His psychologically acute character studies are as close as fictional films have come to showing real life in all its complexity and ordinariness.

At the same time, he uses a novelistic approach to give the reader a vivid, psychologically acute portrait of Winchell himself.

The first is Homer's action-packed and psychologically acute paean to a single man's rage.

When it does, the story, although still fantastic, seems less supernatural than psychologically acute.

A posthumous collection of psychologically acute stories.

Folk-rock lives on in the finely observed, psychologically acute songs of Cliff Eberhardt.

"I find her one of the most musical and psychologically acute playwrights today," he wrote.

The result overall remains satisfyingly unsettling, however, thanks also to Petherbridge's restrained, psychologically acute performance.

They were gritty, psychologically acute and unflinchingly violent.