV Movie & TV Awards with wins for Best Movie and Best Actor in a Movie (Emma Watson) tonight, besting nomination leader Get Out, which walked home with wins for Lil Rel Howery for Comedic Performance and Daniel Kaluuya for the Next Generation award.

Actors Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek deliver two incredible performances as people on the verge of something that they can not seem to figure out.

Paste: In so many of your films you have taken actors who are, at least in America, not as familiar to us and you coax these amazing performances out of them and they immediately enter into our consciousness.

As much as I've respected Greene's work in the past, especially his ability to suss out great, complex performances from actors and civilians amidst various stages of playacting, I will admit to feeling a certain amount of distance from his work.

When Naomi Watts was nominated by the Screen Actors Guild the pundits kind of giggled and twittered about it being a major coup by the Weinstein Co. to bring an out of nowhere performance onto the Oscar stage.

It's a slow - burning performance, with the actor gradually allowing Proctor's shame to register more visibly on his face, his fury disappearing from his eyes as he confesses his own part in the affair, the breath he lets out at the end of his plea that of a man accepting his status as a sinner, if only it will save his wife.

Not for nothing, «Joe» also featured Nicolas Cage's most recent convincing performance, so maybe between that and «Manglehorn» Green has entered a stage in his career where he's interested in dialing back and getting great performances out of great actors underserved by the past couple decades.

Kristen Stewart is fast becoming an icon of modern cinema, and her latest performance in Personal Shopper confirms her as one of most interesting and daring actors out there.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical James Franco, The Disaster Artist Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Bring out the superlatives to describe the prizeworthy performances of the lead actors, who instill their roles with fire, feeling and flashing humor.

Cooper has the ability to find good lead actors to keep his films afloat (Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart, Christian Bale in Out of the Furnace, Depp and Edgerton here), but that seems to be all that concerns him, leaving little left over to sustain anything beyond the force of its central performance.

Sort of a «Saturday Night Fever» set at a roller - skating rink, this coming - of - age saga about young men trying to rise up out of the ghetto is emotionally powerful and boasts impressive performances from a couple of novice actors well known in the music world.

Michael Fassbender may not be the first person you'd think of to play the Apple co-founder (Christian Bale was originally attached to the project before dropping out), but he's an incredible actor who will undoubtedly make up for his lack of physical similarity with yet another top - notch performance.

That's the only reason I enjoy his films anymore because otherwise he doesn't know about «writing dialogue that doesnâ $ ™ t all sound like its coming out of his mouth, where to put the camera or how to get even halfway decent performances from talented actors.»

Wells (The Company Men) captures life in the boring and hot plains of Osage County, but nothing else rivals these actors and their performances on screen, and he keeps all the focus on them as they come and go in and out of the house, which is steaming with secrets and a lack of air conditioning.

Boseman, who broke out as an actor with his performances in films like 42 and Get on Up, delivers a strong performance (and even a respectable fictional African accent) in Civil War as T'Challa, a member of Wakanda's royal family whose plot thread is fairly integral to the movie.

For the last twenty years, Affleck has consistently turned heads with sometimes subtle, sometimes vociferous performances in films that include: «To Die For,» «Good Will Hunting,» «Gerry,» «Gone Baby Gone,» «The Killer Inside Me,» «Out of the Furnance,» and his career - best, «The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford» — for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Supporting Actor (2007).

Reviews for his performance were downright staggering, and the Oscars love them someone playing a real life person (see this year's Best Actor category, where four out of five nominees do so).

The first two acts of The Maze Runner play out exactly as you'd expect them to, with all of the various details and requisite dynamics sketched in through the thin characterizations of the group's leader Alby (Aml Ameen, who along with Sangster are the only actors who manage to escape this unscathed), the rote and relentlessly irritating (for no reason other than drama) group villain Gally (Will Poulter, whose acclaim and popularity continues to baffle me as he turns in another dreadful performance), the trite cliche of the young innocent Chuck (Blake Cooper) and so on.

His use of an emotional score, his stunning cinematography, but most of all the amazing performances he gets out of his actors, are all reasons why I fell in love with Mud quickly.

Check out these recent portrayals from child and teen actors that offer valuable lessons on the anatomy of a riveting performance.