Word: sardonicism
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UBRICK zaps the audience. The music keeps you awake or makes some obvious comic point, but it is too strained to be effective counterpoint to the narrative (as in 2001), and the entire mode of storytelling--a mosaic held together by the director's editing--is so self-propelled that...
Gullible. Yet for all that, Irving seemed almost eerily unconcerned. He bounced out of the courthouse with a smile and handshakes for newsmen friends. He even left the two children with a sitter and took Edith out for a night on the town. One can only guess at the conversation...
Beatty's nervous, sardonic energy gives $ some much needed momentum and at least a modicum of charm. As the hooker, Goldie Hawn displays her familiar Laugh-In mannerisms with witless bravado. She is suffering from a terminal case of the cutes.
When the President emerged, he was accompanied by no music, and received only perfunctory applause from the delegates. Since he could not get the seat he felt the dignity of his office required, he walked directly to the podium. As the President spoke off the cuff, Meany sat glowering near...
Kristofferson, himself something of a rock star, eases through his first dramatic role in sleepy, sardonic style. Karen Black has played her part, or a slight variation on it, so many times before that even her presence is a cliche. Gene Hackman's psychopathic cop, already on view in...