The phrase "brilliant satire" refers to a clever and funny way of criticizing a person, group, or situation through humor and exaggeration. It involves using humor to make a point or expose flaws in a clever and smart manner. Full definition
• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends. (firstthings.com)
I don't know what to say that hasn't already been said by many people way smarter than me, but it set a very high bar for brilliant satire, acting, cinematography, production design, everything. (criterion.com)