Sentences with phrase «crackerjack story»
Screenwriters Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg whittle the Holmes character down to the basics, reasonably expand him using some of Doyle's background information to give him a slight action hero edge, develop a pretty crackerjack story involving the occult and a plan to recreate the Gunpowder Plot using a Victorian - style chemical weapon, and read between the lines of the Holmes / Watson dynamic enough to make us read further between the lines.
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But «The Big Stick» is not one of those semi-awful, schematically spelled out conflicts such as the unfunny «My Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced with a marvelous ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one of the most beautiful stories of love and its conflicts you may run across in the theaters this year.
Inspired by a true story, the crackerjack crowd - pleaser «Made in Dagenham» dramatizes the factory walkout she led, turning this forgotten page in feminist history into an inspirational joy.
It's also a crackerjack mystery story, played out against the backdrop of New York City and its polyglot denizens.