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The chief difficulty with the play is that Mommo's story -- even delivered in a captivating performance by Pauline Flanagan -- is almost impossible to parse.

(Brantley) 'JUMP/CUT' Neena Beber's play about an aspiring filmmaker's effort to document his best friend's illness limns despair while leaving the audience exhilarated -- by the fierce beauty of Beber's writing, and by a captivating performance by Luke Kirby as the brilliant, charismatic, darkly funny manic-depressive whose inescapable fate is the central mystery of the work (2 10).

(Zinoman) 'JUMP/CUT' Neena Beber's play about an aspiring filmmaker's effort to document his best friend's illness limns despair while leaving the audience exhilarated -- by the fierce beauty of Ms. Beber's writing, and by a captivating performance by Luke Kirby as the brilliant, charismatic, darkly funny manic-depressive whose inescapable fate is the central mystery of the work (2 10).

And in Kate's agitated, self-conscious but self-aware account — delivered by Ms. Wyatt in a captivating performance, directed by Joe Murphy — we see a Britain in the throes of seething ethnic strife.

And in a fine cast, Ms. Cheung delivers a captivating performance.

And it is such a captivating performance that you can forgive the hyperbole.

According to Variety, he gives "a captivating performance", enabling audiences to sympathise with an easily dislikable and difficult character.

Cameron Bethany of Unapologetic record label and production company gives a captivating performance.

Captivating performances by the cast — most notably, a brilliant turn by Adam LeFevre, as a local peacemaker — more than compensate for the play's few minor missteps in logic, especially the pat final few minutes.

Propelled by a captivating, wrenching performance by Karine Vanasse as Hanna, a 13-year-old girl adrift in a sea of powerful emotions in Montreal in 1963, the heartfelt "Set Me Free" is simultaneously an insightful family portrait, a homage to the French New Wave and a testament to the potential of film to shape and redeem life.

And at its heart is a likable character and an oddly captivating performance from Davies.