However, he praised Hill's "scene-stealing" performance.

In a joyously scene-stealing performance, Ving Rhames turns one of Frank's partners into comic relief, while Tom Sizemore plays another as a violent crime waiting to happen.

With scene-stealing performances from Bruce Willis, Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale and many, many cow carcasses, it may indeed spoil your appetite.

She was also appreciated for her scene-stealing performance as a spoiled Indian-American socialite in Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999).

Much has been made of the film's considerable "ethnic" flavor and the scene-stealing performance of Reizl Bozyk, a Yiddish theater old-timer, as "Bubbie," Izzy's grandmother.

None of this would matter, all agree, were it not for Mr. Schlesinger's scene-stealing performances in recent television debates against Mr. Lamont and Mr. Lieberman.

The actor playing Gregory Solomon is expected to give the play's standout, scene-stealing performance, and so why should it be different in the Rainbow production?

Ms. Paltrow's name has been on the list of rising young movie stars since her small but scene-stealing performance last year as Ginnie, a grifter, in "Flesh and Bone."

Then again, Ms. Clarkson, who has built a reputation for giving rich, dense, scene-stealing performances in small parts, is not a complete stranger to attention.

Jackpot, a film which follows a karaoke singer hoping to get his big break, features an androgynous man giving a scene-stealing performance of "Candy".