It is a brilliant capture of a special moment.
Journalism is brilliant at capturing momentum, or changes, or things that are unusual.
Bestwick is brilliant at capturing an ordinary Britain made up of cheap cafes, Bacardi Breezers and over-applied eyeliner.
While the question of veracity is intriguing, what is more important is that Galloway remains a brilliant writer, capturing mood and character, time and place, with seeming effortlessness.
"Shepard is at his most brilliant in capturing the demented essence of junior high" and "masterly at setting up our heartbreak," Stephen Metcalf wrote in the Book Review.
"Your shoulders immediately drop, and you can just feel that air," she said, adding that the director was brilliant at capturing "atmosphere and mood and how important that is to a space".
It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows his journalism, for example, that Mr. Wolfe proves brilliant at capturing shades of style - style in dress, in food, in furniture, in conversation, in just about everything.
The strain could be detected in both "Whale Rider," in which a Maori girl is abandoned by her father and shunned by her grandfather, and in the brilliant documentary "Capturing the Friedmans," in which shame and abuse are passed from one generation to the next.
For those who still think of Stubbs as first and foremost a painter of horses, the prominent placement of the monkey painting is meant to signal that the artist was equally brilliant at capturing other mammals, including humans, as is soon made clear in the rest of this 17-painting exhibition.
Sullivan possesses enough self-awareness to make fun of himself when, for instance, he asks, "Hey, who wants to read from the Lewis and Clark journals this time?" And he's brilliant at capturing the moments and moods of an American family road trip.
