There is an engaging realist style here, and some forthright performances, but it does not quite achieve the depth and narrative satisfaction that the drama appeared at first to promise.
Radcliffe gives a forthright and candid performance as Ginsberg, very plausibly representing his idealism and sexual naivety.
This was a forthright, noble performance, powerful for the same stark straightforwardness that characterised Runnicles's reading of the Pärt.
What we said: The movie skirts the edge of absurdity as anything like this must, but a forthright star performance from Amy Adams convinces you that something that could be silly is actually fascinating and deeply scary.
Because Robert's type is increasingly anachronistic in today's sexually forthright society, Mr. Harris's performance reminds you to what degree "Company" -- the most modern show of its time -- is now a period piece.
Burgess was equally forthright, noting: "After the performance against France we need to look at ourselves, the further we look away from our group [and at the Kiwis], we might become distracted.
Artists came to scrutinize and protest the very conditions and institutions under which art is produced, and married the aesthetic charge of their performances to forthright political action.
Brian McDermott, the Harlequins coach, was typically forthright about his side's performance: "I thought we were terrible," he said.
Crammed with colorful interviews, digital animation and live performances, this frisky and forthright film by Dean Budnick chronicles a vision of financing social progress with really great tunes.
Omeilan doesn't write jokes as such, but she is a naturally funny performer devising a new approach to comedy; she's ballsy, forthright and her energy is infectious – the kind of performance that makes the fringe so exciting.
Carol Olten of The San Diego Union-Tribune declared Tender Mercies the best movie of 1983, and "the most poignant, but forthright, film of the year, with a brilliant performance by Robert Duvall".
