Sentences with phrase «sharp dialogue like»

As semi-estranged adult brothers, Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller have never been better, but the real star is the script, with sharp dialogue like «You were both such middle - aged men in the making.»

Not exact matches

In stage plays like «Fan» and «The Importance of Being Earnest,» Wilde used wickedly sharp dialogue and glittering farce as scalpels, laying open the hypocrisies of an Edwardian upper - class audience that only felt the sting on the hansom - cab ride home.

It doesn't try to show some drastic change, but it does attempt to convince others that change can indeed happen, it also never puts blame on one person, because obviously with marriage it is a joint effort, there will be trials and on other occasions it simply won't work, but time and commitment can change that, rarely can a simple film like this address so much in such limited issues, but sharp, often improvisational dialogue and strong performances create a very real and insightful piece that underplays everything for maximum effect, which works.

To the credit of director Mike Newell (drawing on his Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire wrangling skills), a conclave of screenwriters who keep the dialogue on the sharp side, and the life's - a-game instincts of producer Jerry Bruckheimer, all that Arabian Nights - like stuff unfolds at a brisk, well - paced clip.

, a line of police cars, and the Batmobile that is kinetic and beautifully choreographed (less showy but just as great is an early bank heist that anybody who saw I Am Legend in IMAX is already familiar with)-- and there are exchanges of razor - sharp dialogue delivered like poison pills.

With an ensemble of comic luminaries, from Jeffrey Tambor to Michael Palin, savouring every needle - sharp line of dialogue, it's a masterclass in twisted hilarity that makes Orwell's «Animal Farm» look like a trip to a petting zoo.

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.

Like Quentin Tarantino, McDonagh excels at writing sharp, funny dialogue for people (men, usually) who are just passing the time while they wait for something violent and inevitable to happen.

ALIAS: Mitzi & Mack - Humorous crime set in South Florida -»... a fast - paced screwball comedy reminiscent of It Happened One Night, Some Like It Hot, and The Philadelphia Story, but with a racier plot line and a razor sharp assessment of love, lust, marriage, and money in the iPhone era... dialogue that crackles...»

With its sharp dialogue and philosophical digressions, Chatwin's evocative account reads almost like a novel — some people he included in the book, in fact, accused him of playing fast and loose with the facts, writing more fiction than fact.