Sentences with phrase «terrific supporting turn»

We get another terrific supporting turn from Bobby Cannavale as the slick and slimy «Hard Copy» producer who explains how Tonya's story was perfect for the nascent Tabloid TV era and confirmed there was a voracious appetite for nonstop coverage of celebrity scandal sagas.

«The Rock» is great like he always is in films like this, and the ending chase scene brings the goods, with a terrific supporting turn from Jon Bernthal as one of his workers who decides to help him out not knowing what he is getting himself into.

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He played the same unfunny role in his last starring turn, last year's forgettable Down to Earth, making it harder to remember some of the finer supporting roles he's been allowed to work with (including a terrific performance alongside Morgan Freeman in Nurse Betty).

The cast is terrific: Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt play the hapless parents whose bargain dream home turns out to be a haunted death trap, with strong support from their onscreen offspring, especially Kyle Catlett as nervy middle child Griffin.

So even among a supporting cast that includes terrific turns from Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rhys Ifans, Brie Larson and Juno Temple and despite being second banana to an admirably uncompromising Stiller, Gerwig is so great that it's her character's affection for Roger that almost makes us believe he might be worth caring about.

Nevertheless, the film's three stars — Jack Black, Steve Martin and Owen Wilson — still turn in some decent performances despite the lack of any real laughs in the script, and although the terrific supporting cast (which includes the likes of Kevin Pollack, Brian Dennehy, Rashida Jones and Rosamund Pike) is mostly wasted in throwaway roles, it makes «The Big Year» a lot more enjoyable than it has any right to be.

«It's weirdly charming for a movie so steeped in pain and death, with terrific work from both leads and a nice supporting turn from Great Great Great's Dan Beirne as a kind - hearted artist who falls into Faye and Ronnie's decaying orbit.

And, to his credit, Hanks just might know this: He was terrific in a supporting turn as a priest with ambiguous motivations on the most recent season of Mad Men, and his role as a serial killer in Lucky allows him to tap the implied aggression that's inappropriately unnerving in nice - guy parts.

«Thanks to terrific choreography put together for us by two amazing young dance students from The Turning Pointe Dance Studio, the end result was terrific, fun and helped support a great cause.»