Sentences with phrase «somewhat thankless role»

And Aidan Quinn, in a somewhat thankless role as the movie's reality base and opponent of love, never plays a scene simply for its obvious point, but lets us see that his love for his sister underlies all of his decisions.

Not exact matches

Mainstream cinema hasn't quite caught on yet, with her most prominent studio role to date a somewhat thankless part as Ben Stiller «s wife in flop comedy «The Watch.»

It's a role that Liam Neeson would have played had there not been a recent hue and cry over yellowface and whitewashing, and so Chan, in the twilight of his action career, is forced into somewhat thankless service in a film that wants to be more like The Fourth Protocol than like Police Story.

Only Diego Luna seems somewhat lost in a thankless role as an uncontrollable young lover of Milk.

While Rooney Mara did have a role in best picture nominee Lion, it was somewhat thankless, and her other awards - friendly titles of the year (The Secret Scripture, Una) made little impact on the festival circuit.