He's allowing his characters to develop more fully and the pacing of the story provides steadily growing suspense punctuated with moments of deadly peril or humour.
Amid the growing suspense, the movie, which seems ready-made for a Hollywood adaptation, gives you the uneasy thrill of rooting for this subversive pair to succeed.
It was really about making sure that no one saw it coming and that there was a growing suspense with the episode.
As Sunday's date for this year's Academy Awards approaches, and with it the growing suspense over who will win what, Nick Clooney follows from his Augusta, Ky., home (near Cincinnati) with special interest.
He said he had been "surprised" by the number of people who turned out in St Peter's Square to watch the first smoke on Tuesday night, and said the crowds would surely grow as suspense mounted.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle completed the clean sweep for masters of home-grown suspense for his creation of super sleuth Sherlock Holmes, whose exploits appeared in four full-length novels and 56 short stories between 1887 and 1927 and have been continually updated ever since.
The suspense has grown more and more as Rodriguez's streak has dragged on, first through the end of the Yankees' home series against Kansas City, then through a seven-game road trip to Cleveland and Tampa Bay, and finally in front of the 47,034 camera-wielding fans on Monday.
In "Business," the suspense grew from the protagonist's fear that his parents would bust him.
The pace is perfect, the suspense grew with every chapter, and I literally sped through the book at break-neck speed.
The suspense grew little by little, and Vettel said afterward that he felt within the first two laps that his tires were wearing out too quickly to maintain his lead.
The suspense grew more agonizing in its final hours, when the family received a call on Sunday night from an Associated Press reporter who told her a body had washed up near Greenpoint in Brooklyn wearing black corduroy pants.
