10 Amazing Acting Performances To Watch On Netflix

If anything, the internet banter pages enamoured with Bill Murray and his antics have served to lessen his talents as an actor. While it’s completely understandable that they should love Murray and his 'laddish' behaviour, it is a love born out of appreciation for his persona, and not his actual comedic brilliance. And while Murray is a comic at heart, the fact remains that his is a far more melancholy brand than the Lad Bible would have you believe.

Take this, his sublime, tragi-comic turn as washed-up actor Bob Harris, in Sofia Coppola’s modern masterpiece. Holed-up in a grand hotel in an alien land (Tokyo), Harris finds solace, and perhaps something else, in Charlotte, an attractive, intelligent young woman he meets at the bar. In one of the most nuanced pieces of acting of the last two decades, Murray playfully draws on his comedic techniques to convey something altogether lonelier and deeper, while still always managing to raise the laughs. 

Much has been made of the ending of Lost In Translation, of what Harris whispers in the Charlotte’s ear. The truth is that it really doesn’t matter, and while audiences determined to find the 'answers' to the films they watch will be left feeling annoyed, others should find an ambiguous beauty, an acknowledgement that what’s important is not what was actually said, but what could’ve been.