Sentences with phrase «crackling slyness»

What vibrancy there is comes not from the script but from Posey's crackling slyness, Phoenix's lunkish solemnity as Abe (he puts a muscular spin on that perennial Allen figure, the clueless intellectual), the tender glow of Darius Khondji's photography, and the Ramsey Trio Lewis instrumental of «The In Crowd,» which runs throughout, pepping things up nicely.