Mr. Lucas intuits, with native cinematic genius, that this is the very crux of his art.

He's truly a cinematic genius.

It was cinematic genius.

For those unfamiliar with the cinematic genius of "Child's Play," Chucky is the mass-murdering rag doll that bears a striking resemblance to Bucs Coach Jon Gruden, who coached the Raiders last season.

Guinness really was the cinematic genius of his day.

(Or cinematic genius, which is always in short supply.)

His narrator writes a phony movie review about a movie that doesn't exist, only to discover that everyone in Los Angeles is talking about this work of cinematic genius.

To the Editor: It is depressing enough to be fed pap at the movie theater, but then to have to live with its being heralded everywhere as cinematic genius is far more than a lot of us can bear.

Treating Hitler as a satirical subject worked for Chaplin, the critics here agree, but he was a cinematic genius.