1.   Brilliant acting and an attractive comic style make this an ideal festival choice.

2.   A bright comic style and razor-sharp supporting cast added further sparkle to this satirical view of someone who would do anything to get ahead.

3.   A potential star is born in Vaughn, who offsets his matinee idol good looks with a truly original sense of comic style and timing.

4.   A serious, and all too familiar, psychodrama told in comic style and complete with hysteria and satisfying resolution.

5.   All of this is melded in zany comic style by Burton, who has imagination that may be too big for one planet.

6.   Clooney carries off the self-conscious comic style with such gusto that he finally makes a compelling case for himself as a movie star.

7.   Even in this stock role, he shows off a lively comic style.

8.   His comic style is to aim for, and often achieve, a state of constant uproar.

9.   John Cusack, who stars at a hitman facing his high school reunion, nails the right dryly comic style, but the material eventually strands him.

10.   Not even its screenplay, which she adapted with her sister Delia Ephron, shows much comic style.