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The fights and chases are semi-effective, but there’s such a startling lack of cleverness that it’s as if the filmmakers took “Idiocracy” as a guide rather than a warning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

The cleverness of the execution is as or more important than how seamless it is.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2025

While he is nowhere near the dribbler Jeremy Doku or Savinho is, he brings a certain degree of cleverness to the wing.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

A familiar resolution deflates the status the movie had earned up until that point as a wildly unpredictable work of trashy cleverness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024

S. shook his head, beaming away at me, and said cleverness was my permanent affliction, my wooden leg, and that it was in the worst possible taste to draw the group’s attention to it.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger