Sleight

If Sleight wasn’t so entertaining, one might be tempted to define it as a social drama in which we are witnesses to the lack of opportunities young black men are provided.

2883d ago

“Sleight” is an ambitious genre mash-up about a young street magician that pulls off a nifty bit of trickery itself.

2883d ago

Sleight fuses superhero story with a tough coming-of-age tale, and it enlivens and elevates both genres into something new and different, while heralding the arrival of Latimore as a star.

2883d ago

Sleight fuses superhero story with a tough coming-of-age tale, and it enlivens and elevates both genres into something new and different, while heralding the arrival of Latimore as a star.

2883d ago

Sleight fuses superhero story with a tough coming-of-age tale, and it enlivens and elevates both genres into something new and different, while heralding the arrival of Latimore as a star.

2883d ago

“Sleight” is an ambitious genre mash-up about a young street magician that pulls off a nifty bit of trickery itself.

2883d ago

“Sleight” is an ambitious genre mash-up about a young street magician that pulls off a nifty bit of trickery itself.

2883d ago

“Sleight” is an ambitious genre mash-up about a young street magician that pulls off a nifty bit of trickery itself.

2883d ago

Sleight fuses superhero story with a tough coming-of-age tale, and it enlivens and elevates both genres into something new and different, while heralding the arrival of Latimore as a star.

2883d ago

Jacob Latimore is a winning young hero playing a street magician in over his head with criminals in director and co-writer JD Dillard’s confident genre hybrid.

2883d ago

Jacob Latimore is a winning young hero playing a street magician in over his head with criminals in director and co-writer JD Dillard’s confident genre hybrid.

2883d ago

JD Dillard’s directorial debut, co-starring Jacob Latimore, Dule Hill and Seychelle Gabriel, appeared in the festival’s NEXT section.

2883d ago

Jacob Latimore is a winning young hero playing a street magician in over his head with criminals in director and co-writer JD Dillard’s confident genre hybrid.

2883d ago

JD Dillard’s directorial debut, co-starring Jacob Latimore, Dule Hill and Seychelle Gabriel, appeared in the festival’s NEXT section.

2883d ago

JD Dillard’s directorial debut, co-starring Jacob Latimore, Dule Hill and Seychelle Gabriel, appeared in the festival’s NEXT section.

2883d ago

Jacob Latimore is a winning young hero playing a street magician in over his head with criminals in director and co-writer JD Dillard’s confident genre hybrid.

2883d ago

JD Dillard’s directorial debut, co-starring Jacob Latimore, Dule Hill and Seychelle Gabriel, appeared in the festival’s NEXT section.

2883d ago

Sleight only looks fresh when compared to your average overblown superhero story.

2883d ago

You’d hope that a film like this could put a bold new spin on the superhero story. The reverse is true: Here we are in 2017, and even our nifty low-budget crime movies are building a cinematic universe, and saving the best stuff for the sequel.

2883d ago

You’d hope that a film like this could put a bold new spin on the superhero story. The reverse is true: Here we are in 2017, and even our nifty low-budget crime movies are building a cinematic universe, and saving the best stuff for the sequel.

2883d ago

You’d hope that a film like this could put a bold new spin on the superhero story. The reverse is true: Here we are in 2017, and even our nifty low-budget crime movies are building a cinematic universe, and saving the best stuff for the sequel.

2883d ago

Sleight only looks fresh when compared to your average overblown superhero story.

2883d ago

Sleight only looks fresh when compared to your average overblown superhero story.

2883d ago

You’d hope that a film like this could put a bold new spin on the superhero story. The reverse is true: Here we are in 2017, and even our nifty low-budget crime movies are building a cinematic universe, and saving the best stuff for the sequel.

2883d ago

Sleight only looks fresh when compared to your average overblown superhero story.

2883d ago

Sleight's greatest trick is hiding expected action for so long, only to capture attention through more familiar dramatic trappings.

2883d ago

Sleight's greatest trick is hiding expected action for so long, only to capture attention through more familiar dramatic trappings.

2883d ago

Sleight's greatest trick is hiding expected action for so long, only to capture attention through more familiar dramatic trappings.

2883d ago

Sleight's greatest trick is hiding expected action for so long, only to capture attention through more familiar dramatic trappings.

2883d ago

First-time director J.D. Dillard shows future potential with this low-budget, high-concept misfire about a drug dealer who thinks he's magic.

2883d ago

The director builds to one big, beautiful revelation. But the story he tells in the lead-up doesn’t distract so much as it politely asks you to stand up so that it can place the trick card under your ass.

2883d ago

First-time director J.D. Dillard shows future potential with this low-budget, high-concept misfire about a drug dealer who thinks he's magic.

2883d ago

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy,” diarist F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. Sleight too often falls to homonym level, but Dillard and his cast bring the pain with deep, defenseless feelings, indeed, tragedy included, which is probably more than you can say for the upcoming onslaught of summer superhero blockbusters-to-be.

2883d ago

The director builds to one big, beautiful revelation. But the story he tells in the lead-up doesn’t distract so much as it politely asks you to stand up so that it can place the trick card under your ass.

2883d ago

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy,” diarist F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. Sleight too often falls to homonym level, but Dillard and his cast bring the pain with deep, defenseless feelings, indeed, tragedy included, which is probably more than you can say for the upcoming onslaught of summer superhero blockbusters-to-be.

2883d ago

First-time director J.D. Dillard shows future potential with this low-budget, high-concept misfire about a drug dealer who thinks he's magic.

2883d ago

The director builds to one big, beautiful revelation. But the story he tells in the lead-up doesn’t distract so much as it politely asks you to stand up so that it can place the trick card under your ass.

2883d ago

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy,” diarist F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. Sleight too often falls to homonym level, but Dillard and his cast bring the pain with deep, defenseless feelings, indeed, tragedy included, which is probably more than you can say for the upcoming onslaught of summer superhero blockbusters-to-be.

2883d ago

The director builds to one big, beautiful revelation. But the story he tells in the lead-up doesn’t distract so much as it politely asks you to stand up so that it can place the trick card under your ass.

2883d ago

“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy,” diarist F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote. Sleight too often falls to homonym level, but Dillard and his cast bring the pain with deep, defenseless feelings, indeed, tragedy included, which is probably more than you can say for the upcoming onslaught of summer superhero blockbusters-to-be.

2883d ago

First-time director J.D. Dillard shows future potential with this low-budget, high-concept misfire about a drug dealer who thinks he's magic.

2883d ago

J.D. Dillard’s film never shows much interest in exploring how blackness can inform its genre’s tropes.

2883d ago

J.D. Dillard’s film never shows much interest in exploring how blackness can inform its genre’s tropes.

2883d ago

J.D. Dillard’s film never shows much interest in exploring how blackness can inform its genre’s tropes.

2883d ago

J.D. Dillard’s film never shows much interest in exploring how blackness can inform its genre’s tropes.

2883d ago