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“Never one to overemote, my mom just gave him a sideways look and shrugged, causing them both to smile,” Michelle Obama wrote in her memoir, “Becoming.”

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024

Too often moviegoers equate good directing with a dynamic visual style, but it’s also about shaping performances; and here, Avnet proves too willing to let Dinklage, Goggins and Whitford overemote.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2020

Though a few of his actors overemote, that’s not exactly a sin with this type of script, which preferred to holler its message rather than hint at it, to large audiences who expected nothing less.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2017

He plays forthrightly with a clean tone and minimal reverb, and won’t overemote on his instrument.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2015

Easton crams in the lyrical double entendres just in case we forget we're at the peak of the Roger Moore era and never misses an opportunity to overemote.

From Time Magazine Archive