Sentences with phrase «play sociopathic»

Ryan, one of the great film noir heavies, could play sociopathic bad guys like few other actors on screen.

Mel Gibson plays a sociopathic thief out for revenge after being double - crossed by his unfaithful wife and partner.

Not exact matches

Though Vanilla Sky's sometimes surreal trappings found the film receiving a mixed reception at the box office, the same could not be said for the following year's massively successful sci - fi chase film Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg, or of the historical epic The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwick.For his next film, Cruise picked a role unlike any he'd ever played; starring as a sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann psychological thriller Collateral.

In TNT's Gothic mystery series «The Alienist,» he plays a trailblazing psychologist pursuing a sociopathic serial killer in late 1800s New York City.

Born To Kill — Claire Trevor plays a recent divorcee who becomes the object of obsession of a sociopathic killer played by Lawrence Tierney.

Leslie will play Charli — a beautiful, narcissistic, possibly sociopathic man - eater with a surprisingly vulnerable underneath.

Olivia Cooke plays the numb and sociopathic Amanda, newly rejecting all of the feelings she's previously performed for the sake of normality as she awaits trial for animal cruelty.

He's played shallow before — notably in ABOUT A BOY — and scoundrel in BRIDGET JONES» DIARY, but this part is as arresting a portrait of sociopathic narcissism as I've seen in a comedy.

And rather than examining why everyone in her life found the seemingly sociopathic Diehl - Armstrong so compelling à la Wild Wild Country's deep dive into the character of Ma Anand Sheela, the filmmakers opt instead to play whack - a-mole with the gang of petty criminals and brilliant weirdos who drift in and out of the narrative.

Even detractors will praise the performance by Brady Corbet, an interesting actor indeed, one perhaps destined to play more sociopathic roles as he did in «Funny Games» — a cold, amoral person who nonetheless knows how to succeed with women, at least at first.

The black hats here are the oddly comical Cohen (Jeremy Luke, better cast than Sean Penn, who played him in «Gangster Squad»), his good - looking boss, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel (Edward Burns) and their invented sociopathic associate Sid Rothmen (Robert Knepper).

Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays Chris, a handsome, talented charmer with sociopathic tendencies, much in the style of classic Hitchcock villains: men who can literally get away with murder.

Efron plays the alpha male fraternity president, Teddy, with the determined glare of a sociopathic boy - man, nervous about life after college.