expressive

A problem of “West Side Story,” from day one, was the need for singers who could manage the expressive complexities of Bernstein’s songs and the physical complexities of Robbins’ choreography.

The movie has spawned a number of memes, including close-ups of the characters’ expressive faces.

Deceptively sophisticated and wonderfully expressive, it is full of lifelike details, without being made to resemble life.

It’s an exaggerated world — appropriately to the heavy-breathing material — but emotionally expressive, even moving, and lots of fun.

Olyphant, who has dyed his hair and eyebrows white for the part, manages to be expressive while hardly changing his expression and funny without saying anything funny at all.