Gerlich is the only character with judgment and moral courage, and Mr. Modine's twitchy, self-conscious performance undermines his message.
It was a film that exasperatingly failed to deliver on its promise, featuring a somewhat self-conscious performance from Marling.
It's a more self-conscious performance, with that slooooower British voice (actually, a prototype for Maggie), the black cloak and the frizzier-than-usual hair.
For the Gounod aria at Friday's early show, she unfurled her moderately impressive operatic technique and gave her most appealing (and least self-conscious) performance.
Fanning has about her what Penelope Fitzgerald, in her novel about child actors, At Freddie's, described as "the bright airs of the indulged", a simultaneous innocence and self-conscious performance of innocence.
Its element of reconstruction and self-conscious performance is subordinated to the unity of its narrative, whereas in "Moi, Un Noir"—and even more radically in his next feature, "The Human Pyramid," which features the performers watching their movie together and discussing it onscreen it's in the foreground.
Its element of reconstruction and self-conscious performance is subordinated to the unity of its narrative, whereas in "Moi, Un Noir" — and even more radically in his next feature, "The Human Pyramid," which features the performers watching their movie together and discussing it onscreen — it's in the foreground.
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Kind allowed the comedy to emerge directly from the character, something Ferguson wasn't quite able to manage in his rather self-conscious performance as Leo.
This film's unusual subject matter doesn't entirely explain the various excruciatingly self-conscious performances and prosthetic makeup effects.
Uninspired and self-conscious performances from Jonah Hill and James Franco are part of what's wrong with this exasperating and unenlightening film: it's a dramatically unfocused, sluggishly paced real-life story, based on the curious, self-serving testimony of disgraced New York Times journalist Michael Finkel.
