Film Critic Richard Brody on the Best Performances of the Twenty-First Century

Film Critic Richard Brody on the Best Performances of the Twenty-First Century | The New Yorker

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The film critic discusses his five favorite American performances of the century.
00:00 Richard Brody's Top Film Performances
00:14 Mahershala Ali - "Moonlight"
01:20 Miranda July - "The Future"
03:44 Anna Paquin - "Margaret"
03:53 Helena Howard - "Madeline's Madeline"
05:40 Leonardo DiCaprio - "The Wolf of Wall Street"
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@richardbocanegra5945 9 ай бұрын

Isabelle Huppert in "The Piano Teacher"..❤😂🎉

@pb.j.1753 9 ай бұрын

Margaret truly is a masterpiece. It's three hours long, dense as a novel but easy to watch.

@khalidalali186 9 ай бұрын

Dude looks like a Russian serf straight out of the Romanov era.

@TheGoodfella2012 9 ай бұрын

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood is #1 of all centuries. Cate Blancett in Tar.

@khalidalali186 9 ай бұрын

Agreed. That 2007 masterpiece is for the ages. I must’ve watched it twice so far in this year alone.

@richardbocanegra5945 9 ай бұрын

TAR is the most pretentious movie ever made .. glad it walked away with NOTHING.

@TheGoodfella2012 9 ай бұрын

@@richardbocanegra5945 No.

@AmedeeBoulette 9 ай бұрын

+1 for Lewis.

@SuperWhofan1 4 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@vincechiu1455 9 ай бұрын

Calls out Leo for best performance of the century. Shows clip of Jonah Hill.

@AmedeeBoulette 9 ай бұрын

I was expecting Daniel D. Lewis in There Will Be Blood.

@AllInTheGame01 9 ай бұрын

Bet most would've expected DDL in There Will Be Blood!

@RobVespa 9 ай бұрын

Interesting list. Do you keep a (publicly available) log of the films you've experienced?

@barrymoore4470 2 ай бұрын

Some five more among the greatest film performances of the century so far, irrespective of nationality (all cited in chronological order): --Heath Ledger in 'Brokeback Mountain' (2005) --Uggie in 'The Artist' (2011) --Quvenzhané Wallis in 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' (2012) --Géza Röhrig in 'Saul fia' (2015) --Timothée Chalamet in 'Call Me by Your Name' (2017)

@mdhh7859 8 ай бұрын

Excellent 🎉🎉🎉 video

@filipkartousek 9 ай бұрын

I love Brody

@ChristopherCampNYC 9 ай бұрын

yes to Madeline's Madeline

@dbii6349 9 ай бұрын

The best performance would be watching Mr. Brody eat cotton candy off a cone.

@shavedraven 9 ай бұрын

Great list 👍

@BryceBreslin 9 ай бұрын

People may sneer but Denzel Washington kicked the century awake w his performance in Training Day. That early high-water mark still comes back to me. Didnt love the movie itself but his performance was unforgettable. He was at his greatest height - all the rawness he brought to early movies like Glory but subdued and strengthened by the craft he'd perfected since then.

@sdinale1559 9 ай бұрын

Very New York centric, which isn’t surprising, but is nonetheless a bit myopic.

@mariarohmer2374 9 ай бұрын

Agreed! Not just a bit either.

@paillette2010 9 ай бұрын

Maybe call it “best cinematic performances of the last decade”

@jordand.6032 8 ай бұрын

Wolf of Wall Street as best movie of the century is insane

@Pingpinhpinh 2 ай бұрын

It is

@oddmammal 9 ай бұрын

Not American, but my favourite performance is Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Never seen anything like it.

@pb.j.1753 9 ай бұрын

English-speaking: 1. Elizabeth Olsen - Martha Marcy May Marlene 2. Carey Mulligan - Wildlife 3. Ethan Hawke - First Reformed 4. Timothée Chalamet - Call Me By Your Name 5. Joaquin Phoenix - Her "International": 1. Sandra Hüller - Toni Erdmann 2. Isabelle Huppert - Things to Come 3. Mélanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds 4. Maggie Cheung - In the Mood for Love 5. Mišel Matičević - Exile

@angelorossowrites 9 ай бұрын

Ethan was amazing in FR:)

@angelrojo6466 9 ай бұрын

Michelle Williams in Wendy & Lucy.

@mariarohmer2374 9 ай бұрын

I love that you know this film! It was gut wrenching. I love Kelly Reichardt's vision.

@mjthelegend1 5 ай бұрын

Always admired Brody's opinions, but Wolf of Wall Street the best film of the century?!

@sprinteroptions9490 9 ай бұрын

How very diverse

@perspicaciouscritic 9 ай бұрын

Film Critic Richard Brody really doesn't sound like he looks. With his hirsute appearance, I expect him to sound more like Gandalf.

@brk5590 9 ай бұрын

Dostoyevski is delusional.

@artmaltman 9 ай бұрын

Oppenheimer?

@AmedeeBoulette 9 ай бұрын

A deafening NO.

@ydalir 9 ай бұрын

Amazing how all five just so happen to be English-language films..!

@shavedraven 9 ай бұрын

Considering he's making a list of performances in American cinema as he states at the outset of the video, that seems quite appropriate..!

@RP-we1rs 9 ай бұрын

ugh... Every opinion he has is determined by how he wants to appear. Most tedious film critic ever.

@Mauricio21ish 8 ай бұрын

Mahershala Ali doesn’t deserve a spot on this list, or an oscar for that performance. Would’ve rather seen Charlize Theron for Monster