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She does a great job, and absolutely steals the show with her moody and understated performance.
Gong Li fans will be unsurprised to hear she is as stunningly beautiful as ever, giving an understated performance.
He is a very understated actor and he deserves much more credit than he has received.
The brilliant stylings of Fred Willard, the understated performances of so many others, which is a characteristic not normally associated with Americans or American actors.
Donal McCann and Angelica Huston shine (although "shine" is too showy, too flashy a word to describe their quiet, understated performances).
The entire cast is outstanding, as is Martin Ritt's sublimely understated direction.
Aside from Peter O'Toole's wonderfully controlled, understated performance as the pedantic schoolmaster who finds love and is changed by it, the film contains hundreds of stunning visuals, from Grecian ruins to London side streets to an extended countryside montage.
It's not "good" but interesting in an understated way.
I am a relative latecomer to the transcendent work of film auteur Yasujiro Ozu, whose masterfully understated views of Japanese life, especially in the post-WWII era, illuminate universal truths.
Sheedy's meticulous, understated performance (though she often seems to be on automatic pilot) is admirable in itself but out of context with the rest.
The story is very tongue in cheek, and the dialog skillfully understated.
Kolchak investigates and uncovers this horrible truth, much to the chagrin of police captain Joe "Mad Dog" Siska(wonderfully essayed by a grumpy Keenan Wynn)and the head sleep researcher played by Second City improv founder, Severn Darden, to droll, understated perfection.
While this movie's style isn't as understated and realistic as a sound version probably would have been, this is still a very good film.
A wonderful film, filled with great understated performance and sharp, intelligent dialogue.
Weber was especially good, turning in an exceptionally creepy and understated performance as the child molester/killer.
Its action is more understated, yet more surprising and clever.
I was particularly moved by the understated courage and integrity of l'Anglaise, in this beautifully acted, intellectually and visually compelling film.
Robby Muller's camera captures it all with an understated simplicity that seems accidental, but surely isn't.
The acting is wonderful and understated, with every gesture and smile and nod carrying meaning.
Micheal Cane turns in a quietly understated performance in his role,which works brilliantly in this case.the
Once again, Billy Zane proves he's more than just a Hollywood pretty boy in a silent performance that combines spastic slapstick with understated pathos.
The understated cinematography is superb and terribly realistic.
Tomei is funny but understated while the Cusack's own nearly every scene they are in.
Viewers who appreciate a well-made, atmospheric, but understated horror film may appreciate this.
It's not just an impression -- things do happen in the movie -- but the plot is understated.
As villified as the whites (particularly the Afrikaners) are portrayed in the film, any observant (non-casual) visitor to South Africa even now in 1999, not to mention 1977 when CRY FREEDOM takes place, will generally find white's attitudes towards blacks restrained, even understated.
When the camera is moving, every shot is planned to understated perfection.
Every actor in every role is terrific, especially a wise and understated Jamie Lee Curtis, a tightly wound and anguished Ray Liotta, and a heart-stopping turn from Tom Hulce that should have had him up for every award in the book.
The casting is inspired: Nolte is understated in triumph, bewildered in defeat, decisive in judgment.
'The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine' is one of the more understated episodes, focusing on an aging movie star's inability to cope with the changing times and only introducing a supernatural element in the closing minutes.
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