The end result was stodgy, enlivened only by an over-the-top performance from Laurence Olivier.
Charles Laughton's over-the-top performance as the ultimate Southern senator is itself worth the rental fee.
The satire is underplayed and unforced, with the exception of Mr. Nyman's profanity-spewing, over-the-top performance (which is, in its own right, quite funny).
Some lawyers argue that even an over-the-top performance by an informant who flashes money and pushes audacious terrorism schemes may serve the government well.
Choose instead between Renée Zellweger for her over-the-top performance in "Cold Mountain" and Patricia Clarkson for "Pieces of April".
Mr. Curry's penchant for over-the-top performance has been restrained here, scuttling what little chance this show had to be amusing.
I didn't see the press conference but all accounts of it suggest it was one over-the-top performance by the Hayemaker.
It's a giddy, occasionally over-the-top performance, but mesmerizing: a comic tour of the underbelly of Bangkok in pursuit of both a murderer and the sublime.
He is played by David Suchet (best known as Hercule Poirot) in an over-the-top performance whose tone is captured by an inadvertent image of him.
Giving an over-the-top performance that couldn't be contained by its camp quotation marks, Mr. Fierstein had walked off with the show.
The ensemble cast features Mr. Lewis and Ms. Paltrow, the director's daughter, but they're overshadowed by Mr. Giamatti's over-the-top performance as an alienated businessman.
