Sentences with phrase «razor sharp script»

The Lobster is so effective thanks to a lean, razor sharp script.

Mix this with Aaron Sorkin's razor sharp script, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's hypnotic score and a cast full of talented, young actors and you have the best movie of 2010.

Sure this was a movie with dynamic characters based on a razor sharp script, but Levinson's film also created such a perfect atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Julian Mitchell's script tends to drag its feet, if not cut short a lot of expository depth, but it keeps consistent on razor - sharp dialogue, occasionally broken up by witty humor that puts a bit of kick in the slower spots, about as much as highlights in Brian Gilbert's direction which break up slow spells and sentimentality with occasions of color and effective thoughtfulness.

The razor - sharp script contains countless knowing digs at the TV industry, and the mock shows created for MBC (H.O.T. B.O.D.S. and Levar, the pimp series Nunzio's Girls, etc.) are inspired.

Featuring a career - making performance by Lily Collins, and pitch - perfect supporting roles by Keanu Reeves, Carrie Preston, and Lili Taylor, To the Bone subverts expectations at every turn with its razor - sharp script, and its undiluted look at what young women face in living up to both society's expectations of beauty, and their own.

What makes «Roger Dodger» hold its own is the razor - sharp script by Dylan Kidd (who also directs for the first time), and the decision to focus more on the fall of the rakish teacher than the rise of his student — even if in the end it turns back to Nick and the question of whether he is an alternative model of man, or just another Roger - in - waiting.

Narratively speaking, there's nothing Earth - shattering here, but Gerwig's script has a razor - sharp sense of time, place and the roiling emotional turmoil of its protagonist, whose attempts to carve out a mature identity are authentically messy.

This is the kind of American independent comedy - drama that restores our faith in the cinema, combining a talented cast, witty direction and a razor - sharp script to reboot the coming - of - age genre.

As mentioned before, the script is razor sharp.

The film boasts an incredible script (by Clouzot and Jerome Geronimi, from Georges Arnaud's novel), amazing camerawork and razor - sharp editing.

The script — written by approximately 300 people, as far as I can tell from the IMDb entry — is razor - sharp, and its ability to impart a heap of information about a lot of people in record time is impressive.

With razor - sharp performances, a brutally witty script by Bruce Wagner and snaky direction from David Cronenberg, the film is perhaps too knowing as it explores a group of fiercely ambitious people who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

The performances are flawless, the script is razor - sharp and insightful.

for the digital age with a razor sharp crackerjack script, the film only really slips up in the way it ends, but it is a minor complaint at best.

The script's not razor sharp in Dead Rising 4 but it's good enough to make him, and many of his co-stars, feel like they've got actual personalities.

O'Connell delivers another «intense and committed performance,» but it's just as impressive a showcase for Demange, who combines gritty docudrama camerawork, razor - sharp editing and a curious kind of impressionism, brilliantly executing a very strong script from Gregory Burke that doesn't «skirt its issues... instead it explodes them to reveal a deeper, wider truth.»

«Hartley's direction is razor sharp, the performances are classically dry, and the script is a master class in precise dialogue.»

Based on a magnificently intricate script — adapted from a screenplay by Frederick Knott, who first wrote his story for the stage — it benefits immensely from Hitchcock's razor - sharp direction.

Arguably the Stanley Parable boasts the finest script of the year, razor - sharp writing in the Portal vain helping to make this one of my most enjoyed experiences of 2013.