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The handling of this plot device, with the canny veteran Reid wandering in and out of the drama like an informational time bomb, is a little clumsy.

The “Predator” franchise is only slightly younger than “Star Wars” but equally as canny when it comes to marketing to children.

Chenoweth, who is as gleaming as a holiday ornament on Liberace’s Christmas tree, arrives at a canny balance of quixotic generosity and parvenu carelessness in her portrayal of a woman she refuses to lampoon.

Political power still resides, for the moment, with current Taoiseach Micheál Martin, a canny operator whose principles and policies are notoriously difficult to pin down.

But it proved a canny political move - he climbed up the ladder rapidly and held multiple ministerial posts.