Sentence examples for ingenious comedy from inspiring English sources

The dungeon master, that eight-sided-dice-wielding arbiter in any Dungeons & Dragons game, serves as a potent metaphor in "She Kills Monsters," Qui Nguyen's deceptively breezy and rather ingenious comedy.

Back to the Future is a blockbuster with sympathy, an ingenious comedy, a thriller that never sacrifices tension for fun – and I'm proud it played a part in my upbringing.

A surreal romp about a misfit little girl who grows up to crusade for sensual joy in a grouchy world, wielding magical colors and counselled by the ghost of her grandmother, it is worth seeing for its visual and musical gorgeousness and for its intermittently ingenious comedy.

Then came the ingenious comedy-thriller, A Touch Of Larceny (1960),with James Mason in a lighter than usual role.

Alan Ayckbourn may be Britain's most-performed playwright after Shakespeare, responsible for nearly 80 formally ingenious comedies about the dysfunctional middle classes, plus the establishment of Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre as its own cultural ecosystem.

Joseph Cedar's Israeli movie Footnote is a sprightly, shrewd and ingenious black comedy of middle age and disappointed ambition, which some have sniffed at for being middleweight entertainment.

"Rid of Me," an ingenious black comedy written and directed by James Westby, comes at you like a horror movie before settling down into something quieter but equally skin crawling.

This gives the evening an elliptical Beckettian quality and prompts some ingenious physical comedy: at one point, Ieuan has to struggle to place the capsule in an envelope and pass it to Zach by means of an overhead pulley.

(Dargis) ★ 'Ruby Sparks' (R, 1 44) In this ingenious, delightful romantic comedy — a variation on the Pygmalion myth — a celebrated young author (Paul Dano) falls in love with his fictional dream girl (Zoe Kazan) who comes to life with many amusing complications.

(Scott) ★ 'Ruby Sparks' (R, 1 44) In this ingenious, delightful romantic comedy — a variation on the Pygmalion myth — a celebrated young author (Paul Dano) falls in love with his fictional dream girl (Zoe Kazan) who comes to life with many amusing complications.

(Holden) ★ 'Ruby Sparks' (R, 1 44) In this ingenious, delightful romantic comedy — a variation on the Pygmalion myth — a celebrated young author (Paul Dano) falls in love with his fictional dream girl (Zoe Kazan) who comes to life with many amusing complications.