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Whether in a starring role as a helplessly distracted indie starlet in a shoestring production like "Living In Oblivion" (1995) or in a glorified supporting turn as a magician's assistant and the ex-wife of an escaped convict in the 1998 crime caper "Out of Sight," Ms. Keener's ability to be effortlessly hilarious is all about appearing as if she's never trying too hard.

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Even in this post-Madoff era, their caper stands out for its chutzpah.

Even at a time of mediocre remakes, this update of Arthur Hiller's 1979 wedding/espionage caper stands out for its nearly complete lack of wit or imagination.

I waited a long time, trustfully, for the roots of the caper to win out and suddenly fracture the flat calm of that wall.

Rabe's daringly stylized dramas hover in the realms between the natural and the metaphorical: angels mediate for the dead; a blinded Vietnam vet comes home to his TV-sitcom parents, Ozzie and Harriet; a gangland caper is played out in "an apartment in the underworld".

The Manchester Evening News later described the "Say Say Say" video as an "anarchic caper" that "plays out like an Emir Kusturica feature".

The Washington Post called it a "grotesquely pandering caper" and singled out Grant's performance, as a child psychiatrist reacting unfavourably to his girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy, for his "insufferable muggings".

Ben Affleck's new movie as a director is an amazing real-life caper straight out of Ripley's Believe It or Not!

It says something about the dearth of strong female stars in American cinema that he hasn't been this well matched with a woman since Jennifer Lopez in the 1998 caper film "Out of Sight".

When he finally found a role in which he looked entirely at ease, it was in a film that was neither a standard-issue piece of studio entertainment nor quite an offbeat indie, but something in between: Steven Soderbergh's tricky comic caper movie "Out of Sight" (1998), based on a novel by Elmore Leonard, and with all the noirish eccentricity that implies.

The film has been described as a female version of The Hangover, but it's clearly more than a gross-out caper for ladettes.

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