Maybe it doesn't take a production budget north of $100 million to crank out a superhero film these days.

| Sep 26, 2017

Sleight... is a minor film with major virtues: tenderness, imagination, and a strong grasp of character and setting.

| May 4, 2017

There's more going on here than meets the eye, but Sleight's sleeveless heart beats true and conjures its characters to wild life.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 4, 2017

[Latimore] has a magnetic screen presence mixed with a down-to-Earth directness. And while he's got swagger for days, he's just as compelling when his character is quietly contemplating his next move.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2017

The seams still show at times - this is obviously a low-budget movie - but for the most part, it's surprising, intriguing, and fun.

| Apr 28, 2017

The film lives and dies by Latimore's performance, which is quiet and ever-shifting.

| Apr 28, 2017

Dillard's feature debut squanders its high concept ... and serves up a low-rent, Nickelodeon-lite version of that story, blowing his chance with corny acting, paint-by-numbers plotting, and a dippy score.

| Apr 28, 2017

A tight tale well-told, with an appealing hero, a direct route to satisfaction, and the ever-present sense that the merest turn toward stylistic extravagance or adventure frippery would sink it.

| Apr 27, 2017

Dillard's not interested in the Zing! Pow! Bam! Sleight is quiet, almost naturalistic, even when Bo is stopping bullets with his bare hand.

| Original Score: B | Apr 27, 2017

Sleight is a captivating slow burning thriller and brilliant origin story.

| Apr 27, 2017

Sleight succeeds with its creation of a modern quasi-superhero in Bo and the launching of an electric new leading man in Latimore.

| Apr 27, 2017

Like Moonlight and Get Out, this is a non-traditional, multi-genre film with impressive cinematography, a smart screenplay with some creative twists - and brilliant performances from the lead players.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 27, 2017

It ... becomes a weirdly expository melodrama.

| Original Score: C | Apr 27, 2017

An unlikely superhero origin story, executed with the style, themes and budget of independent cinema.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2017

Like the best illusionists, it knows that mystery is the key to its magic.

| Apr 25, 2017

Sleight never shows much interest in exploring how blackness can inform its genre's tropes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 24, 2017

Magic tricks become shorthand for the power of personal transformation in JD Dillard's modestly scaled thriller that's equally an accessible domestic drama.

| Aug 4, 2016

J.D. Dillard's smooth-as-silk crime drama is an efficient piece of work.

| May 3, 2016