It's hard to think of a blanker performance than Lawrence's, which I mean as no slight to her.
If the blank performance of Mr. Taher impedes sympathy, the movie is visually splendid, and its portrayal of primitive retribution that knows no geographical borders is haunting.
(Actually that's a fair description of Mr. Rapp's worldview.) The contrast between Mr. Sparks's impressively blank performance and Yul's elaborate observations about the state of the world are initially amusing, but the absurdity soon becomes tiresome and grating; it's an empty gesture repeated endlessly and pointlessly.
Morvern is an authentic modern classic, with an actress, Samantha Morton, whose blank-faced performance is a perfect complement to Ramsay's studied camerawork.
Radnor is the star as well as the writer and director, and this has arguably resulted in a pretty blank, undemonstrative performance, and yet it is probably the only way to play the character without being cutesy.
The New York Times' Stephen Holden calls the film "a vile, witless sex comedy set" and says of its leading man, "Mr. Efron's blank, weightless performance indicates that he hasn't graduated beyond the fluff of 'High School Musical.'" Gormican, meanwhile, "desperately tries to outdo forerunners like the 'Hangover' movies in gross-out humor.
All extractions were performed along with solvent blanks, reagent blanks, and instrument performance standards.
It may not be Ms. Allen's fault, but the viewer is left to fill in the blanks in her performance.
Ms. Tyler gives her usual blank, cow-eyed performance, pitching her voice more quietly than usual and adding a tinge of sadness.
It is a restoration that goes a long way to correct the movie's political naivety, though it exposes the limitations of Martin Sheen's blank tough-guy performance, and it's topped off with an embarrassingly softcore Bilitis-style "erotic" moment.
The only review she quotes in her memoir is John Simon's: "There is a perfectly blank, supremely inept performance by Huston's daughter Anjelica, who has the face of an exhausted gnu, the voice of an unstrung tennis racket, and a figure of no discernible shape".
