Sentences with phrase «crackles with the wit»

This bittersweet comedy - drama positively crackles with wit, intelligence, and flair, and Giamatti cements his status as the smartest, savviest actor of his generation.

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.

The relationship between each family pair crackles with wit, humor, and enormous love, revealing the vulnerabilities of all four teens with heartrending honesty.

Ferociously plotted and crackling with wit, The Chicago Way is first - rate suspense steeped in the glorious, gritty atmosphere of a great city: a marvelous debut.

Not exact matches

Though it has all the crackling energy and wit of many a»70s political thriller (with an unusually mobile, roving camera for a Spielberg drama), the movie boils down to a single stately moment, one in which a woman asserts her authority in a way that even her male subordinates, who technically report to her, are unprepared for.

When «Solo» manages to come to crackling life, it's thanks to a droid called L3 - 37, voiced with irrepressible wit and gusto by the brilliant British screenwriter Phoebe Waller - Bridge.

«At its best, War Machine crackles with irreverent wit, even if American political craziness circa 2009 looks tame compared with the 2017 version,» writes A.O. Scott for The New York Times.

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.

With a clever script that successfully updates many Christmas myths and dialogue that crackles with sophisticated wit, this movie offers the kind of pre-holiday experience that parents and children alike will appreciate.&raWith a clever script that successfully updates many Christmas myths and dialogue that crackles with sophisticated wit, this movie offers the kind of pre-holiday experience that parents and children alike will appreciate.&rawith sophisticated wit, this movie offers the kind of pre-holiday experience that parents and children alike will appreciate.»

An elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre - bending daredevil, and master prose stylist, David Mitchell's new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit.

Their new tales, set more than a century apart, sparkle with wit, crackling dialogue, and heroines who discover the courage to reach out for life's adventures.