'Sharper' review: Julianne Moore's wonderfully wicked performance is right on the money

.PeterTravers says Apple TV+'s new series 'Sharper,' is 'sleek, sexy, sophisticated fun,' but the show's ending falters.

1:00I don't want to overpraise "Sharper," a terrific, twisty thriller now on Apple TV+, since its ending falters and it doesn't exactly rewrite the playbook on what a classic about con artists can be . But oh boy does "Sharper" satisfy as sleek, sexy, sophisticated fun.

Set in a Manhattan of haves and have-nots, "Sharper" stars Julianne Moore and Sebastian Stan. But you don't meet them right way. Part of the film's puzzle structure is to keep us off balance as the plot divides itself into chapters named after each of the main characters.Up first is Tom, a bookstore owner gently acted by Justice Smith . Into his literary mecca ambles shy Sandra , a Ph.D.

Got that? No worries. Just go with the flow of this mesmerizer where nothing and no one is what they seem. Debuting feature director Benjamin Caron, who's done astute TV work on "Andor" and "The Crown," mines every shocking turn in the script by Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. You may want to see it twice if you don't keep a scorecard.But even when the script threatens to spill over the edge of improbability, the actors hold you in a tight grip.

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