Albert Sherman's stage direction strikes a fair balance between solo turns and tightly enmeshed ensemble acting.

The cast won a Special Golden Globe Award for their ensemble acting.

And then I began to appreciate the ensemble acting, with the five actresses creating the warmth and familiarity of a real family.

Material Girl: "You'll find yourself longing for the intricate plotting and ensemble acting skills of an Olsen twins movie."

The ensemble acting vivified and substantiated the play.

But the most seamlessly integrated feats of ensemble acting I witnessed in the past year came from troupes visiting from (or seen) abroad.

The role was then offered to Kurt Russell, whose agent replied that he was not interested in "ensemble acting at the moment".

If it suceeds, it will bring Steppenwolf's passionate style of ensemble acting to a vastly larger audience.

Jane also becomes a rueful friend to the other two, with terrific ensemble acting to make those ties very real.

The film's greatest strength is its extraordinary ensemble acting.

If the film lacks the genial effervescence and comfy ensemble acting of "Sense and Sensibility," it has an intensely focused performance by Charlotte Gainsbourg in the title role.

The ensemble acting has a relaxed confidence typical of British movies nowadays, and the literate screenplay by Mr. Sheridan and Nye Heron flows without a hitch.

The ensemble acting is sublime (Holden).

The ensemble acting is so finely tuned that the six characters seem genuinely related by blood and by marriage.

The ensemble acting is posed in a formal tableau style that evokes 19th-century genre paintings, and the costumes are witty, synthetic exaggerations of period fashions.

PLUSES: "Hurlyburly" has the most brilliant ensemble acting of any 1998 film.

The ensemble acting is at once disciplined and exuberant.

The ensemble acting is uniformly entertaining (Ian Bannen, as Bill's foxy Grandpa, is especially so), and the pacing almost dreamlike, as befits a reverie.

But the ensemble acting has a crackling spontaneity that makes its grim vision of the state of black America look all too real.

And it is ensemble acting of the highest level.