Sentences with phrase «with sharp dialogue»

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.

Hammett fused clean prose with sharp dialogue, created memorable characters and a story with plenty of twists and turns.

For fiction, he is interested in seeing inspired literary novels, voice driven comedies, smart thrillers with sharp dialogue, debuts and short story collections.

With its sharp dialogue, great soundtrack of opera and classical music and excellent cast, I look forward to the next film by Atom Egoyan as I feel he will have several tense dramas in store for us.

The amazing writing team of Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin provide a script with sharp dialogue and just enough baseball lingo so that everyone can follow.

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.»

It's based on the book The Gentleman From Montana by Lewis R. Foster and penned with sharp dialogue by Sidney Buchman.

But on the plus side, the characters and cast along with a sharp dialogue, make this worth watching.

Along with this, it's the heavy amusement shared by watching Billy Connolly barrel through this movie with sharp dialogue that can keep up with the movie's zippy editing.

It's a cleverly constructed and stylish debut with sharp dialogue and genuinely touching and hilarious moments.

It unfolds with sharp dialogue, timely on - point social commentary, and a profound interest in what it means to be an unfulfilled person of a certain age alive today.

Likewise, there are some scattered great scenes, including a couple of final - act twists that are just plain uncomfortable to watch, with the sharp dialogue of Letts shining through as the various schemes begin to unravel.

«The second episode of Showtime's Billions is even more confident than the first, with sharper dialogue and a focused structure.»

Not exact matches

A debate in which the thoughts are not expressed in the way in which they existed in the mind but in the speaking are so pointed that they may strike home in the sharpest way, and moreover without the men that are spoken to being regarded in any way present as persons; a conversation characterized by the need neither to communicate something, nor to learn something, nor to innuence someone, nor to come into connexion with someone, but solely by the desire to have one's own self - reliance confirmed by making the impression that is made, or if it has become unsteady to have it strengthened; a friendly chat in which each regards himself as absolute and legitimate and the other as relativized and questionable; a lovers» talk in which both partners alike enjoy their own glorious soul and their precious experience — what an underworld of faceless spectres of dialogue!

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.

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.

Anyone familiar with Leonard's novels will be fully aware of his colourful characters and sharp, snappy dialogue.

An appealing comedy with an unabashed streak of melodrama, sharp dialogue, and a superb ensemble cast, anchored by a lead performance by Al Pacino in lovable scamp mode.

Featuring a well - known cast that doesn't disappoint, buckets of blood with razor sharp dialogue — a final product that is just brillant from beginning to the very end,

The pace never lets up, and every time there's the slight chance of things getting a bit (ahem) po - faced (sorry), any hint of pomposity is deflated with a sight gag or some sharp dialogue.

Mr. Black's screenplay is mean - spirited, but it earns its keep with sharp, sarcastic dialogue and ingenious ways of setting up this story.

It is a sparkling film, an American Borsalino, with sharp, clever dialogue, directed at a fine pace and with a good eye for period detail by George Roy Hill.

An impressive and unexpected delight from all involved, with good chemistry from the actors and darkly comic, razor sharp dialogue.

Credit the tautpacing in conjunction with a compelling storyline, plenty of action, nuancedcharacters, resonant iconography, sharp dialogue delivered by a strong ensemblecast, and, most of all, sensational production values.

Raising Arizona has all the Coen essentials: a dark storyline about desperation for status; zany characters with sharp wit and idiosyncratic dialogue; and super stylized sets that magnify the absurdity of the world they've created.

A defining voice in American independent cinema ever since his 1995 debut with Kicking and Screaming, Noah Baumbach has a natural knack for human observation and crafting sharp dialogue that feels entirely true.

This is a classic screwball comedy made brand new, exactly the kind of movie Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges and Grant and Gable and Hepburn would be making today, with hysterical gags, slapstick moments, perfect timing, and dialogue so sharp it leaves teeth marks.

It's meticulously directed, the foley is as sharp and crowd pleasing as the finest Mamet dialogue, and Krasinski doesn't neglect the emotional core of the film — the family vying to survive, whose tensions, divisions and turmoil we experience in near silence, but with great expressivity and economy.

Guardians is laden with visual effects, but it's the relationships and the sharp dialogue inspired by them that makes the movie enjoyable.

The episodes were mostly taped with a studio audience and the laughing is balanced well with the snappy jokes and sharp dialogue.

The visuals are stunning and unnerving in equal measure, the dialogue balances sharp wit with surreally detached reflection; it is overwhelming, tender, funny and, at times, horribly sad.

, 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.

From the tightly scripted dialogue — by turn sharp, harrowing & funny and without an ounce excess on its bones — to the beautifully melancholic score by Carter Burwell and the powerhouse performances from a cast who've never been better, I fell in love with the entire movie, with every single breath - taking, nauseating, alarming, disturbing, uplifting scene, a fact made slightly more unusual given that I've tried — and failed on repeated occasions — to watch and enjoy Martin McDonagh's back catalogue.

They're so good at blending sharp dialogue with shocking bursts of violence, and making it all look seamless.

Very violent yet hilariously funny, superb acting from all corners - Waltz and Jackson steal the show while Leo shows up in an awesome turn as a plantation owner and superb visuals... and then there are the Tarantino trademarks - sharp dialogue, humor mixed easily with fear and so much more...

While the older movie was grittier, with arguably smarter dialogue and sharper performances, Spielberg's creation is just what you would expect: brilliantly shot, tightly edited, entertaining and insightful, but perhaps a bit too slick.

And here, in a fine story arc realized with wry dialogue and sharp insights, is a précis on the struggle between government for control of a culture that is changing.

Taylor - Joy and Cooke are both marvelous in entirely different registers, and Finley distinguishes his auspicious debut with craftsmanship as razor - sharp as the dialogue.

With In Bruges and his last feature, 2012's Seven Psychopaths, McDonagh built a reputation as one of the sharpest writers of dialogue around.

Baumbach is one of cinema's sharpest writers of naturalistic dialogue, capable of ringing out layers of meaning from casual exchanges, and here he's at his pithy best: Bernard's offhand categorization of his student's short story to his teenage son as «very feminist but very interesting» belies depths of misogyny and elitism, while his graceless romantic counsel to Walt leads the teen to ditch his perfectly reasonable girlfriend, Sophie (Halley Feiffer), with the same projectiles of secondhand rhetoric that he unveiled to initially charm her.

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Chandor's previous film, Margin Call, about the financial crisis of 2008, was all talk (in a good way), filled with sharp and witty dialogue and a cast of vivid characters.

Discrete placement of razor - sharp effects in the soundfield play nicely with the dialogue, which miraculously stays (centrally) above the fray, while music gets a full - bodied treatment.

But by far the best aspect of the film is the feel; Branagh seems devoted to recreating those films of yore, dripping with great acting talent and sharp dialogue, and not distracting with explosions every few minutes.

As he showed in his first film, LaBute has penchant for sharp dialogue and deft characterization but is less concerned with plot mechanics and visual mise - en - scene.

Fan of gritty dramas with razor sharp dialogue?

The characters are introduced with care and specificity, and the dialogue is sharp.

Bay Area director Michael Lehmann and writer Daniel Waters keep things dark and tasty, and the dialogue and high school politics still resonate with a sharp sting.

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.