Sentences with phrase «stilted line readings»

A parallel problem, as if this film needed one, is that Luhrmann's direction of his actors cudgels every instinct of naturalness out of them and pushes everyone, even as instinctively genuine an actress as Mulligan, toward overblown characterizations and stilted line readings.

Only Kikuchi, as the Lady Macbeth - like witch who helps set the main events into motion, seems to be having any fun, turning her stilted line readings into arias of delicious camp.

The three central characters are all blandly pretty faces who give continuously stilted line readings and never convincingly embody their respective mythic archetypes, so it's up to the old pros to pick up the slack.

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In true Hanna - Barbera fashion, many of the line readings are rather stilted, and recycled animation is easy to spot.

Poor line readings often go hand in hand with badly written dialogue, but when the stale narration stops and Lively's character and her stilted line deliveries are pushed into the background of the film, things immediately improve.

Some of the supporting performances now seem dated and the line readings stilted; dialogue such as «How will I ever be able to thank you?