Still, to hear about him was to hate him, given Ms. Heckart's heartbreaking performance.

Brendan Gill of The New Yorker wrote that Tracy gave "a faultless and, under the circumstances, heartbreaking performance."

According to author and executive producer George R. R. Martin, Bradley delivered "a heartbreaking performance."

Also, James Berardinelli praised the actress, by saying that she "overmatches her more experienced co-star with a luminous and heartbreaking performance."

I'd never seen such a heartbreaking performance.

In a prize-winning and heartbreaking performance, the star plays a scrappy Roman streetwalker who drifts almost magically among the film's astonishingly varied realms.

Armin Mueller-Stahl gives a heartbreaking performance as a man who can't stop destroying the child he loves.

Mr. Mastroianni gives a "remarkable performance, both heartbreaking and farcical."

The Spanish television actress Belén Rueda gives a precise, heartbreaking performance as a terminally ill lawyer in "The Sea Inside."

Scott Matthewman of The Stage said that Donna's insistence to change the past "formed the emotional backbone of this episode, producing some truly heartbreaking performances".