Sentences with phrase «stoic performance»

Behind Streep's work, is another solid, subtle, and stoic performance from Hanks.

The combination of Gardner's music, Marvin's stoic performance, and the psychedelic lava lamp lighting gives the sequence a hypnotic energy.

Oscar - nominated for her intense, stoic performance in Winter's Bone, she shot to fame via The Hunger Games franchise, bagged an iconic role for Marvel in the X-Men universe, won the Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook and scored two more nominations for Joy and American Hustle.

Not exact matches

Hollywood tends to reward — and remember — bombastic performances over more subtle fare, and DiCaprio's frequent casting as the stoic protagonist allows his scenes to be eaten away by his supporting cast.

With a winning performance from Jonathan Banks, Mike became one of the most interesting and beloved characters in the series, with a hardened presence that makes him more stoic and intimidating than nearly anyone else in the show.

It was a performance of such heroism and tenacity that even stoic coach James Wade looked pleased, or at least slightly less grumpy, with the team's magnificent efforts.

Although the acting isn't so hot from the non-professional bit part players, Ahmad Ravzi - also a non-professional actor and former push cart seller himself - puts in a stoic and solid performance.

In fact, Johansson's performance is so stoic and weird, it's really the score and that adds flavor to her role and, without Levi, I'm not sure this whole film comes together.

Strait gives an uncertain performance, full of blatantly rehearsed reactions and stoic delivery.

Although he tries to be stoic with great earnestness, his performance doesn't come off as effortlessly.

Leto's performance harkens back to 2011's Drive, where Ryan Gosling plays a stoic getaway driver.

Memorable, and even managing to steal focus in scenes shared with the stoic Gyllenhaal, Russo puts forth a fascinating and honest performance.

The restraint in his performance marks something of a diversion for Rudd, taking on a more dramatic persona here (though he's not completely sullen — just think more stoic, as in Perks of Being a Wallflower and dial the infectious inanity of Anchorman down to 1).

Newman's performance is deceptively stoic, his impassivity striking the correct tenor for the time, for his body of work to that point, and for the genre - perverting precedent set by Leone while predicting to a degree the darkness of Sam Peckinpah (as reflected in this exchange between Audra and a bandit she recognizes: «What are you doing here?»

Her powerfully - grounding performance is matched in intensity by those of Abigail Breslin as the taken for granted Anna; Sofia Vassilieva as the wasting away Kate; Jason Patric as the stoic family patriarch; Evan Ellingson as the brooding big brother; Alec Baldwin as a vulnerable crusader for the underdog; and Joan Cusack as a judge concerned about the best interest of the plaintiff.

The Story of G.I. Joe William Wellman, USA, 1945, 35 mm, 108m Robert Mitchum's extraordinary, Oscar - nominated performance as the stoic, exhausted, and quietly beleaguered Lieutenant Walker in this adaptation of correspondent Ernie Pyle's dispatches from the war in Europe, made him a star.

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.

They give tremendous performances — and Gemma Jones and Ian Hart are both very good in the supporting roles as Johnny's grandmother and father, stoic and tightlipped by temperament and repressed by years of work and responsibility, and in his father's case by the aftermath of a stroke.

What's interesting about it is that his performance as the stoic Hugh Glass is so vastly different from the ones he's made his name on throughout his career: charismatic, fast - talkers like Jack Dawson in «Titanic,» Frank Abagnale in «Catch Me If You Can» and Jordan Belfort in «The Wolf of Wall Street.»

His Lincoln is stubborn and stoic, but also witty when the mood permits, and though he was the only cast member to win an Oscar for his performance, the acting is top - notch all around, including fellow nominees Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field, and James Spader as a slimy lobbyist.

Stoic has already released a post-release patch, but there are still bugs that crash the game and slow down performance on certain game screens.

To those familiar with Boston's generally stoic and tight - lipped durational performance art1, Jeffrey Gibson and Patty Chang must have seemed awfully talkative.

Komhyr, W. D., R. A. Barnes, G. B. Brothers, J. A. Lathrop, D. P. Opperman, Electrochemical concentration cell ozonesonde performance evaluation during STOIC 1989, J. Geophys.