Sentences with phrase «richest performance as»

The Roaring Twenties is richer is emotion than any other Walsh film I know of, and much of the credit must go to Cagney; emotionally, this may be the actor's richest performance as well.

Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Return of the Jedi) would also earn his sole (to date) nomination for his rich performance as Philadelphia police detective John Book, who gets put in charge of an investigation of a murder in the bathroom of a bus terminal witness by a young Amish boy, Samuel (Haas, Boys).

Saoirse Ronan gives one of this year's most emotionally captivating and quietly rich performances as the competent young woman torn between two loves; and more significantly, her roots and newfound identity in America.

Johnny Depp, whose staggeringly rich performance as John Wilmot, the 2nd Earl of Rochester animates the current release The Libertine, finally became bankable with Pirates of the Caribbean after years of teetering on the edge of superstardom.

Not exact matches

And while Canada - wide median incomes were up by an inflation - adjusted 3.5 per cent over that time, the performance was heavily influenced by oil - rich provinces such as Alberta and Saskatchewan — a trend that's since hit a wall, thanks to the collapse of global oil prices.

Performance - centered research has permeated other disciplines of communication and offered conceptual replenishment as well as richer possibilities for dialogue among scholars.

There is a significant difference between being flithy rich / poor AND being taken as mugs by the corrupt board and inept manager with their empty promises, not strengthening the club season after season, 4th place finishes, woeful performances etc etc despite paying over the odds in ticket costs.

He said: «We should not worry too much about people getting rich, so long as they can show they are genuinely paid for performance and the real risks they take, which in many cases is precisely what we have not seen in many reaches of the financial - services sector in the last 10 years.»

His stumbling performances on the campaign trail, target - rich record, and inability to raise much money — even when things were going well — make him the worst Democratic candidate of the cycle, at least in states once viewed as winnable.

We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich.

So yes, protein powders can be as good as protein - rich whole foods when it comes to boosting performance and sculpting a ripped physique.

Stitching these two performances together is a strong theme of Southern culture that at the most overt consists of a blues - rich soundtrack and at its most subtle in little character moments such as Curtis apologizing for a social gaffe before starting a bathroom brawl.

In addition to the excellence of Gere, Manz and Adams, there are fine performances from Sam Shepard as a rich, ailing rancher, and, as Shepard's foreman, Robert Wilke, an actor best known as one of the gunslingers pursuing Gary Cooper in High Noon.

Rich in its love of surfing but curiously short on such footage, well - meaning directorial debut by producer Robert Mickelson is boosted by winning performances, but ultimately about as memorable as a day of 3 - 4 foot swells.

He may be sicker than Hank Moody or Larry David, but he's also a far richer figure, and in his own strange way, just as universal, thanks to the transcendent performance of Michael C. Hall, who deepens every sick joke and raises the stakes on every emotional twist.

The film skews young, to be sure, and it isn't as memorable as the new Disney classics of the early 1990s, but there's still plenty here to hold the interest of viewers of all ages: delightful performances (particularly by Dench, plowing Angela Lansbury terrain), zinging comic dialogue and a soundtrack that's a wealth of sonorous riches.

There is a certain intimacy to Hibbs» efforts, though not as much as there is to the efforts of a cast full of dated performances, some of which are dated to the point of mediocrity, while other hold up well enough to be rich with charisma, if not a little dramatic weight, with Audie Murphy himself, as himself, all but carrying the film with his particularly grounded charisma, and charming chemistry with his peers.

Critic Consensus: Brooklyn buttresses outstanding performances from Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen with a rich period drama that tugs at the heartstrings as deftly as it satisfies the mind.

It's a must - see for Daniel Day - Lewis» charismatic, subtly shaded performance as Lincoln — and an even richer one by Tommy Lee Jones — but a colleague of mine at The Post has a point in describing the film derived from Tony Kushner's wonky script as «C - SPAN with whiskers.»

It'll be a snooze for those looking for a standard post-apocalyptic thriller, but accepting it as a drama with rich performances and three - dimensional characters, it's elegantly wrought.

This 1995 catalog of performances by various artists may represent the historical development of a rich and enthralling art form, but it's presented in such a clinical way it might as well be a list on a chalkboard.

There is Emma Stone of course, but also Meryl Streep, who gives one of her ripest, richest, gamiest and maddest performances (something like her Maggie Thatcher tribute act in The Iron Lady) as the off - key society warbler in Florence Foster Jenkins.

Blanchett's performance as a rich but troubled Manhattan socialite in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine won her a Golden Globe for Best Actress.

The film meanders from time to time as Simon finds his way around the City of Lights and his own skin, but Corbet's performance is a darkly rich one in every scene, not far from Matt Damon's sociopath - turned - psychopath turn in «The Talented Mr. Ripley» but distinctively unnerving in crafting an eventually hollow façade out of this nice, young, very lost man.

It features a terrific performance by Jennifer Lawrence as a heroine Sturges would have loved, the Long Island woman who invented the Miracle Mop and became rich selling it on the then - new able channel QVC.

Rating: 8/10 — a recreation of the kidnapping in 1973 of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and the subsequent attempts by his mother, Gail (Williams), to persuade his grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom, something the then world's richest man refuses to do; Scott's best movie in years, All the Money in the World is a taut, compelling thriller that tells its story with ruthless expediency and features yet another commanding performance from Williams, something that takes the spotlight away from the presence of Christopher Plummer (who's good but not great), and which serves as a reminder that money isn't the central concern here, but a mother's unwavering love for her child.

As Jess said when she dropped her verdict in Cannes, «It's an offbeat, fun and frequently very funny film, lifted out of disposability by some wonderfully rich production design, music and photography, and by the cherishable performances of the leads.»

Tandy's age (she was 80 when she won) and rich Hollywood history (dating back to 1932) made her the sentimental favorite that year; she didn't pick up any of the major critics» awards, and her performance as Miss Daisy hasn't really endured.

Leading the foray is of course Robert Carlyle, who offers nothing less than a rich intuitive performance as our bumbling lead, Thomson.

It's also an unsurprisingly bravura showcase for Day - Lewis, who, in what will reportedly be his final screen performance, has left us with something rich, indelible and at times marvelously loathsome — a portrait of the artist as a fey, prickly, hyper - demanding middle - aged man.

Yasmin Paige (Submarine, The Double) offers another rich performance, this time as Annabelle.

But it remains the richer of his two Oscar - nominated turns by far, and I suspect it will serve as a useful reminder: The best performances often defy consensus as well as convention, especially when an actor's darkest hour is too easily mistaken for his finest.

In the end, «Frank» is about Fassbender's performance, one that only gets richer as the film goes along.

Retelling the L. Ron Hubbard origin story as a way of exploring American masculinity after World War II, The Master spoils its audience with rich photography from Mihai Malaimare Jr. (replacing regular Anderson DP Robert Elswit), a dreamy Jonny Greenwood score, and two dueling lead performances that infuse Anderson's fifth feature with a jolt of darkly comic energy.

Browning's rich performance keeps Naomi from coming off like a plot device; longtime Beastie Boy Horovitz is a wonderful surprise as the antsy Nick, whose fatherly affect transforms into something more pestering in a way that seems organic (and pathetic), rather than one - dimensionally monstrous.

The Civil War movie doubles as a rich character study for Tony Stark, allowing Robert Downey Jr. the chance to showcase a wide range of emotions in what may be the actor's overall most nuanced and multi-faceted performance as the beloved snarky tech genius yet.

Hoffman has always been a man for lush colour palettes and luxurious, rich landscape but he outdoes himself here as every frame is delicately lit and sumptuously designed, but not so gaudy as to take away from the performances.

Sandra Bullock knocks one out of the park with her performance as the rich, lonely wife of a D.A. (Brendan Fraser), who mistrusts other races and is sometimes right to do so.

John Huston directed his own father, Walter Huston, to an Oscar for his performance as a grizzled prospector who teams with two American drifters and strikes it rich in the mountain wilderness.

At the center of it all is Michelle Williams, giving a masterful performance as a woman who refuses to be manipulated by rich men, smug men, media men, policemen, and even the one man who supposed to be on her side, Fletcher Chase, an ex-CIA agent Getty assigns to get his grandson back... as cheaply as possible.

Thanks to Mahershala Ali's sumptuously layered performance in Luke Cage, Cornell «Cottonmouth» has emerged as the rich, Corinthian leather of Marvel bad guys.

But there's no mistaking the authority of Bogart's self - assured performance as Marlowe, who gets involved with the search for a missing Irishman after being hired by the rich and mysterious General Sternwood.

But even if as its rich - bitch villain Akerman is chewing scenery like her life — and the believability of her kinda awful co-star Lacy's performance — depends upon it, the remainder of the principals are sufficiently nuanced, or at least well - drawn, to keep them from being completely one dimensional.

Though I still think the Academy dropped the ball in some areas (Best Actress, in particular, could have been a far richer and more diverse race had the likes of Sally Hawkins and Kristin Scott Thomas been invited), it's true that, while 2008 hasn't been as rewarding for auteur works as some previous years, we've seen a lot of films either wholly constructed around their performances («The Wrestler» being a prime example) or saved by them (for my money, Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt are the most focused elements of «Rachel Getting Married»).

Best performance by an actor in a small role: Jim Beaver (as a tough - minded businessman in «Crimson Peak»), Ben Fransham (as a Nosferatu look - alike in «What We Do in the Shadows»), Haley Joel Osment (as a rich man's spoiled and useless son in «Entourage»), Dakin Matthews (as the judge in «Bridge of Spies») and B.D. Wong (as the perverse scientist in «Jurassic World»).

It's no knock on her talent to suggest that she has never had a role as rich, extreme or demanding since, though her brilliant performances in pictures as different as «21 Grams,» «We Don't Live Here Anymore,» «King Kong» and «The Impossible» found her scaling the estimable peak of her powers nonetheless.

Quietly, without making a fuss, Hanks keeps turning in rich and flawless performances, but his work here, as the lawyer and master negotiator James Donovan, was beyond even his usual exalted standard.

Michael Douglas in one of his best performances, as a once rich and famous car dealer, now in hard times but still tireless as closing the hardest sell of all — himself.

Theron's performance is as emotionally and psychologically rich as it is physically transformative.

Director Michael Mann has created a rich tapestry of history, but unfortunately the performance of Will Smith as Muhammad Ali never rises above imitation.