Great actors can take seemingly banal dialogue and make it memorable — for better or worse. We pick the best, and the most hilariously bad, line readings of …
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Performances
Explore the nitty-gritty technical descriptions that comprise an excellent performance.
Armie Hammer is more than an object of desire in Call Me by Your Name
In Call Me by Your Name, Armie Hammer’s performance as Oliver weaponizes his star persona, allowing us to misread his character in the same way that Elio does. …
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Words are futile devices: On Timothée Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name
In Call Me by Your Name, Timothée Chalamet conveys how words aren’t enough for Elio. His body reveals the feelings he leaves unspoken. This is an excerpt from …
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Bright Young Things: Introducing Jack Lowden
This is the first article of Seventh Row's series on emerging artists, Bright Young Things. We take a look at the career of Scottish actor Jack Lowden, now …
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Davies’ adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea is a memory film with an unreliable narrator
In Terence Davies' screen adaptation of Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Davies plunges us into Hester's memories, nudging us to accept her interpretation of …
‘You do not demonstrate, you reveal’: Cynthia Nixon is exquisite in A Quiet Passion
As Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, Cynthia Nixon reveals her depth of range and skill as a performer — emotionally, physically, and technically. This …