Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, whose memory will not hold, in Memento. The review picked out for the month finds that performance wholly convincing and describes it as stubborn determination joined to an open-mouthed bewilderment. Philip Kemp's review of Ravenous works the other way round: it counts him wonderful as the honest policeman of L.A. Confidential, but says there was little he could do here with a part that leaves him mostly reacting. The piece on The Hurt Locker divides the film's guest appearances in two and puts him on the credit side. Kemp names him in The King's Speech as well, as a self-satisfied society man. A fifth piece, signed by Mark Kermode, takes his work as a prosecutor for a show-stealing effect.