Paul Giamatti was nominated for Cinderella Man and The Holdovers, and his particular register is a clever man who is furious about his circumstances and cannot say so directly.
Sideways is the essential performance, playing a failed novelist and wine snob whose self-pity the film refuses to indulge, and its omission from the nominations that year was widely criticised.
American Splendor, in which he plays Harvey Pekar alongside the real Pekar appearing in the same film, is the formally strange one. He is the son of a Yale president and a baseball commissioner.
Holly HunterStar Trek: Starfleet Academy rates minus ten thousand on the rewatch scale. It is the worst thing I have ever watched, film or television, and that includes Battlefield Earth. Pure garbage. Horseshit. Something written by small children with crayons on…
Paul GiamattiSideways (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two middle-aged men drive north for a week of wine tasting before one of them gets married, and both of them are worse people than the film initially lets…
Alexandra DaddarioSan Andreas is a Dwayne Johnson disaster movie. Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a Los Angeles Fire Department rescue pilot whose helicopter and skill set turn out to be exactly what is needed when a magnitude nine earthquake destroys California.
Anya Taylor-JoyMorgan is the film Luke Scott made instead of inheriting his father's career on better terms. It also deserved less than the marketing implied.
Adam GoldbergSteven Spielberg's WWII masterpiece. Omaha Beach opening is the best war scene ever filmed.
Aaron EckhartThe 10 rating reflects honest evaluation that critics never gave the film. Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a reverse engineer specializing in proprietary technology.
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