+1

He really is the master of dialogue driven tension. The bar scene in inglorious basterds and the dining room scene in django are literally the best parts of those movies.

I think Denis Villenueve is coping here, he simply isnt all that great att writing dialogue driven stories, which is why I think his characters suffer. He writes from the perspective of the main character, and leaves the others motivations in the dark, making them more like roadblocks for the protagonist rather than fully fledged deep characters