Sentences with phrase «full of red herrings»

The story is full of red herrings, and while the motivations of the killer become clear (well, to some) by the middle of the film, the identity is still not clear.

But Michael Tolkin's screenplay — and presumably his own novel, which he adapted — is also tricked out with a bogus noir thriller plot full of red herrings and a boringly conventional love story that includes the least interesting character I've ever seen Greta Scacchi play.

Ever since The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in 1970, Dario Argento's thrillers have been moving away from conventional narrative into plots of increasing absurdity, often full of red herrings, that gratify the director's delight in stylistic excess.

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However, there may be a red herring going on, with wenger knowing full well he might not get the permit and throwing people off the scent of another player.

«A proposal to close the LLC loophole is a red herring that fails to fundamentally address the root cause of the problems that exist within our campaign finance system, most notably a lack of enforcement, a lack of transparency, and a lack of full and honest disclosure,» Flanagan said.

Her sarcastic, chain - smoking resentment (though she doesn't inhale), like her folks» guilt and despair over what a screw - up their darling daughter turned out to be, amounts to a protracted red herring, as the family heads up to Gatlin Lake, a trailer park full of rolling hills and orangey street lamps.

The story is full of double crosses, and red herrings, both in the present and in the past.

Even though David Archer has written a book full of mysteries, there is, alas, no final scene where a Miss Marple figure assembles all the suspects in the drawing room, dispatches all the red herrings and finally unmasks the perpetrator: It was you, Professor Milankovitch, on the Continental Slope, with the Clathrate Gun!