And here you have your first reason to smile as you realize that Samson, while giving a thoroughly phony performance, is also telling the truth.
A plot of insufferable silliness contrives to keep the lovers on tenterhooks and the audience in a permanent cringe, none of it helped by Thurman's thoroughly phony performance – Firth looks comparatively sincere.
Epp's Tartuffe is a virtuoso of shamelessness, an impostor who thrills at his own phony performance.
The movie received unfavorable reviews, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote: "Pfeiffer, apparently stymied by the bland clichés that prop up her screechy role, delivers her flattest, phoniest performance ever".
I tried to get them to understand how I feel when I see Denzel Washington in 'The Hurricane,' which I find such a phony, false performance in which I see him overdramatize every line he says.
Reflecting on the film a decade after it came out, critic Danny Peary said he found Duvall's restrained portrayal "extremely irritating" and criticized the entire cast, save for Buckley, for their "subdued, emotions-in-check, phony 'honest' performances.
Long-suffering citizens will not get what they pay for, but they will surely pay for what they get: Waste, shoddy performance and phony cost overruns can all be covered up by bribes.
In the suit, investors said they overpaid for G.E. stock in 1993 and 1994 because Mr. Jett created phony profits that overstated Kidder's financial performance by $350 million.
As the movie drags on, her performance swells to bursting with moral vanity and phony populism.
That day, Mr. Brown provided damaging testimony against all the Rigases, describing a variety of accounting gimmicks, sham transactions and phony financial reports that helped Adelphia mask the eroding financial performance that led to its filing for bankruptcy protection in June 2002.
The Bayou Group's founder, Samuel Israel, and chief financial officer, Daniel E. Marino, pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges in September 2005 for using fake results and phony accounting to fool investors about the firm's investment performance.
