Scene Stealers: Nicholas Hoult in The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite is deliberately, unsettlingly claustrophobic – all fish-eye queasiness and endless corridors. Yet it derives much of its brilliance from freedom. Freedom from slavish...
Scene Stealers: Ian McShane in Hot Rod
He’s Al Swearengen. He’s Lovejoy. He’s Odin. He’s Lancashire’s greatest export since the Jelly Baby. You know him, you fear him, you can’t resist his wild eyes – Ian McShane has us all in the...
Scene Stealers: Linda Cardellini in A Simple Favor
Peter Farrelly's Green Book may be a politically regressive movie directed by a onetime sex pest, but at least it also wastes three very talented actors. Viggo Mortensen has been a household name since his...
Scene Stealers: Jack Black in High Fidelity
It’s fair to say that Jack Black is a bit of a ‘marmite’ actor. You’ll either love his unique brand of brashness and lack of subtlety, or it’ll have you avoiding a film at all costs. This persona has...
Scene Stealers: Ann Dowd in Garden State
If you've only got to know Ann Dowd through her recent roles in Hereditary and TV's The Handmaid's Tale (like a certain writer, ahem), you'd be forgiven for wanting to steer well clear of her if you ever met...
Scene Stealers: Emma Thompson in Love, Actually
Love, Actually is one of those movies that, come December, you either embrace wholeheartedly, or avoid like the Bubonic plague. Aside from Andrew Lincoln's wooing of Keira Knightley via Bob-Dylan style cue...
Scene Stealers: Barry Humphries in Finding Nemo
Why do we never talk about how great the villains in Pixar movies are? From Sid in Toy Story to Randall in Monsters, Inc., the cold and analytical autopilot in WALL-E to Antoine Ego in Ratatouille, Pixar's...
Scene Stealers: Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea
Samuel L. Jackson? A scene stealer in Deep Blue Sea? But wasn't he the star of that movie? Well, yes and no. Just go with this. 1999's cult favourite, about a group of genetically engineered sharks going on...
Scene Stealers: Michael Stuhlbarg in Call Me By Your Name
Though the majority of our Scene Stealers inductees are made up of scenery-chewing tour-de-forces and unexpectedly bizarre cameos, our latest entry stands as perhaps one of the series' most understated...
Scene Stealers: Holly Hunter in The Big Sick
In recent months, we’ve been absolutely spoiled when it comes to great parents onscreen. Laurie Metcalf got a deserved Oscar nom for Lady Bird, Michael Stuhlbarg should have got the same for Call Me By Your...
Scene Stealers: Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds
It seems like every other day we get an announcement of another actor that Quentin Tarantino has convinced to join his upcoming Manson-era epic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The last time Tarantino assembled...
Scene Stealers: Jeff Goldblum in Thor: Ragnarok
Jeff Goldblum has been stealing scenes on silver screens for a long time now, and so it should come as no surprise that he was at it again in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok as the eccentric Grandmaster. Sporting...
Scene Stealers: Donald Glover in The Martian
It’s a phrase bandied about quite a lot in the entertainment world, but Donald Glover is quite genuinely a man of many talents. When he’s not preparing to join a galaxy far, far away as a young Lando...
Scene Stealers: Charlie Day in Pacific Rim
The first thing to come to mind when someone mentions Pacific Rim – and now its sequel, out this Friday – is bombastic cartoon violence between kaiju monsters and giant mecha, writ large in 3D-IMAX glory....
Scene Stealers: Andrea Riseborough in The Death of Stalin
Andrea Riseborough is having a bit of a moment. Of course she’s not exactly a newcomer to success or critical acclaim. Still, the almost simultaneous releases of The Death of Stalin and Battle of the Sexes...