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There's a thin line between period acting and overacting, and more than once McElhone drifts over it.
I first saw Hawera last spring in a garden outside Chicago, where it had been planted along the foundation of a stone house in long drifts interspersed with sweeps of fern.
Even as a great deal of the "top God" discussion drifts into remote realms of cosmology, much of the "my God" discussion becomes ever more individualized.
There is a long amiable letter to the young Lafayette in 1779, in which Washington, in a giddy mood, drifts into a reverie about competing for Lafayette's young wife with Lafayette himself--a funny bit of teasing, followed abruptly by a rueful reassurance, worthy of Stendhal himself, that "amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a Woman from real inclination has preferred an old man."
… [It] offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The wild measures Ripley takes to maintain the charade cause some critics to lose interest in the second half of the film: "When Tom's aberrant qualities become more dangerous, the movie loses its moorings and drifts into a sort of highly polished, implausible melodrama" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)