Ranking Our Top 5 Denzel Washington Performances
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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On the November 21, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor, Jacob Hall, editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista, and /Film writer Jeremy Smith to determine our top 5 Denzel Washington performances.
In Our Feature Presentation: Top 5 Denzel Washington Performances
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, welcome to Slashfilm Daily. |
| 0:01.9 | Today is Thursday, November 21st, 2024. |
| 0:04.6 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to try to determine our top five Denzel Washington performances. |
| 0:09.8 | My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm an editor at slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm editor, |
| 0:14.6 | Jacob Hall. |
| 0:15.4 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:16.9 | Editor and chief film critic, Chris Evangelista. |
| 0:19.8 | Hi. |
| 0:23.0 | And Slash film writer Jeremy Smith. Jeremy, |
| 0:27.2 | welcome for the first time. How you doing? Howdy. Great. Great to be here. Excellent. |
| 0:32.1 | Glad to have you. So Jacob, since Gladiator 2 technically comes out tonight and since Denzel's performance has been almost universally praised in that film as being like an element |
| 0:37.1 | that elevates an |
| 0:38.0 | otherwise okay movie we thought it might be fun to come up with a group list of our favorite |
| 0:41.8 | Denzel Washington performances so why don't you take the reins here yeah I've spoken to enough |
| 0:48.1 | people have seen gladi or two and I haven't seen it yet I'm seeing it later today and the |
| 0:53.1 | reactions of the film range from very good to pretty bad, but the one thing |
| 0:58.1 | everybody says is, but Denzel's great in it. |
| 1:00.9 | And I feel like that's such a recurring element across his entire career. |
| 1:04.8 | I can't think of an actively bad Denzel Washington performance. |
| 1:07.4 | There may be the performances where he's leaning on some of his tricks |
| 1:11.5 | maybe a little in a little too familiar way. But I don't know there's ever been at a time |
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