We learned, for instance, in a bit of badinage with the locals reeling in their nets that real fishermen never sit down in their boats — that's for old men or wimps. (thetravelmagazine.net)
The pratfalls, the double takes, the slow burns, the fast burns, the inspired magpie badinage between Gus and his dim - bulb accomplice Murray — Leary hits one after another dead on. (chicagoreader.com)
But it's also a film of often sensuous beauty, and in stretches, a surprisingly funny one too, as when the Dickinson sisters exchange brittle badinage with their witty friend Miss Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey)-- sequences in which the Dickinson residence in Amherst really does become a House of Mirth. (filmcomment.com)