When Bridges confronts the young drug kingpin, played by Andy Garcia, we are reminded of Ashby's gifts as a director of actors; they appear to have set aside Oliver Stone's screenplay and discovered a more palpable energy in their improvisations. (sensesofcinema.com)
It bristles with palpable energy as it dissects its targets with such focused precision and skill. (trespassmag.com)
Since then his films, including Gummo (1997), Julien Donkey - Boy (1999), Mister Lonely (2007), Trash Humpers (2009), and Spring Breakers (2013), have moved progressively towards what he calls «liquid narrative» — fragmented scenes threaded together, not according to a truth or logic, but instead a connected palpable energy. (artspace.com)