The combination has a very unexpected depth of flavour — is it the honey, the dill, or the lightly caramelised fennel? (101cookbooks.com)
The capital, and the pre-games festivities are a study of insouciant decadence, as are the poignantly clueless media consultant Effie Trinket (played with unexpected depth by Elizabeth Banks beneath pounds of butterflies, or a tsunami of chiffon ruffles) and the plastic perfection of Stanley Tucci as the glib and smiling television host without a soul beneath the butterball brown of his tan and incandescent whiteness of his slightly too large teeth. (killermoviereviews.com)
Everyone here is funny within the terms of the characters, although the standouts of the main cast are Chandler, who exudes unexpected depth in his loser disguised as a winner once things really go south, and McAdams, who brings some bubbly but believable charm to the chaos. (markreviewsmovies.com)