Sentences with phrase «turn upon the audience»

Directed with bland competence by Michael Gracey from a script by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon, «The Greatest Showman» is both a fitful hoot and a remarkably upbeat con job, one that seizes upon Barnum's talent for hoodwinking his customers and tries to foist it in turn upon the audience.

Not exact matches

By taking a supporting character that might have otherwise been two - dimensional and turning him into an ever - evolving character that the audience could actually feel for, the rising star rightfully earned the Best New Actor Goya that was subsequently bestowed upon him.

Following an unlikely appearance as a football player in The Replacements (2000) and a turn as the son of Old Scratch in Little Nicky (2000), Ifans» role as a socially challenged forest dweller turned opera - loving socialite in the eccentric Human Nature provided audiences with abundant laughs and a further glimpse into the quirkiness of a truly unique actor.Of course the ever - eccentric Ifans was only warming up, and after supporting roles in such efforts as The 51st State, The Shipping News and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands Ifans once again took the lead in the 2003 comedy Donnie Deckchair.

Meanwhile, Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter wrote of the film, «Intense emotional currents and the jagged feelings of volatile actors are turned loose to raucous dramatic and darkly comedic effect in one of the most sustained examples of visually fluid tour de force cinema anyone's ever seen... An exemplary cast, led by Michael Keaton... fully meets the considerable demands placed upon it by director Alejandro G. Inarritu... The film's exhilarating originality, black comedy and tone that is at once empathetic and acidic will surely strike a strong chord with audiences looking for something fresh.»

A more satisfying throughline I noticed upon gathering these five men is how many of these performances hinge on the masking and teasing of the audience's trust; bar the fifth nominee, for whose performance the word «subtle» could only be a drawback, it's an impressively gray - shaded and mutable collection of supporting turns.