The 10 best films of Tom Hardy, In order – Variety

Tom Hardy launches megaplex screens this weekend as a very powerful character in "Venom". So we thought that it might be time to rank the top 10 previous performances of the award-winning actor, to better appreciate his prodigious and impressive talent. versatility.

10. Creation (2010)

In Christopher Nolan's fantastic sci-fi thriller about a team of dreamweavers engaged to burst into the subconscious of a businessman, Hardy plays Eames, a master forger and identity thief, with an awesome sense of sartorial splendor and confident cunning from someone who has already read the script and knows that he will wake up in good shape.

9. The Black Knight Rises (2012)

As the brutal scourge of Batman's existence, Hardy repeatedly illustrates the accuracy of the saying that acts are more eloquent (or at least more intelligible) than words. Equally important, however, he strongly emphasizes in key scenes the similarities between supervillain and cult leader with respect to sub-youth control and the awakening of the populace in the final chapter of Christopher Nolan's triptych Caped Crusader.

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8. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Hardy's formidable physics and unassigned badassery make it a must-have choice for the title role of the post-apocalyptic adventurer Mel Gibson played decades ago. Best of all, it seals the deal by developing perfect chemistry, with co-starring Charlize Theron in the equally impressive role of Imperator Furiosa in one of the largest film groups in the world. ;action.

7. The ghost (2015)

There is something perversely exhilarating in the performance of an actor who is making fun of and who is bigger than ever and who does not care to point out qualities that redeem while playing a wildly selfish sociopath. Like John Fitzgerald, the brutal frontier who abandons his mutilated fellow traitor Hugh Glass (Leonard DiCaprio) and later tries to correct his "mistake" after Glass appears resurrected from the dead, Hardy is so fiercely and irreparably fierce that when his character is force -fed just desserts, even people who watch the movie at home may be tempted to stand up and cheer.

6. Dunkerque (2017)

Reunited with the director of "Dark Knight Rises," Christopher Nolan, Hardy again has the distorted voice and face partially concealed by a mask – in this case, the oxygen mask of a RAF bomber pilot Spitfire on a mission as part of the Second World War. All this makes the graceful eloquence under pressure of his performance all the more striking as his courageous character under fire remains alone in a cockpit and fights against long difficulties in one of the plot's son entangled in the timeline scenario from Nolan.

5. The drop (2014)

Hardy skillfully plays his cards near the waistcoat in Michael R. Roskam's slow-moving drama (which writer Dennis Lehane has adapted from his own story) about criminal activities past and present in a Boston neighborhood bar. The ambiguous reticence of his performance has the effect of keeping the public in suspense by wondering – sometimes with optimism, sometimes with fear – what are the secrets that could reveal his Bob Saginowsky, a taciturn bartender who reflexively protects a beaten woman (Noomi Raptor) and a wounded pit bull, but that also gives off the undeniable impression of someone who knows where all the bodies are buried and who is quite capable of making new plantings. Not for the first time, Hardy encourages us to imagine Marlon Brando playing his role – and to admit that even Brando would probably not have been able to beat what Hardy had done with this role.

4. Bronson (2008)

New York Time critic, AO Scott was not far from the target when he liked "Bronson" – Nicolas Winding Refn's boldly stylized biopic on a disgraceful British mercury criminal who spent most of his life the last forty years in solitary confinement – as "a bit like Stanley Kubrick's" Clockwork Orange & # 39; was imagined as a solo play. "Remember, the movie is not really a solo tour – there are support players here and there, some of whom are remarkable – but Hardy overwhelms them all with his bewitching representation of a psychopath who behaves in a whimsical way, that he be fantasized as a flamboyant stage performer or at the actual hostages behind bars, as that kind of most terrifying madman, somebody One who does not care what he has to do, or who he has to handle, to get the one thing he needs: the attention.

3. Legend (2015)

Tom Hardy co-starring with Tom Hardy in Brian Helgeland's elegant and factual drama about Reggie and Ron Kray, two twin brothers who established themselves as a living legend in London's gangster era. The aesthetic part of the double performance is that after a while, you stop looking for the kind of technical trick that was needed for Hardy to play both men in the same frame, and you focus on the masterful definition of each Brother: Ron, a loose cannon that sometimes lets hear that Hardy's "Bronson" character is drifting somewhere on the autism ladder, and Reggie, a much more stable, ambitious criminal and mindful of his image, who is nevertheless willing to inflict serious bodily harm.

2. Warrior (2011)

For some critics (including yours), Hardy did not really become a force to be considered until he appeared alongside Joel Edgerton in Gavin O'Connor in the improbably effective and touching drama. two brothers very long destined to fight as fighters. in a mixed martial arts tournament. As I noted in my original review Variety: "Recalling from time to time the lethal and threatening virility of a young Marlon Brando, Hardy is of a striking intensity like Tommy, alternately implosive. and explosive when it alternates guilt and rage, savagery and self-contempt. "But wait, there's more: he also proved that he was perfectly matched to Nick Nolte, who was rarely better, as a that father of the brothers who were fighting.

1. Locke (2013)

Hardy hits the road for a solo flight in the incredibly arresting and extraordinarily striking chamber drama of Steven Knight, director and screenwriter – good, OK, ride this car drama – who follows foreman Ivan Locke during a walk between Birmingham and London. As we travel with him away from the immediate demands of his workplace and further away from his impatient wife and children, we only gradually realize that Locke is motivated by the desperate desire to "do the right thing" at home. worst possible time, a motivation that is probably inspired by a life recalling a singularly bad example. Hardy is the only person we see on the screen – the support players are just voices on his speaker – and his meticulously detailed and remarkably multiform performance (which earned him a Los Angeles award Film Critics Association) easily transforms us into his totally pierced travel companions. .