Sentences with phrase «narrative slyness»

That narrative slyness is especially welcome in Friedkin, acting as a palliative to the sensory overdose in which he habitually deals; such a contrast was nowhere to be seen in «Bug» (2006), a film that sent me straight from the cinema to the pharmacy in search of anti-itch cream, but we find it in the first half of «Killer Joe,» thanks to the title character.