Top rated movies with acerbic dialogue that have a straightforward narrative

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with acerbic dialogue and a straightforward narrative! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with acerbic dialogue and a straightforward narrative, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Shirley (2020)

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

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2020-09-11 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    intellectual directing
  2. Ranked #2 for
    literary genius
  3. Ranked #2 for
    creative directing

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2 The Man Who Sold His Skin (2021)

To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.

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2021-03-15 | Drama

Cast

Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    repackaged
  2. Ranked #1 for
    sharp-tongued dialogue
  3. Ranked #1 for
    slightly underwhelming

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3 French Exit (2021)

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

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2021-02-12 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges

Rating

rating icon 5.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sarcastic dialogue
  2. Ranked #1 for
    harmless enough
  3. Ranked #1 for
    caustic dialogue

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4 The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (2021)

Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face, but talk on the phone every day. When Jaakko hears news about Sirpa's declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city. It's not the easiest decision, because he's blind and paralyzed from the chest down - and he has to make the journey alone. To get there, Jaakko must rely on the help of five strangers. What could go wrong?

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2021-09-10 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Petri Poikolainen, Marjaana Maijala

Rating

rating icon 7.197
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    deformed
  2. Ranked #2 for
    kudo to director
  3. Ranked #3 for
    most intense

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5 Argentina, 1985 (2022)

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

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2022-09-29 | Drama / History

Cast

Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani

Rating

rating icon 7.903
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    nearly perfect
  2. Ranked #1 for
    for historical research
  3. Ranked #1 for
    practically flawless

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6 Baby Assassins (2021)

Chisato and Mahiro are two high school girls who are about to graduate. They also happen to both be highly skilled assassins. When the organization they work for orders them to share a room, the relationship between the pair quickly turns sour. However, when they find themselves targeted by the yakuza, the girls quickly realise that they will have to find a way to work together.

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2021-07-30 | Action / Drama

Cast

Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa

Rating

rating icon 6.371
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    most entertaining
  2. Ranked #1 for
    extrovert
  3. Ranked #2 for
    anti-social

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7 Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

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2019-02-01 | Thriller / Mystery

Cast

Rene Russo, Jake Gyllenhaal

Rating

rating icon 5.36
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    prissy
  2. Ranked #2 for
    high art
  3. Ranked #2 for
    hammy performance

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8 Mank (2020)

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

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2020-11-13 | Drama / History

Cast

Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried

Rating

rating icon 6.71
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    for cinemagoers
  2. Ranked #2 for
    versed
  3. Ranked #2 for
    talented writer

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9 Triangle of Sadness (2022)

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island in a struggle of hierarchy.

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2022-09-18 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    hot potato
  2. Ranked #2 for
    scathing
  3. Ranked #2 for
    trenchant dialogue

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10 Some Kind of Heaven (2021)

Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America’s largest retirement community strive to find happiness.

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2021-02-19 | Documentary

Cast

Dennis Dean, Lynn Henry

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rosy
  2. Ranked #2 for
    humane
  3. Ranked #2 for
    forlorn

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