20 Best & Worst Movies From 2016 Oscar Nominees

16. Mark Rylance

Best: Bridge Of Spies (2015) Rylance's turn as the incriminated Soviet spy in Spielberg's excellent Men Talking In Rooms drama is an immensely charitable one: he is brilliantly subtle and offers a hilarious balance to Tom Hanks' more frenzied performance. And his permanently bemused expression, tinged with weariness never once betrays any hint that he's not as dangerous as he is stoic. You'll be hard-pressed to see any performance as textured and as simple. Worst: Days And Nights (2014) A fairly disastrous adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, Days And Nights should have suited Rylance's stage experience, but the reality was that in a packed cast that is almost entirely misused, he looks oddly out of his depth and his character is painfully under-written.
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