Sam Rockwell won Best Supporting Actor for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, playing a violent racist policeman whom the film moves toward redemption, which generated considerable argument at the time.
Moon is the performance to argue for, carrying an entire film alone opposite himself, playing multiple clones with different degrees of deterioration.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Matchstick Men and The Way Way Back show the range, and he dances in a great many of his films because directors discovered he can.
He was in Galaxy Quest as the crewman convinced he will die first, which is a very precise comic performance.
Amy AdamsVice (2018) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Christian Bale gained around forty-five pounds and disappeared into Dick Cheney, in a film whose formal tricks keep interrupting a genuinely serious subject. Bale lost Best Actor to Rami…
Christopher WalkenMcDonagh's 2012 Hollywood meta-comedy. Farrell, Rockwell, Walken, Harrelson.
Barry Pepper
Alan Rickman
Daniel CraigSeen it three times across years. The 9 rating is honest evaluation.
Clark GreggRobert Downey Jr.'s strongest moments buried under franchise machinery. Black Widow's intro, War Machine's recasting, and Whiplash wasted.
Mos DefPeter Jones as the Book, Douglas Adams's voice intact, and the Vogon poetry torture. Dated, charming, better than the movie.
Danny DeVitoDavid Mamet wrote and directed. Heist is the writer-director showcase that closes out 2001's heist cinema trifecta.
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