Example sentences for: duvall

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  • Unlike most films about evangelicalism, it is not a condescending "put-down of redneck religion" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The most vigorous plaudits go to Duvall's performance; critics predict that it will revive his career from a slump and win him an Oscar nomination.

  • Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall are flat-out brilliant in the lead roles, backed by a strong supporting cast featuring Angelica Huston, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, and Rick Schroder.

  • Actor-director-writer Robert Duvall's film--about a Pentecostal preacher who beats his wife's lover into a coma--is deemed "the best movie ever about a man of God" (David Denby, New York ). The film's strength is said to be its uncompromising psychological complexity: It shows the preacher as both very good and extremely evil, without lapsing into moral condemnation.

  • At the same time, Duvall doesn't go soft on his character.

  • He might succeed, too, if it weren't for Jerome Facher (Robert Duvall), the Beatrice lawyer who knows how to keep Schlichtmann shadowboxing while his small firm's financial resources dwindle to nothing.


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