brooding

"You miss Russell Crowe, but Mescal is always watchable, with a stocky, swarthy, brooding presence," he added in the four-star review.

David Rooney was less favourable about Mescal's performance and called it "a tad flat at times" with his emotional range "sticking mostly to the same notes of brooding intensity and simmering rage".

Granted, “Out of Time’s” earworm “Shiny Happy People” is gratingly banal, but the album also features spoken-word passages, brooding bass lines and ghostly steel-guitar drone.

But the director of “Longlegs,” a brooding serial killer film, has a sensibility that’s all his own.

Since his breakout role as Ben Covington, the brooding heartthrob of late-’90s coming-of-age drama “Felicity” who could make “hey” sound like a 10-page love letter, Speedman has distanced himself from the character.