Peter Stormare came from the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where he worked under Ingmar Bergman for eleven years, which is not what his American filmography suggests.
Fargo gives him Gaear Grimsrud, who says almost nothing across the film and operates the woodchipper, and the silence is what makes it work.
The Big Lebowski gives him a nihilist, and Armageddon and Constantine fill out the genre work. He has directed for the stage and released music.
Amy Morton8MM (1999) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Joel Schumacher directing Andrew Kevin Walker's script about a private investigator tracing a snuff film, with Nicolas Cage restrained and Joaquin Phoenix excellent, undone by a third act that…
Christian SlaterPaco Cabezas's 2014 Stallone vehicle. Competent later-career Stallone work that does not exceed established conventions.
Djimon HounsouConstantine is a better film than its reputation suggests. Francis Lawrence directed in his feature debut.
Frances McDormandFargo is one of the best American films of the 1990s and one of the most distinctive achievements in the Coen Brothers filmography. The two cowrote the screenplay.
Ben AffleckArmageddon is Michael Bay's most complete expression of Michael Bay: maximum volume, minimum coherence, emotional manipulation deployed at maximum intensi. The scientific inaccuracies in Armageddon are not the casual inaccuracies of a film that chose story over accuracy.
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