Too much rides on Ray's charisma, and while Mr. Schreiber has considerable presence, the script pushes it so relentlessly that Ray's brooding silences become almost laughable.
The script reflects considerable imagination and contains a few knowing jokes.
On tracks that can last an hour, changes start off microscopic, then become surging, as the three trade off melody lines and rhythms to no set script to considerable emotional effect.
Sorkin's script takes considerable factual liberties, such as the way marketing executive Joanna Hoffman, played by Kate Winslet, appears throughout the movie, despite the fact she was no longer with Apple in 1997.
Timothy Scott Harris's script shows considerable insight into human behavior, but the more earnest second act feels like a comedown, as if somebody's mom just walked in, after the likable goofiness of the play's beginning.
Branagh is superb throughout as he lends his considerable acting chops to a script that explores the different ways in which the past haunts the present.
Jones should surely take home the trophy for acting that avoids easy sentimentality and, as they say on the election pages, it would be a considerable upset if Peter Bowker's script doesn't secure victory in the single drama section.
Sure, it requires considerable suspension of disbelief: the script was adapted from the memoirs of Beth Raymer, a free-spirited hustler-turned-writer who shakes up the lives of everyone she meets.
Ms. Souza, who is also a songwriter of considerable gifts, departed from the script only once: it was to perform a musical setting of Poem No. 49 from Pablo Neruda's "100 Love Sonnets," written in a harmonically open structure, with the African thumb-piano her only accompaniment, plucked in cycling rhythm.
Another is the director, Benjamin Kamine, who navigates the play's choppy key changes from camp to scriptural seriousness (a large amount of the text is taken straight from the Bible) with intelligence, and who, with stage savvy and a remarkable eye for detail, packs some considerable dramatic meat onto the script's mostly bare bones.
