10 Actors Who Just Gave Their Best Performance Out Of NOWHERE
1. David Krumholtz - Lousy Carter
David Krumholtz has been delivering impressionable performances ever since he played Joel Glicker in Addams Family Values over 30 years ago, and though his recent appearance in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer marks a sure career high for the actor, it's not quite his best performance overall. Well, not anymore at least.
Krumholtz's most recent project, low-budget indie dramedy Lousy Carter, casts him quite perfectly as a curmudgeonly middle-aged college professor who finds out he has six months to live.
It's honestly tough to think of a more fitting marriage of player and part in recent memory - Krumholtz is a master of playing sandpaper-dry, relentlessly cynical characters, and this might well be his final form in that regard.
It's a slight movie with basic visuals and an almost-too-short 80-minute runtime, but Krumholtz makes every second of screen time count, in turn offering up a showcase for his sorely underused skills as a magnetic leading man. More of this, please.