Word: devious
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Bryan Singer, whose last film was the crisply devious crime thriller The Usual Suspects, has narrowed his focus from that film's gang of five to a two-hander in Apt Pupil, from a Stephen King story. The other three directors have bought a big canvas (at a cut rate) and splashed strange people on it till it's as busy as a Bruegel. Solondz has a dozen major characters trudging through Happiness. Stanley Tucci, the co-writer, co-director and star of everyone's favorite Italian-food film, Big Night, has created a shipful of fools in his farce...
...criminal chicanery, is as modern as Rush Hour or The X Files. In Waterbearer Films' ravishing 6-hr. 40-min. video edition, restored by David Shepard with its color tinting and long-lost intertitles, Les Vampires is revealed as the prototype and apotheosis of every hurtling action film and devious crime thriller to follow...
...honest person deny saving (perhaps as a teenager) some rather odd items as souvenirs? Like something tossed to the audience at a rock concert, or a lock of hair? I believe Monica in her youthful innocence saved the dress for the very same reasons, not because she had some devious plans for the future. TERESA GERMANO Pine Plains...
...question of cheating. The drugs can kill athletes--or make them very sick and shorten their career. Yet they keep taking the stuff, relying on so-called drug gurus to dose them in undetectable ways, and on ever more elaborate strategies to beat drug tests. One of the most devious: using a catheter to pump someone else's urine into their urethra just before a test...
...devious Triad crime that challenges Murtaugh and Riggs so is, happily, exceptionally amenable to pyrotechnical screen displays. The film delivers all the broken glass and gas explosions your heart could desire. Action sequences max out on adrenaline, like one on the freeway where Riggs fights a thug in a moving prefab home, gets dragged behind an oblivious truck and then manages to jump back into the waiting car of Murtaugh, who promptly drives through a glass-walled building. Orange fireballs are more common than not on these streets of LA, and there is no fun in arresting someone...