Sentences with phrase «mostly serious performance»

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It's a serious and stylishly watchable drama, thanks mostly to Dhavernas's capable performance of a morally ambiguous person with too many dangerous irons in the fire, and Ryan's portrayal of a hurt - and - handsome lawman struggling to do his job, even though he's in love with his suspect.

But recently Maltin added half a star and included a mostly new write - up: «Intelligent, serious approach, exceptional special effects for the period, and a vigorous leading performance (by Grant Williams) result in a genuine sci - fi classic, unsurpassed by later attempts.»

As a straight up basic, somewhat crass comedy, Hot Tub is mostly effective and decent performances from John Cusack and Craig Robinson certainly balance the humorous elements in this story, with its more serious take on youth, and the decisions we make that shape our lives.

What «Straight Outta Compton» is, though, is an iridescent, monstrously entertaining musical biopic that mostly eschews cliché in favor of serious audiovisual pomp and a few of the year's best performances.

There are moments of levity, but the film is mostly serious and occasionally dark, giving Blanchett plenty to chew on, her performance as much physical as it is verbal.

The system succeeded in meeting this demand, but the way it did so, through increased use of conventional energy, and in spite of mediocre to poor performance from renewables, has raised serious questions about the country's ability to withstand similar shocks in the future, when much conventional capacity, mostly coal, will have retired without replacement.