That may explain why the central performances are not very gripping.

As for the central performances, there isn't space here to describe them in the detail they warrant.

The mystery is deepened by the film's extraordinary central performances.

It's no pleasure, however, to report that her performance, so central to the musical's success, lacks sparkle.

Foremost among the missing ingredients is a commanding central performance.

The writing in both plays is secure and the central performances are true, but the program otherwise appears to have been scarcely directed at all.

An Education was well made with a great central performance but i just found it all a little dull.

I really enjoyed it and thought all the central performances were perfectly nuanced.

All three central performances are, on their own terms, consistent and polished, but they rarely connect.

You could not fault the central performances, though.