Sentences with phrase «at crackling dialogue»

Best known for his plays, including Beauty Queen of Leenane, McDonagh is a master at crackling dialogue, a talent he also displayed in his previous two crime movies, In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths which both starred Colin Farrell.

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With Ocean's Eleven, director Steven Soderbergh has broken into mainstream Hollywood, and it's about time Hollywood can claim a director who actually takes time with his films — lets the characters grow on us, lets the dialogue crackle at the right pacing, and lets the content dictate the style (not vice versa).

The dialogue, by Jacob Brackman, crackles with wit, and at the same time, structurally speaking, there is a sort of openness about the way the story unfolds that is altogether rare in the American mainstream.

But the film has aged remarkably well over twenty years, perhaps because it was even something of a throwback at the time: the imprint of conversation - driven French auteurs like Eric Rohmer is borne proudly by this sharp, sexy and nastily funny comedy of manners, whose dialogue crackles with such cutting truth and wit one wonders why Soderbergh doesn't write more these days.