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well-acted

adjective

  1. (of a play, film, dramatic part, etc) performed in a skilful manner
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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O'Hara brings weight and pathos to a role that so easily could have been a well-acted but toothless reprisal, and she does so effortlessly.

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“Crevasse,” by contrast, is extremely well-acted, directed and designed.

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the British mathematician and cryptanalyst instrumental in the development of the first computers, in this sharp and well-acted biographical drama from the director Morten Tyldum.

That Oscar-nominated film is far more gentle and sincere than “Challengers,” a trim, naughty, ferociously well-acted trifle about characters more likely to scrawl something foul on a bathroom stall than quote Heraclitus.

Though well-acted by Kingsley Ben-Adir, this retelling of reggae icon Bob Marley’s life is both too vague and slowed by dutiful stops along many a biopic’s road.

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