crackerjack

In the film, Reeve can brood as well as he can smolder, punch as precisely as he can deliver a crackerjack line of dialogue.

For 35 years, Cruise’s super spy Ethan Hunt and his rotating, crackerjack team of rogue agents have been saving the world from annihilation time and time again, skirting death by a hair each time.

Greene’s crackerjack defense was to insist, “The people criticizing me are not the American people.”

But it retains its chokehold on pop culture not because of its influence, but its quality; this is a crackerjack thriller, cleverly constructed and directed with quicksilver intensity by the great John McTiernan.

Above all else, Winkler is a crackerjack researcher, deftly laying out the myriad questions, arguments and mysteries swirling around Shakespeare.