Sentences with word «hamminess»

West Coast hitwoman Irene Walker is the perfect understated foil for the Brooklyn hamminess of mob trigger man Charley Partanna.

Beyond Braff at the helm, Going in Style is scripted by Theodore Melfi, the recently Oscar - nominated writer / director behind Hidden Figures, which similarly followed a trio of undervalued people — in that case, three brilliant - but - overlooked black female NASA scientists — and found a way to make its dramatic hamminess (mostly) work to its own advantage.

The high winds of hamminess roar through the rafters in Corinna McFarlane's The Silent Storm (2 *, 16, 102 mins), a po - faced drama set on a remote Scottish island just after the Second World War.

Only Dance's brief appearance, in its slithery menace, registers with a knowing hamminess that perhaps the rest of the film could use more of.Hide

Sure, certain moments allow for a bit of hamminess from your lead villain, a gripping showdown in the throne room and one moment that sees her break down at the loss of her prisoner, but when every scene she is in involves screaming and bulging of the eyes, we get tired of this interesting villain very quickly.

This style doesn't just extend to Jack Nicholson's galvanizing hamminess as the Joker, but also trickles down to its supporting players (William Hootkins's wearily deep - voiced Lt. Eckhardt, Robert Wuhl's enthusiastically pushy journalist, and so on).

Albert Finney's decline into hamminess continues; here he displays an acting style akin to a drowning man waving his arms to stay afloat.

On stage, Nathan Lane gets by on hamminess and good timing, but on screen there's no subtext, nothing in reserve: He's more one - dimensional than the average cartoon character.

James McAvoy's Dr. Frankenstein is equally frustrating to watch; the actor brings a sense of unhinged comic hamminess that becomes more grating and performative as the film progresses.

Most games, books and even movies that set out to capture that classic hamminess fail through trying too hard, but Punch Club manages to mostly get it right.

Or is the camped - up hamminess of the film somehow a clue to Bock's own sensibility?

He brings thespian finesse to an otherwise hammy acting ensemble — and I say that with full love for the essential, and irreplaceable, hamminess of Star Trek.

The supporting cast were a little guilty of hamminess (especially the admittedly attractively sultry Doris Dowling) but as a whole it hung together thanks to a strong central performance by the star.

Some of McAvoy's characterizations, particularly when he's playing a female or homosexual personality, ride a similar line between virtuosity and hamminess, while Taylor - Joy fades into the background as a girl who's capable but not exactly heroic.

Indeed, with the exception of Sutherland's preening tyrant, the entire cast has dialed down the hamminess of the earlier films, from Banks's Effie to Stanley Tucci's Caesar Flickerman to Woody Harrelson's Haymitch Abernathy.

Neither actress ever devolves into stereotypical histrionics or hamminess and both come across as full - fledged human beings; it's tremendously easy to forget that they're acting as the film often appear almost like a documentary.

He's a great character actor but always seems to ham it up as villains, and the hamminess here is hysterically ineffective.