Word: sharpness
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...Wilson is up for the challenge every step of the way. He is a character actor in a leading man’s body and has a magnetism that makes it impossible to take your eyes off the screen. Slade’s direction is fast and razor-sharp, a nod to his extensive music video and commercial experience. The film is tightly packaged with close camera angles, leaving very little breathing room, and trapping the audience in Jeff’s apartment with the main characters. For such a dark plot, the colors in the film—from...
...things will happen to relatives who vacation in a motor home: they will bond in unforeseen ways, and they will constantly face complications involving fecal matter. “R.V.” depends largely on potty humor to elicit laughs, which is disappointing in light of its sharp comic cast featuring Robin Williams and Cheryl Hine (of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” fame). But the film is saved by a string of quips that reference the current state of American society and pop culture. These jokes, which seem to target a post-pubescent audience, make...
...chaos as the realization of the tragedy builds. However, for me one of the most striking aspects of Sept. 11 was how bright the day was, how saturated the colors were, and how crystal clear the sky—appropriately, since the emotional impact of the event remains as sharp and clear as it was four and a half years ago. Fittingly, “United 93” opened this week in New York at the Tribeca Film Festival, which was founded in response to the aftermath of Sept. 11 Bottom Line: Greengrass has crafted a superb and stunningly...
...it’s hard to deny the verbal dexterity that he brings to his major label releases—and his new release, “The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living,” is certainly no exception. Characterized, as ever, by moments of razor-sharp wit amidst a sea of mock-cockney diatribes and a blend of beats and influences that is sometimes too much to take, the new album does find Skinner in a new place, lyrically-speaking: the establishment. Having reached a new level of success after the release of his second album...
...didn’t have to be that way. At a few points, Wright reveals sharp humor and a delightful weirdness. The conclusion of “Od Hearing,” in which the narrator senses his estrangement from the people around him, is a striking blend of vulgarity and surrealism: “Kiss me/an easy death whispers: I want you to/come in my mouth—// Wolves/ with bright amethyst teeth smiling...