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Keaton gives a profoundly moving double-edged performance as a tersely melancholy has-been and, in flashbacks to the freewheeling days of slapstick silent short films, as the blank-faced, mercurially acrobatic master of uproar.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 30, 2019

As portrayed by the film’s writer and director, Noël Wells, Emily, while mercurially talented, has little idea where she’s going.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2017

The music, mercurially shifting to accommodate the diverse worlds of the stories, is by Stephen Flaherty.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2015

A born performer with a personality profile that might best be described as mercurially shy, Adams doubled as a free-associating stand-up comedian Monday.

From Washington Post

Then, mercurially, as though he’d read the letter, by God, for the last time in his life, he stuffed it like so much excelsior into its envelope.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger