Best Scene: Talking about a lynching.
9. David Strathairn in Nightmare Alley - Strathairn gives a brief but moving portrayal of a man with the slight spark of the former spiritualist, but now just a lost soul.
Best Scene: A warning to Stan.
8. Tony Leung Chiu Wai in Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings - Though his film does not quite use him to his full potential, Leung brings so much depth and presence to what could've been a wholly stock villain.
Best Scene: The importance of names.
7. Jeffrey Wright in The French Dispatch - Wright gives a literal wonderful delivery of a story, but also gives a moving portrayal of the emotional woes behind the writer's work.
Best Scene: A new flavor.
6. Al Pacino in House of Gucci - Pacino once again delivers here bringing an endearing energy as the representation of the Gucci family empire, then a tragic power as the man sees that empire slip away.
Best Scene: Signing the company away.
5. Ben Affleck in The Last Duel - Affleck brings the right change of pace, that still fits within his film's tone, as the one man who seems to find joy in a mostly miserable world.
Best Scene: Discussing the rape charge.
4. Anders Danielsen Lie in The Worst Person in the World - The power of Lie's work slowly reveals itself in his portrait of a man defined by uncertainty who only finds certainty when it is too late.
Best Scene: Final scene.
3. Masaki Okada in Drive, My Car - Okada's work crafts a proper enigma which slowly reveals itself in both nefarious and strangely poignant ways.
Best Scene: Backseat revelations.
2. Mike Faist in West Side Story - Faist puts his all into his performance that is exceptionally compelling and creates a deeply moving portrait of a man defined by hate.
Best Scene: The rumble.
1. Bradley Cooper in Licorice Pizza - Good predictions Aidan and 8000's. Although working with the least amount of screentime, no other performance in this category left a greater visceral impact on me than this one. I simply laughed every moment Cooper was on screen through every insane variation he brought in his portrayal of certifiable lunatic Jon Peters, and Cooper for me delivered one of the very best purely comic turns in some time. I loved every second of this turn, and even though there's only so many seconds he has total, I never thought there was anything lacking for it. If I were not to give him the win here it would be lying to myself, because my favorite scene in my favorite film of the year is his sequence in Licorice Pizza, a sequence built upon the glorious madness of his performance. Yes he essentially only has one scene, but the same is true for the challenge, of only having one scene to be as memorable as Cooper is here. Although this is a year with many worthy candidates, despite what the academy would lead you to believe, and I certainly easily see the logic in choosing really anyone in my top five, my choice goes to Cooper without reservation for his work of 24karat comedic gold.
Best Scene: Peters returns.
Overall:
- Bradley Cooper in Licorice Pizza
- Mike Faist in West Side Story
- Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Power of the Dog
- Masaki Okada in Drive, My Car
- Anders Danielsen Lie in The Worst Person in the World
- Ben Affleck in The Last Duel - 5
- Alex Hassell in The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Ciaran Hinds in Belfast
- David Alvarez in West Side Story
- Al Pacino in House of Gucci
- Jeffrey Wright in The French Dispatch
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai in Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings
- David Strathairn in Nightmare Alley
- Anthony LaPaglia in Nitram
- Kelvin Harrison Jr. in Cyrano
- Willem Dafoe in Nightmare Alley
- Richard Jenkins in Nightmare Alley
- Andre Holland in Passing - 4.5
- Sean Penn in Licorice Pizza
- Adrien Brody in The French Dispatch
- Willem Dafoe in Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Sean Harris in The Green Knight
- Jason Momoa in Dune
- Tom Waits in Licorice Pizza
- Barry Keoghan in The Green Knight
- Benicio Del Toro in The French Dispatch
- Corey Hawkins in The Tragedy of Macbeth
- John Cena in The Suicide Squad
- Andrew Garfield in Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Toby Huss in Copshop
- Javier Bardem in Dune
- Simon Helberg in Annette
- Troy Kotsur in CODA
- Terence Stamp in Last Night in Soho
- Timothy Spall in Spencer
- LaKeith Stanfield in The Harder They Fall
- Richard Ayoade in The Souvenir Part II
- Jamie Dornan in Belfast
- Colman Domingo in Zola
- Jon Bernthal in King Richard
- Merab Ninidze in The Courier
- Oscar Isaac in Dune
- Issey Ogata in Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
- David Harbour in Black Widow
- Robin De Jesus in Tick Tick...Boom
- Fred Melamed in Shiva Baby
- Chaske Spencer in Wild Indian
- Jason Flemyng in Boiling Point
- Mohsen Tanabandeh in A Hero
- Richard Jenkins in The Humans
- Danny McBride in The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
- Herbert Nodrum in The Worst Person in the World - 4
- Stellan Skarsgard in Dune
- Ralph Ineson in The Green Knight
- David Knell in Pig
- Taigo Nakano in 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
- Joseph Cross in Licorice Pizza
- Ali Ranjibari in A Hero
- Bill Murray in The French Dispatch
- Corey Hawkins in In the Heights
- Joel Kinnaman in The Suicide Squad
- Brendan Gleeson in The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Alireza Jahandideh in A Hero
- Vondie Curtis-Hall in The Night House
- Benny Safdie in Licorice Pizza
- Jared Leto in House of Gucci
- Timothee Chalamet in The French Dispatch
- Jeremy Irons in House of Gucci
- Jesse Plemons in The Power of the Dog
- Steven Yeun in The Humans
- Adam Arkin in Pig
- Josh Brolin in Dune
- Josh Andrés Rivera in West Side Story
- Lucian-River Chauhan in Encounter
- Joel Edgerton in The Green Knight
- Ben Affleck in The Tender Bar
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
- Lil Rel Howery in Judas and the Black Messiah
- Sean Harris in Spencer
- Yousseff Kerkour in House of Gucci
- Rajkummar Rao in The White Tiger
- Colman Domingo in Candyman
- David Dastmalchian in The Suicide Squad
- David Harbour in No Sudden Move
- Peter Dinklage in I Care A Lot
- Talid Ariss in After Love
- Owen Wilson in The French Dispatch
- Alex Lawther in The Last Duel
- Peter Capaldi in The Suicide Squad
- Stephen Park in The French Dispatch
- Brian Tyree Henry in Eternals
- John Leguizamo in Encanto
- Toni Servillo in The Hand of God
- Ben Kingsley in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Tobey Maguire in Spider-man: No Way Home
- Ray Chase in Malignant
- Fred Armisen in The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- Beck Bennett in The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- Babs Olusanmkun in Dune
- Bertie Carvel in The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Ray Liotta in The Many Saints of Newark
- Mel Gibson in Boss Level
- Skyler Gisondo in Licorice Pizza
- Hiroyuki Sanada in Mortal Kombat
- Paul Anderson in Nightmare Alley
- Holt McCallany in Wrath of Man
- Jack Huston in House of Gucci
- Mahesh Manjrekar in The White Tiger
- Michael Gandolfini in The Many Saints of Newark
- Jimmi Smits in In the Heights
- Izaac Wang in Raya and the Last Dragon
- Stephen Henderson in Dune
- Christopher Lloyd in Nobody
- Sylvester Stallone in The Suicide Squad
- Jon Favreau in Spider-man: No Way Home
- Ethan Darbone in Red Rocket
- Bill Camp in Passing
- Jesse Plemons in Judas and the Black Messiah
- Trace Adkins in Old Henry
- Barry Keoghan in Eternals
- Leslie Odom Jr. in The Many Saints of Newark
- Danny Deferrari in Shiva Baby
- David Dastmalchian in Dune
- Alfred Molina in Spider-man No Way Home
- Dan Aykroyd in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Scoot McNairy in C'mon C'mon
- Gregory Diaz IV in In the Heights
- Benedict Cumberbatch in Spider-man No Way Home
- Holt McCallany in Nightmare Alley
- Enrico Natale in The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
- Farrokh Nourbakht in A Hero
- Stephen Root in The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Stephen Dorff in Old Henry
- Delroy Lindo in The Harder They Fall
- Aditya Geddada in Encounter
- Woody Harrelson in Venom Let There Be Carnage
- Paddy Considine in Wolf
- Benedict Wong in Raya and the Last Dragon
- Ed Harris in The Lost Daughter - 3.5
- Christopher Lloyd in The Tender Bar
- Harry Melling in The Tragedy of Macbeth
- Jim Beaver in Nightmare Alley
- Joe Taslim in Mortal Kombat
- Tony Goldwyn in King Richard
- Tim Blake Nelson in Nightmare Alley
- Taika Waititi in The Suicide Squad
- Jon Bernthal in Those Who Wish Me Dead
- Ron Perlman in Nightmare Alley
- John Amos in Coming 2 America
- Chris Messina in I Care a Lot
- Jeffrey Wright in No Time to Die
- J.K. Simmons in Being the Ricardos
- Brian d'Arcy James in West Side Story
- Don Lee in Eternals
- Mathieu Almaric in The French Dispatch
- Michael Smiley in Censor
- Paul Walter Hauser in Cruella
- Jesse Plemons in Jungle Cruise
- Corey Stoll in West Side Story
- Nathaniel Parker in the Last Duel
- Ray Panthaki in Boiling Point
- Macon Blair in I Care a Lot
- Andrew Garfield in The Eyes of Tammy Faye
- Matthias Schweighöfer in Army of the Dead
- Jamie Foxx in No Way Home
- Zeljko Ivanek in The Last Duel
- James Earl Jones in Coming 2 America
- Joel Fry in Cruella
- Ethan Hawke in The Guilty
- Bradley Whitford in Tick Tick...Boom
- Ralph Fiennes in No Time to Die
- Flula Borg in The Suicide Squad
- Algee Smith in Judas and the Black Messiah
- Mark Strong in Cruella
- Brendan Fraser in No Sudden Move
- Joshua Henry in Tick Tick...Boom
- Joe Alwyn in The Souvenir Part II
- Michael Rooker in The Suicide Squad
- Matt Smith in Last Night in Soho
- Garret Dillahunt in Army of the Dead
- Jon Bernthal in The Many Saints of Newark
- Ben Whishaw in No Time to Die
- Matt Damon in No Sudden Move
- Joe Keery in Free Guy
- Matthew Goode in The Duke
- Lambert Wilson in Benedetta
- Vondie Curtis-Hall in Blue Bayou
- Eric Andre in The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- Bill Murray in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Ernie Hudson in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Rob Morgan in Don't Look Up
- Harris Dickinson in The Souvenir Part II
- Chang Chen in Dune
- Tony Hale in Being the Ricardos
- J.K. Simmons in Spider-man No Way Home
- John Krasinski in A Quiet Place Part II
- Willem Dafoe in The Card Counter
- Jacob Batalon in Spider-man No Way Home
- Yahya Abdul-Manteen II in The Matrix Resurrections
- Idris Elba in The Harder They Fall
- Djimon Hounsou in A Quiet Place Part II
- Josh Hartnett in Wrath of Man
- Bashir Salahuddin in Cyrano
- Jamie Dornan in Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar
- Anders Danielsen Lie in Bergman Island
- Max von Sydow in Echoes of the Past
- Israel Elejalde in Parallel Mother
- Jeffrey Donovan in Wrath of Man
- Dave Bautista in Dune
- Fionn Whitehead in The Duke
- Eddie Marsan in Wrath of Man
- Mike Rianda in The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- Forrest Whitaker in Respect - 3
- Ben Mendelsohn in Cyrano
- Channing Tatum in Free Guy
- Ray Liotta in No Sudden Move
- Scott Haze in Old Henry
- Casey Affleck in The World to Come
- Scott Eastwood in Wrath of Man
- Kit Harington in Eternals
- Tyler Perry in Don't Look Up
- Peter Sarsgaard in The Lost Daughter
- Wyatt Russell in The Woman in the Window
- Kyle Chandler in Godzilla vs. Kong
- Cliff Curtis in Reminiscence
- Stephen Graham in Venom Let There Be Carnage
- Wesley Snipes in Coming 2 America
- Rob Morgan in The United States vs. Billie Holiday
- Benedict Cumberbatch in The Mauritanian
- Brian Tyree Henry in Godzilla vs. Kong
- Aleksei Serebryakov in Nobody
- Paul Rudd in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Haris Patel in Eternals
- Nicholas Hoult in Those Who Wish Me Dead
- Lil Rel Howery in Free Guy
- Martin Sheen in Judas and the Black Messiah
- Florian Munteanu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings
- Billy Magnussen in No Time To Die
- Arsenio Hall in Coming 2 America
- Demian Bichir in Godzilla vs. Kong
- Ludi Lin in Mortal Kombat
- Logan Kim in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Thomas Haden Church in Spider-man: No Way Home
- Michael Gandolfini in Cherry
- Daniel Durant in CODA
- Billy Magnussen in The Many Saints of Newark
- Omari Hardwick in Army of the Dead
- Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in CODA
- Will Patton in Halloween Kills
- Dwight Yoakam in Cry Macho
- Timothee Chalamet in Don't Look Up
- Michael Ajao in Last Night in Soho
- Steve O'Connell in The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
- Finn Wolfhard in Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Anthony Michael Hall in Halloween Kills
- Julian Dennison in Godzilla vs. Kong
- Gary Oldman in The Woman in the Window
- Jonah Hill in Don't Look Up - 2.5
- Danny Pino in Dear Evan Hansen
- Eduardo Minett in Cry Macho
- RZA in Nobody
- Neil Patrick Harris in The Matrix Resurrections
- Josh Lawson in Mortal Kombat
- Ben Chaplin in The Dig
- Tracy Morgan in Coming 2 America
- Johnny Flynn in The Dig
- Zachary Levi in The Mauritanian
- Himesh Patel in Don't Look Up
- Christoph Waltz in No Time to Die
- Christopher Abbott in The World to Come
- Cedric Joe in Space Jam: A New Legacy
- Raul Castillo in Army of the Dead
- Jonathan Groff in The Matrix Resurrections
- Peter Sarsgaard in The Guilty
- Alexander Skarsgard in Godzilla vs. Kong
- Max Huang in Mortal Kombat
- Kumail Nanjiani in Eternals
- Finn Little in Those Who Wish Me Dead
- George Young in Malignant
- Tadanobu Asano in Mortal Kombat
- John Michael Higgins in Licorice Pizza
- Jake Lacy in Being the Ricardos
- Colton Ryan in Dear Evan Hansen
- Leslie Odom Jr. in Music
- Emory Cohen in Blue Bayou
- Charlie Heaton in The Souvenir Part II
- Don Cheadle in Space Jam: A New Legacy
- Mark O'Brien in Blue Bayou
- Theo Rossi in Army of the Dead - 2
- Jared Leto in The Little Things
- Michael McDonald in Halloween Kills
- Scott MacArthur in Halloween Kills
- Chin Han in Mortal Kombat
- Jack Reynor in Cherry
- Douglas Booth in My Salinger Year
- Ray Winstone in Black Widow
- Tye Sheridan in The Card Counter
- Jack Whitehall in The Jungle Cruise
- Eugenio Derbez in CODA
- John McCrea in Cruella
- Ben Marten in The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
- Fred Hechinger in The Woman in the Window
- Mark Rylance in Don't Look Up - 1.5
- Daniel Wu in Reminiscence
- Taika Waititi in Free Guy
- Max Martini in The Tender Bar
- Garrett Hedlund in The United States vs. Billie Holiday
- John Magaro in The Many Saints of Newark
- Ben Schwartz in Music - 1
- Rami Malek in No Time to Die - Wiseau
- David Dencik in No Time to Die - 0
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28 comments:
Review all 5s
Patel
Cage
Jones
Phoenix
Nishijima
Cooper
Rex
Hoffman
Isaacs (And Birney)
Jadidi
Nishijima
Rex
Dinklage
Cooper
Isaacs and Birney
Jadidi
Though as Luke says, priority of course being all 5s. Also glad to see Chang Chen got bumped up a bit!
I also love the little (Wiseau) next to Malek. No Time to Die must be the best film to ever feature multiple Wiseau/0 performances.
Louis: I haven't seen it yet but do you consider Murphy Lead in A Quiet Place Part II.
Ratings and thoughts on the casts of Encounter, Boss Level, Wrath Of Man, Jungle Cruise, The Duke (I thought it was a 2022 release), Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar, Echoes Of The Past, The Woman In The Window and My Salinger Year.
I think Cooper might have the potential to pull a Jean Simmons.
Really hoping to see Tim Blake Nelson in the top ten here.
Jason Isaacs and Reed Birney - Mass
Nicolas Cage - Pig
Hidetoshi Nishijima - Drive My Car
Dev Patel - The Green Knight
Bradley Cooper - Nightmare Alley
Simon Rex - Red Rocket
Cooper Hoffman - Licorice Pizza
Leonardo DiCaprio - Don't Look Up
Adam Driver - The Last Duel
Antonio Saboia - Private Desert
Caleb Landry Jones - Nitram
Stephen Graham - Boiling Point
James Norton - Nowhere Special
Hidetoshi Nishijimai - Drive My Car
Udo Kier - Swang Song
Cooper Hoffman - Licorice Pizza
Simon Rex - Red Rocket
Reed Birney and Jason Isaacs - Mass
Amir Jadidi - A Hero
Cliton Collins Jr. - Jockey
Dammit! So close.
Dev Patel
Nicolas Cage
Peter Dinklage
Phoenix
Cooper
Amir Jadidi
Nichijima
Matt Damon - Stillwater
Hoffman
How bad must a performance be to get a 0?
Didn't really expect to win this so naturally I'll hold on to my request for now haha.
Anyways...
Cage
Cooper
Hoffman
Nishijima
Patel
Phoenix
Bradley Cooper
Joaquin Phoenix
Jason Isaacs/Reed Birney
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Peter Dinklage
Amir Jadidi
Mahershala Ali
James Norton
Dev Patel
Tim Blake Nelson
Cage
Cooper
Nishijima
Hoffman
Patel
Phoenix
Nelson
Jadidi
Eastwood
Isaacs/Birney
Louis: repeating my question "your ranking of the best performances of films directed by Ridley Scott"
Anyway, Cage and Cooper are the only two I can think of right now that I want to see reviewed. Still need to watch Drice My Car, C’mon C’mon, and Red Rocket
Louis: Also ratings/thoughts on the cast of No Sudden Move.
I'll happily take 5th place for Danielsen Lie. Going to see Licorice Pizza on the 4th of March, predicting I will give a 5/5 for Cooper, and maybe even a 10/10 for the film.
I suggest:
Nishijima (Drive My Car)
Cooper (Nightmare Alley)
Isaac (Mass)
Birney (Mass)
Rex (Red Rocket)
Cage (Pig)
Chalamet (Dune)
Also, haven't seen it yet, but Phoenix for C'mon C'mon.
Nicolas Cage in Pig
Tim Blake Nelson in Old Henry
Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley
Joaquin Phoenix in C'mon C'mon
Peter Dinklage in Cyrano
Cooper Hoffman in Licorice Pizza
Adam Driver in The Last Duel
Dev Patel in The Green Knight
Hidetoshi Nishijima in Drive My Car
Jason Isaacs and Reed Birney in Mass
Louis: Also you forget to list Mike Rianda for The Mitchells vs. The Machines.
Jason Isaacs and Reed Birney - Mass
Bradley Cooper - Nightmare Alley
Hidetoshi Nishijima - Drive My Car
Dev Patel - The Green Knight
Nicholas Cage - Pig
Simon Rex - Red Rocket
Cooper Hoffman - Licorice Pizza
Amir Jadidi - A Hero
Joaquin Phoenix - C’mon C’mon
Caleb Landry Jones - Nitram
Robert: Drive My Car hits HBO Max on the 2nd.
Also, I have a hunch that you’ll love Simon Rex’s performance.
Luke:
Murphy is co-lead.
Ahmed - 4.5(This film would be high up on the worst of the year if not for Ahmed, as it takes a some intriguing concept and develops into a truly baffling series of choices. Having said that Ahmed gives a performance of true conviction that absolutely sells the concept within his own work. This as Ahmed manages to bring the sense of mania combined with the sense of a father trying to protect his sons as evenly with almost this divorced dad quality of trying to be more than he is. Ahmed hits this note with proper complexity and is compelling within himself by making the insanity of the character's state completely tangible. If the film were good at all, this could've been something truly special from Ahmed as he delivers a terrific turn despite dealing with some awful material.)
Spencer - 3(Fine if very basic supporting work from her in terms of just showing the person who has empathy for the situation.)
Geddada & Chuahan - (Both are good along with Ahmed in showing the different states of the sons while also conveying the harrowing state of the situation often in their work. Both are particularly good in the moments of portraying the two different reacts of the children. One in showing the younger son of just believing his dad wholly as a child of the age would, while the other having that growing reservation and sense of reality as the tale spirals out of control.)
Grillo - 4(Boss Level I actually found quite a bit of fun, even if the third act peters out a bit. Grillo gives one of his best performances though in making a far more likable lead than the characters he's usually tasked with. He mixes the right sense of badassery with a more genuine exasperation of the situation. He also wholly delivers in the more emotional moments granted to his character and creates a sense of the growth with the man in the situation just as he's carrying the sense of the growing skill in the action scenes.)
Gibson - (Kind of underused overall but he provides the right "boss" that needs to be defeated.)
Watts - 3(Honestly one of her better performances of late honestly, in giving the right degree of heart in providing the most literal direct sort of emotional motivations.)
Statham - 3.5(I actually did appreciate the film for Ritchie changing up his style a bit with the harder edge he brings here, though he still falls into needless complication. Statham is pure Statham here, but it totally works as the vicious force of nature who will not be stopped or stop.)
Eastwood - (Leaves a little to be desired as the prime target, but honestly one of his better performances as he at least is generally fine in the role.)
Donovan - (Appreciated the moments of more emotional reflection suggesting that his character isn't all bad, while still providing the presence as the more calculating villain.)
McCallany - (Liked his performance for managing to effectively play the different sides from the seemingly mentor type to slowly devolving into a more hard-bitten and cruel sort.)
Hartnett - (Random role for the guy who just disappeared from general prominence, thought he was pretty good at playing the guy who has no business in an action scene actually.)
Marsan - (Plays well the most human character both in terms of just reacting to the violence of the life in general, but also within the action scenes.)
Regarding Jungle Cruise, Whitehall is annoying, Plemons is kind of fun but underused in a way, and Blunt and the Rock are fine in the most basic fine way possible in a film that is basically Pirates of the Caribbean if you sucked all the life out of it, even the duology films.
Broadbent - 4(Has several 2020 release dates. Anyways very much in Broadbent wheel house as the affable eccentric. Mostly there to be just that, and he does it well. He particularly gets some nice bits in his courtroom scenes later and manages to bring the right sort of low key comedic wisdom and passion to the character.)
Whitehead - (Very much overshadowed by Broadbent throughout but fine.)
Goode - (Overshadowed as well, though I did like his bit on commenting on his famous marriage that said more beyond a standard lawyer role.)
Mirren - 3.5(Largely in her wheelhouse as well to the point that most of her performances skew too safe of recent times. Still she still does the old biddy with a strong personality within it effectively even if it feel a touch redundant.)
Wiig & Mumolo - 2.5/2(Wiig's Cate Blanchett performance actually is kind of fun unfortunately it is one of the few funny things in the film. The rest is these two working with schtick that just isn't quite there, in fact mostly far from it. So they just mug for awhile for laughs and don't get many.)
Dornan - (The hunk henchmen finding unusual love would be funny, but the film doesn't again have the humor down. Dornan though in his manner though does score a few laughs just by largely playing it straight even if the dynamics are all off.)
von Sydow - (Sadly not much of swan song, as the film covers what should be an important story as lifelessly as possible. von Sydow in his relatively brief appearance delivers one more bit of emotional gravitas, but sadly is barely a role to begin with.)
Adams - 2.5(In this well shot poorly conceived thriller, Adams is better than Blunt in the extremely similar Girl on the Train, but only just slightly. She really still overplays a lot of the most dramatic moments. I will say though outside of those she is generally fine, if only just that.)
Oldman - (A lame role, but he really doesn't bring much even within that limitation. Not his finest hour.)
Russell - (Actually tries his best and isn't bad, but the role just gives him little to work with.)
Hechinger - (Quite obvious in terms of the plot but also just quite bad in overplaying both his note of vulnerability and the later note that he performs.)
Moore and Leigh appear...
Qualley - 3.5(Not much of a film but she does do her best to try to make something out of it. She has a naturally endearing presence and uses it well to make her indulgent writer type a little less of that. She brings a nice sweetness to her work but also self awareness at times that makes it a bit more flattering. She's likable even if saddled with Douglas Booth as a love interest which is always problem.)
Booth - (I'm sorry don't usually comment on actors appearances but his face has like an uncanny Valley thing as though he was designed to be all the handsome elements of a face, yet because of that his face looks extremely off-putting. Although maybe the real problem is he just is a charisma vacuum and reads as unlikable as they come in basically all role except the one where his face was painted over.)
Anonymous:
Really bad, like how Dencik wasn't fired on the spot is beyond me, or at least how everyone on the set wasn't like "what the hell are you doing?" by how obviously misguided it is in terms of tone and character.
Shaggy:
1. Rutger Hauer - Blade Runner
2. Ian Holm - Alien
3. Veronica Cartwright - Alien
4. Jodie Comer - The Last Duel
5. Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
6. Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
7. Edward Norton - Kingdom of Heaven
8. Romain Duris - All the Money in the World
9. Ben Affleck - The Last Duel
10. Michelle Williams - All the Money in the World
11. Harvey Keitel - The Duellists
12. Christopher Plummer - All the Money in the World
13. Keith Carradine - The Duellists
14. Sigourney Weaver - Alien
15. Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
16. Al Pacino - House of Gucci
17. John Hurt - Alien
18. Ghasson Massoud - Kingdom of Heaven
19. Oliver Reed - Gladiator
20. Yaphet Kotto - Alien
Anonymous:
Cheadle & del Toro - 3.5(I should just stay away from Soderbergh I think, his choices just always annoy me, and this film, which thankfully limited the color filters just still bugged me. That is even with these two being totally fine as the leads, they bring the right hardboiled edge but also haplessness about them. Totally works.)
Harbour - (The most emotionally charge performance along with Seimetz even if it feels like the film forgets about him. He effectively though delivers the externalization then internalization of the man as he tries to keep it together both when directly faced by danger and when trying to keep his family safe. It is a good performance even if again I feel like Soderbergh just forgot about him at one point.)
Seimetz - 3.5(Like Harbour is very effective in kind of skirting the more stylized tone to portray more so the direct emotional distress of the situation and creating one of the few characters in the film that I could actually empathize with.)
Liotta - (Lame Liotta role, though he's fine.)
Fox - 2(I think proof perhaps that maybe no one should've praised her too much for Uncut Gems, as this is supposed to be a 50's housewife and she acts the exact same way she did in Gems. This however making far less sense, and with some truly bad line readings in there by how disconnected they felt from her scenes.)
Damon - (How many surprise turns will he get? Anyway I did think he was fine here, even though I don't really think he's the best guy to be the "revelatory' performer as he's so often cast as.)
Fraser - (Liked seeing him, and liked overall style he brought here as the professional type, but seemed kind of wasted as the film went on.)
I'll admit it says something about my feelings towards the film as I kind of forgot Hamm, Culkin and Duke were even in the film.
I've not seen No Time to Die and have little interest in doing so. But am a bit intrigued by Dencik's 0. What exactly did he do?? Are there any clips available? 😆
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