The two best performances I've seen on screen this year, Chiwetel Ejiofor in "12 Years a Slave" (Ejiofor should win an Academy Award on March 2) and Tom Hanks in "Captain Phillips" (Hanks, unaccountably, was not nominated for one), have one crucial thing in common. They are fundamentally reactive. These performances are not about doing anything, particularly. They are about survival. Therein resides their remarkable …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 01:00AM on February 3, 2014