"Screen presence" refers to the ability of an actor or performer to captivate and command attention when they appear on screen. It means they have a unique charisma, confidence, and magnetism that draws the audience in and makes them engaging to watch.
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Each gave a detailed, astute, and fully committed performance that announced the arrival of a major
new screen presence.
The longtime character actor can be an extraordinary
screen presence when paired with the right material.
Rather than a great actor, he might best be described as a
familiar screen presence... a guy we can somehow relate to most of the time.
Well, whether it was or not, she nevertheless possesses a
fine screen presence, and is the only one not chewing up scenery.
Since first emerging in the mid -»80s, working with legendary auteurs such as Jean - Luc Godard and Andre Techine, Juliette Binoche has consistently been one of the most compelling
screen presences of her generation.
A solid cast performing on all cylinders is the best asset Runaway Jury has going for it, and with such giants of
screen presence as Hoffman, Hackman and Cusack, perhaps most impressive is that Rachel Weisz (Confidence, The Shape of Things) is able to stand her own ground playing against some formidable legends.
Fortunately, Knight has real chops as a filmmaker and even more fortunately, the actor is Tom Hardy, one of the most
compelling screen presences around at the moment.
She continued to be an on
screen presence in the succeeding decade, but turned to directing, notably giving us Away from Her (2006), an excellent drama about dementia, starring Julie Christie.
The same goes for Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, an actor
with screen presence and who, in three films, has considerably improved as an actor.
Otherwise, I have tended to find Russo's career pretty full of Blind Side perfomances, i.e., very
charismatic screen presence and well matched to her costars, but not high on my meter of acting.
In addition to plotting Deadpool 2's arrival, 20th Century Fox also announced plans to further expand Marvel's
big screen presence next year with a pair of new X-Men films: New Mutants, an X-Men spin - off, arrives April 13th, 2018, while X-Men: Dark Phoenix, the follow - up to 2016's X-Men: Apocalypse that will center on Sophie Turner's Jean Grey, hits theaters November 2nd of next year.
Much credit must go to the young Hayley Mills,
whose screen presence carries the film for over two hours.
Her intensely sensual
on screen presence ignited American movies and gave the world something it had never before known: the blonde bombshell.
He is a cipher of sorts, at times more of a representation of Joy's hopes and fears than his own self, but he is an
engaging screen presence who faithfully fulfills his growth toward something quite different from where he started.
Some emotional islands betwixt the terror, such as a meaningful if conveniently timed reconciliation between Lee and his daughter (Millicent Simmonds, an impressive
screen presence here as in Todd Haynes» Wonderstruck), recalls Bryan Bertino's The Monster (2016), in which Zoe Kazan must protect her child from a menacing creature whilst stranded, Cujo - like in her unresponsive motor vehicle.
Melissa McCarthy's
winning screen presence nearly carries «Tammy,» but this raunchy comedy needed a few more spins through the screenplay wash cycle.
As for Darkest Hour, it is hard to see how anyone but Oldman can get the Bafta now, although Day Lewis's performance is I think more interesting, and he himself is arguably rivalled in
screen presence by Daniel Kaluuya who was so brilliant in Get Out, that terrifically smart, pugnacious and relevant satire on post-Obama America.
Neeson, as Schindler, has a
real screen presence that is hard to ignore, and Fiennes as Goeth is fantastic, inciting real hatred and loathing.
The Irish actor is an
imposing screen presence who has shown again and again in films like The Guard, In Bruges and Calvary his ability to seem sleazy and intimidating one moment and comic or vulnerable the next.
Critics Consensus: Subsequent war epics may have borrowed heavily from the original Best Picture winner, but they've all lacked Clara Bow's
luminous screen presence and William Wellman's deft direction.
I loved it... Without trying very hard, Farnsworth commands a unique and immensely
appealing screen presence that could be called «a compilation of all the great western heroes of the movie past.»
Starting with his role as Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins, Liam Neeson has transformed from a strong actor with a
formidable screen presence into the current definitive movie badass, following his turns in films like Seraphim Falls, Taken, Unknown, and The Grey (among others).
It's quite violent yet still entertaining, with Nero (Enter the Ninja, Die Hard 2) maintaining good
screen presence even if he is no Clint Eastwood.
Though the movie's first 30 minutes are an absolute delight thanks to the
charming screen presence of Jean Dujardin, the abrupt change in tone from light - hearted comedy to somber melodrama is a bit disappointing.
Phoenix's performance is as fragmentary and uneven as the film itself but has an energy about it that reminds us of why he seemed such a
distinctive screen presence before his untimely death.
Meanwhile, Phoenix's performance is as fragmentary and uneven as the film itself but has an energy about it that reminds us of why he seemed such a distinctive
screen presence before his untimely death.
Turner is solid, if perhaps miscast, with
beguiling screen presence and the strength to (mostly) avoid succumbing to the teeth - gnashing melodrama of her character's situation.
For all her fragility, Portman exudes a
dominating screen presence, playing off her similarly sturdy and self - assured co-stars with convincing seriousness of purpose.
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