Unlike the itchy-fingered automatons in most Hollywood gangster films, the movie's bad guys have a depth and complexity that goes beyond their macho shoot-' em-up attitudinizing.
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Along the way, there is a side romance for a street dancer, danced perhaps too elegantly by Christine Dunham, and Espada, a bullfighter whose attitudinizing and taut dancing were brilliantly executed by Vadim Belotserkovsky.
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The runaway winner of the acting diva derby in terms of attention-getting lines and haughty attitudinizing is Ms . Smith, as Lady Hester Random, widow of the British ambassador to Italy and quintessential British snob.
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PLUSES : Greg Kinnear, as a gay painter recuperating from a vicious beating, emerges as a credible movie star and bonafide nice guy, finally erasing the bad taste of his smug yuppie attitudinizing on " Talk Soup ."
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"Queen of the Damned " degenerates into a lot of dull declaiming and attitudinizing, despite a sly tongue-in-cheek quality brought by a preening Stuart Townsend to the Lestat role he inherited from the utterly humorless Tom Cruise.
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De Lempicka was a striking portraitist of various grand dukes and the occasional celebrity, such as Andre Gide, with many of her subjects caught in the dramatic attitudinizing of Greta Garbo and Pola Negri _ the poses are stylized, as are de Lempicka's modeling and color.
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But no; the same malignant attitudinizing that might have been applied decades ago is still at work . . . [ the film's ] arch tableaux, its unstable amalgam of life and art, make it a director's picture . . . attempting to reveal psychology through music, Russell makes every character grotesque, every bar of music programmatic ."
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In 1930, the critic for " Dance Magazine " described the work as " a statuesque composition, which relied for much of its eloquence upon an ingenious and simple costume arrangement . " After seeing a later performance, the Philadelphia " Record "'s critic wrote, " When Miss Graham in her " Lamentation " depicts the dumb agony of grief she does not droop like a flower or attitudinize like Patience on a monument, she is grief from the first stricken bewildered gropings of her head and torso to the last moment when she averts her covered head with a finality that is pitiful and terrible ."
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Gene Siskel of the " Chicago Tribune ", awarding " American History X " four stars out of four, described it as " a shockingly powerful screed against racism that also manages to be so well performed and directed that it is entertaining as well " and stated that it was " also effective at demonstrating how hate is taught from one generation to another . " Siskel singled out Norton's performance and called him " the immediate front-runner " for an Variety ", gave the film a positive review stating, " This jolting, superbly acted film will draw serious-minded upscale viewers interested in cutting-edge fare . " He gave special praise to Norton's performance, saying " His Derek mesmerizes even as he repels, and the actor fully exposes the human being behind the tough poses and attitudinizing . " " The New York Times " s Janet Maslin wrote, " Though its story elements are all too easily reduced to a simple outline, " American History X " has enough fiery acting and provocative bombast to make its impact felt.
