The true stars of the film are Jamel Debbouze, as Numérobis, Cleopatra's reluctant architect, and Gérard Darmon, who manages some wonderfully evil facial expressions as his slighted rival Amonbofis.
"Above all, he has managed symbols wonderfully, and that's not a trivial issue.
The very cleverest CEOs (and those who showed no mercy to their successors) like Coke's Robert Goizueta and GE's Jack Welch were able to manage expectations wonderfully until the day of their retirement.
Despite this fact, "Beijing Blues" manages to be wonderfully gritty and utterly authentic as it shows cops coping with ordinary Beijingers, quite a few of whom are short of money but long on bravado.
Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey, a "collection of 44 linked short stories, each reinterpreting a scene or episode from the Odyssey", is "a book of intellectual fireworks that also manages to be wonderfully entertaining", Andrew Holgate enthused in the Sunday Times.
She managed everything so wonderfully.
The relationship between the two sisters is lovingly portrayed, and the triangular dynamic with their father is wonderfully managed.
The frankness with which Takahata evokes Taeko's puberty, her loneliness, her yearnings, and how these mesh with her adult practicality and cheerful resourcefulness, is wonderfully managed.
This scene, Carroll's transformation into the White Rabbit as he photographs Alice (a marvelous moment, with the lighting, by Natasha Katz, making everything look like a photographic negative), and the fall down the hole are wonderfully managed.
Rory, incidentally, rather wonderfully managed to get up and down from Nonsense County at 8, and has now clattered his tee shot at 9 to ten feet, a fine birdie chance.
