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The following context is from a youtube video called Eyes Wide Shut - Red cloak unmasked !!! (film analysis)

"As it often is with Kubrick, clues are given mostly visually rather than in straight dialogue"

straight definitions 1. Direct and candid: a straight answer.(source thefreedictionary) 2. not deviating from an indicated pattern writes straight humor a straight-A student(source Merriam Webster)

Are any of these applicable here?

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    Yes, the second applies. straight dialogue, outright dialogue
    – Lambie
    Commented Jun 11, 2022 at 15:58

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I would argue that the most relevant sense is Merrian-Websters 3.c:

straight: 3.c. free from extraneous matter: unmixed

I would also add pure and undiluted to that definition. In this case, Kubrick chooses to use visual clues instead of just dialogue alone. Straight dialogue here stands for pure or unmixed dialogue; in this case, dialogue alone, to the exclusion of other ways of communicating information like music, visual communication, facial expression etc. We might reword the sentence:

As it often is with Kubrick, clues are given mostly visually rather in pure dologue (i.e. without other the support of other methods of communication in film).

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