 | Great Performance:
Meryl Streep |  | At the time Meryl Streep can’t have known she was anchoring a three-hour epic muted by post-Vietnam gloom and amplified in the experience of the American... more |
|
| |
|  | Great Performance:
Hanna Schygulla | | | “It’s not a good time to have feelings and that suits me,” remarks the title character in The Marriage of Maria Braun. Given the sentiment inherent... more |
|
|
 | Great Performance:
Michael Keaton | | | Often to his detriment, Michael Keaton plays the part of the man on the go, even when he need not, such are the snares created by the mannerist performer.... more |
|
| |
 | Great Performance:
Mickey Rourke | | | In Barfly, Mickey Rourke is so good as Henry Chinaski, the title character who drinks, fights and scribbles poetry, the laughs he inspires almost... more |
|
|  | Great Performance:
Wagner Moura | | | Perverse institutions are created under the abuse of power, declares a student invoking Foucault in one of the university tutorials in Elite Squad.... more |
|
|
 | Great Performance:
John Dunsworth | | | Watch it alone for its spectacular belligerence. Trailer Park Boys: The Movie is an absolute immersion in sustained lunacy, and as feature filmmaking... more |
|
|  | Great Performance:
Ray Milland | | | A certain pleasure can be derived from watching a great actor read, as they say, between the lines. The experience can sometimes be bettered, however,... more |
|
|
 | Great Performance:
Kathleen Turner | | | Nowadays she may have gone to fat and upset Nicolas Cage in her tell-all autobiography Send Yourself Roses, but in her heyday Kathleen Turner was... more |
|
|  | Great Performance:
Michael Shannon | | | Love trumps loneliness in Bug, William Friedkin’s best film in more than two decades. Confined mostly to the deteriorating interior of a desert... more |
|
|
 | Great Performance:
Isabelle Adjani | | | A study in operatic hysteria featuring performances equal to the task, Possession, Andrej Zulawski’s 1981 marriage meltdown of inconvenience, dramatises... more |
|
| |
 | Great Performance:
Casey Affleck | | | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford may fall short of attaining the status of modern classic, and yet the performance by... more |
|
|  | Great Performance:
Julianne Moore | | | That Nicole Kidman received an Academy Award for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours was so very wrong. What made it even more unforgiveable... more |
|
|
 | Great Performance:
Laura Linney | | | Laura Linney makes for a formidable presence. To date her career is littered with compelling reminders of why she matters as an actress, in virtually... more |
|
|  | Great Performance:
Robert Downey Jr. | | | F. Scott Fitzgerald may not have thought much of the second act in American lives but in the movies, especially those bankrolled by Hollywood, it’s not... more |
|
|
 | Great Performance:
Gena Rowlands | | | A Woman Under the Influence opens with foreman Peter Falk and his workers slogging through the aftermath of a burst sewer line, and from this point... more |
|
| |
 | Great Performance:
Damian Lewis | | | Eyes ablaze with inner turmoil, a late 30-something male stalks the Manhattan Port Authority bus terminal, clutching a news clipping he claims concerns... more |
|
| |
