Sentences with phrase «brilliant sleight»
It's a brilliant sleight of hand: Nothing important seems to be happening, and yet stuff keeps happening, and the movie is always pushing forward.
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The Apartment is a writer's movie's full of brilliant sleights, such as Bud's unconscious habit of reiterating what others say, not just expression-wise but opinion-wise (that wonderfully irritating suffix learned from David Lewis's Mr Kirkeby, smoothest of the ageing roués).
Audiences are confronted with clichés, distortions, and brilliant sleights of hand that force us to go beyond the lampoon and shift the lens through which we perceive race in order to confront our own bias.
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Paul Newman and Robert Redford shine together in this brilliant and hugely amusing caper film that offers us, among many notable qualities, a marvelous production design and an ingenious (and unpredictable) plot that plays like a refined sleight - of - hand trick.
When he gets into trouble with his supplier, his sister is kidnapped and he is forced to rely on both his sleight of hand and brilliant mind to save her.