The script feels mechanical and obvious, and, except for Gyllenhaal, the movie is disastrously miscast.

NEWYORKER: Brothers

The error led to thousands of votes being miscast during an eight-minute period after the pair performed a duet.

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Peevish and ill at ease, Zellweger is miscast as a hard-boiled "modern" woman.

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The answer is that his performance is effectively projected and entirely competent, allowing for the fact that he's miscast.

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He judged Hall as "miscast and far too inexperienced" to take the role immortalised by Anne Bancroft in the original Sixties film.

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Or it may mean the opposite: that the person whose strength lies in doing new and different things has been miscast to head a continuing, well-established and highly routinized operation.

FORBES: Connect

Karita Mattila was miscast in the title role.

NEWYORKER: Fiasco

The move would re-position Punk more like the wrestling-first hybrid of Ric Flair and Stone Cold Steve Austin that he truly is, rather than in a continued miscast of him as heir to commercial friendly icons Hulk Hogan, the Rock and Cena.

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