Sentences with phrase «restrained performance»

Anchored by an impressively modulated, admirably restrained performance from Mads Mikkelsen (best known for his work with Nicolas Winding Refn), The Hunt is otherwise an indecisive, weak - kneed film.

Hawkins (pictured above) is tremendous as Rita, an undereducated woman finding her voice, while Rosamund Pike almost steals the show with a wonderfully restrained performance as the trophy wife of a Ford executive.

As for dramatic roles, in addition to «Stranger Than Fiction», he gives an admirably restrained performance in Adam Rapp's «Winter Passing».

While this all sounds like an overwrought, swooning romance, such qualities are tamped down by restrained performances by the three leads.

He begins practicing his English — a useful device for allowing the film to drop its subtitles — and picks up wire walking tips from circus performer Papa Rudy; a wonderfully restrained performance by Ben Kingsley.

He gives one of his most restrained performances to date and nails the Nigerian accent.

Needless to say the film looked stunning, but what surprised was the raw emotional power that Ford conveyed, even with restrained performances.

Paterson, led by Adam Driver's skillfully restrained performance, is a brazing social commentary culminating in a harsh, yet beautiful truth.

None of these are what you'd call restrained performances, but in a story already amped to 11, we left subtlety behind a loooong time ago.

Summarized like that, the set - up does seem overstuffed, but Colangelo deserves credit for tamping down the potential for melodrama, getting restrained performances from her whole cast, and largely keeping everything clear and fluid.

In a confusingly restrained performance, Cage plays Cpl. Joe Enders, a half - deaf Marine who is assigned to protect a young Navajo code talker, Pvt. Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach), during the invasion of Saipan.

But this is Rampling's film, thanks to a beautifully restrained performance that is one of the best of her career and conveys as much with a single glance as does a whole page of dialogue.

I think I just appreciated Isaac's more restrained performance here.

It has Carrey in an unusually restrained and sympathetic mode - it is probably director Peter (The Cars That Ate Paris, Picnic At Hanging Rock) Weir's doing: after all, he managed to coax a similar restrained performance from Robin Williams in Dead Poets» Society way back then.

Beyond Gordon - Levitt's revelatory work, Mysterious Skin features intense but gorgeously restrained performances by Corbet, Shue, Jeffrey Licon as Neil's effeminate pal, Ellison and George Webster as the young boys, and Michelle Trachtenberg — whose lips seem finally under control here.

In 2010, Melissa Leo's least - restrained performance earned her an award she'd deserved earlier, for better roles.

Viewers familiar with Australian actor Joel Edgerton's work should be able to recognize not just the obvious physical transformation into Richard Loving, but his effective restrained performance.

The warm, offbeat comedy of a lonely IRS agent (Will Ferrell in a nicely restrained performance) who wakes up to his dull existence when a narrator takes up residence in his mind and announces that he's going to die, now includes two new commentary tracks... and additional deleted scenes...

The entire cast work magnificently here, particularly Will Ferrell who puts in an impressively restrained performance (at least compared to his usual wacky hijinks).

It's primarily because of Hoss» restrained performance as Nelly Lenz, the facially - disfigured and unidentifiable concentration camp survivor, that the gradual expansion of the film's intensity works so well.

It's the kind of small dramatic moment that this calm, quiet film is built on, and it allows for tender, restrained performances from Edgerton and Negga.

I mean, you know you're going for a wild ride when the most restrained performance is by John Malkovich.

Thanks in large part to Dern's wisely and wonderfully restrained performance, this is particularly true of Woody himself, who never shows any definitive signs of instability or dementia, yet behaves erratically, and is seen and described by all around him as a man of dwindling lucidity.

Treadaway gives a restrained performance that never begs for pity but earns plenty; he shows the day - to - day difficulty of living without simple necessities while retaining hope and dignity.

Having handed in a restrained performance as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in «The Social Network,» British actor Andrew Garfield was heralded by more than a few gurus of gold as the guy to beat in the supporting actor race.

He puts in a restrained performance this time around, which is great because I passionately despised his yelling and roughing Harry up in the previous film, HP & the Goblet of Fire.

It's an incredibly subtle and restrained performance from an actor renowned for the outlandish and the silly.

The film's tonal security is also ensured by casting Gleeson again and directing him to give a very measured, restrained performance that never has the slightest wink to it.

Joe is the kind of restrained performance that's too rare from the undeniably talented actor.

The question is impossible to answer and makes the poets» relationship, along with the restrained performances of Jeremy Northam and Jennifer Ehle, all the more alluring.

In «Tumbledown,» helmed by first - time feature director Sean Mewshaw and written by his wife, Desiree Van Til, Sudeikis gives a restrained performance as Andrew, a New York pop culture scholar who travels to Maine to interview the widow (Rebecca Hall) of an acclaimed singer.

The Ethiopian - Irish actor has shot to fame thanks to a restrained performance in the interracial marriage drama Loving.

A restrained performance in an era that favoured showy thespian histrionics, some felt the actor was out of his depth, but in practice he captures the character perfectly.

His measured, restrained performance (think similar to Jim Carrey's work inEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) is a joy throughout, his impeccable comedy timing put to such good use in In Bruges still intact.

His restrained performance complements the leads» theatrics.

Restrained performances from Aaron Pederson and the like set against a manic Hugo Weaving makes for a nice dichotomy of character in a film well worth your time.»

Predicting Blige feels like a risk even though she got in at Critics» Choice, Golden Globes and SAG because it's such a restrained performance, and in a Netflix movie at that.

It's Got: Fantastically stylish animated opening credits, restrained performances, a (mostly) spare script, a brooding mood and an excellent soundtrack.

Yet, thanks to the restrained performance from lead actor Lior Ashkenazi, who lets discomfort crackle across his stoic features like breaking glass, we can feel the endless conflict playing out within his soul, and across the rest of this desolate landscape.

Kate Mara's restrained performance as Megan might not be to every taste but it seems to suit this difficult, troubled woman.

It's a thoughtful, restrained performance that is the reason the film succeeds.

Enjoy a solid and restrained performance from Neeson who more than capably holds the screen in yet another convincingly tense crime thriller.

As you watch his transformation before your eyes, his subtle and restrained performance will floor you, scene after scene, year after year.

Even Ben Affleck, who we all have reservations about, proved here that he is capable of delivering a strong, restrained performance.

It's a restrained performance that doesn't jump off the screen like McConaughey's other roles this year, but that arguably makes it even more spectacular.

Antonio Banderas gives a lovely, restrained performance as Dr. Robert Ledgard, and Elena Anaya and Marisa Paredes are spectacular.