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...Reviewing Barry Levinson's 1982 buddy comedy Diner for TIME, I wrote that "the prize in this gallery is Mickey Rourke, who made a strong impression in Body Heat and assumes command of Diner whenever he is onscreen. With a face as handsome as it is streetwise, and a smile that manages to be both shy and cunning, Rourke has the potential of a young Jack Nicholson...
...real cause for celebration is that he alchemizes the dross of the script into a character with a palpable physicality and inner life. Behind the bulk of his hulk, a man's dogged decency is on display, and so, briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long close-up as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor - who says he reworked it to reflect his own life - elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn...
...audience. The greatest drama of all can take place on the stage of the human face.As Nixon’s antagonist, Frost, Sheen does an admirable, if overshadowed, job. At the film’s start, he plays the television personality to perfection, sporting an ever-present million-dollar smile. By its end, Sheen reveals a Frost transformed from entertainer to thinker, a man who has come to take himself seriously after confronting serious issues.Sheen and Langella are supported in the film by Matthew Macfadyen as Frost’s straight-man producer John Birt, and by the comedic...
...Don’t worry, darling,” Felicity said with a lazy smile. “We’ll make room...
...expressed mute astonishment. The Stable Boy stepped down from the chair into the center of the room. He stood against the sunbeam from the window, the light so bright that his form was almost silhouetted against it. With his arms crossed across his chest and a malevolent smile setting his face gloriously ablaze, he seemed to hover just an inch above the carpet...