1.   Among the home-movie-style comic performances, Ms. Finley nearly walks away with the film.

2.   And does he resent the prejudice Oscar voters historically display against comic performances?

3.   Cage excels as a nerd-with-a-gun, delivering a richly comic performance that nevertheless rings true emotionally.

4.   Childress is a believable Matilda, and Ray McKinnon gives a comic performance as Long Bill Coleman.

5.   David Bamber turns in a delightful comic performance gem as Collins.

6.   Gallagher recovers in time to contribute a brightly turned comic performance, but the one who makes the most serious bid to steal the movie is Michael Rispoli.

7.   From then on, Lemmon punctuated his mostly comic performances with tough dramatic work.

8.   Grant is surrounded by terrific comic performances from Robin Williams, Tom Arnold and Jeff Goldblum.

9.   He also gets some fine comic performances out of these veteran actors.

10.   His clever and multi-leveled comic performance here makes this self-obsessed, rather insufferable surogate-Orwell amazingly sympathetic, and worthy of our attention.