Sentences with phrase «handling dramatic material»

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Notably, this time the bounty of material is handled with lightness and confidence, minimizing the sense of overload and hectoring that has hampered his other densely populated features — epitomized by the rhetorical uses of an American flag toward the end of Nashville, the pretentious or mock - pretentious uses of music in A Wedding, and an overreliance on 11th - hour violence to goose the dramatic effects of these and many other films, including The Long Goodbye and Short Cuts.

When it debuted at various festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, «Skeleton» received mostly positive reviews, with Variety critic Geoff Berkshire writing that «the biggest surprise for audiences expecting plenty of laughs will be just how effectively both thesps handle the weightier dramatic material in the screenplay... «The Skeleton Twins» captures the way siblings develop their own unique comedic shorthands in a way few films ever have.»

While Melfi takes a few liberties with the source material, mainly for dramatic effect, it's handled so gracefully that you don't really notice.