"Russell Crowe's hair-raising performance as Hermann Goring in Nuremberg is the latest example of the veteran actor's high-risk, high-reward approach. He has a knack for taking on difficult, baggage-laden roles that could have gone spectacularly badly only to deliver the goods and make you want to stand up and yell bravo! You'll struggle to find many other actors working today with an oeuvre as eclectic, varied and downright impressive as the Wellington-born star's. Here are his 20 greatest performances."
"Ron Howard's film about real-life boxer James J Braddock, aka Cinderella Man, is overlong and middle-of-the-road but Crowe's in fine form as the down-on-his-luck athlete who has a bung hand but maybe, just maybe, can mount a comeback. Sporting a convincingly rough-edged, working-class New Jersey accent, he softens the traditional bruiser archetype and makes potentially mawkish lines (I can't be a boxer no more!) land with disarming sincerity."
Russell Crowe repeatedly embraces high-risk, baggage-laden roles and transforms them into memorable, often triumphant performances. He excels at characters that could have been cartoonish or mawkish by finding emotional truth and intensity. Examples include his hair-raising portrayal of Hermann Goring in Nuremberg, the sympathetic down-on-his-luck boxer James J. Braddock in Cinderella Man, a terrifying psycho in Unhinged, and a corrupt mayor in Broken City. Crowe's versatility spans genres from biopic to thriller and crime drama. Crowe's Wellington origins are noted, and his career contains an eclectic and impressive body of work.
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