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Quality survives.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Quality
Survives
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Audiences deserve better.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Audience
Deserve
Deserve Better
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I'm a lifelong Disney nut.
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Lifelong
Nuts
Disney
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Timing in life is everything.
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Life Is
Timing
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You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.
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Clever
Helping
Want
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NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
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Anchors
Brian
Comic
Disguise
Nbc
Anchor
Standup
Williams
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Shailene Woodley is reason enough to see 'The Fault in Our Stars.'
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Faults
Reason
Stars
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Christmas
Smile
Carols
Fool Proof
Stories
Carol
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Television is what made It's a Wonderful Life the classic it is today.
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Classic
Television
Today
Wonderful Life
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Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Technology
Animation
Film
Polar Express
Attempt
Express
Polar
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Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Animated
Beast
Best Picture
Firsts
Feature
Nominated
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I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
People
Sentimental
Thinking
Sentiment
Reject
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Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Believe
Executives
Hollywood
Process
End-All
Moviemaking
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Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Affection
Cry
Single
Special
Every Single Time
Exact
Spot
Single Time
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If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Snow
Willing
Zombie
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Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Documentaries
Eye
Hitting
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Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Hitchcock
Murder
Pieces
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Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Firsts
Stories
Thrillers
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Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.
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Men
Beautiful
Two
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If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Credibility
Honest
People
Thinking
Destroy
Spot
Right Away
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With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Achievement
Eye
Special
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I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Good Fortune
Interviews
Memories
Teamwork
Upbeat
Walt
Warm
Good Great Memories
Disney
Interview
Lee
Peggy
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The subtle performances of the leads, the remarkable Irrfan Khan and the engaging Nimrat Kaur, make 'The Lunchbox' a pleasure to watch.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Pleasure
Subtle
Watches
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I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Christmas
Smile
Cynical
People
Thinking
Movies Today People
Edge
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When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Delightful
Kind
Santa
Sensibility
Sentimental
Allen
Clause
Layered
Onto
Tim
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Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Concentration
Los Angeles
Palaces
Residents
Surviving
United States
Angeles
Los
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Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Alternatives
Available
Dvds
Games
Spite
Streaming
Video
Movie Theaters
Theaters
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Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Chaplin
Play
Today
Years
Comedies
Plays
Shakespeare
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Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Film
Watches
Worthwhile
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I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
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Kids
Class
Documentaries
Fifth
Independent
Majors
Teach
Usc
Blockbusters
Independent Films
Whom
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The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Absurd
Lasts
Thinking
Walt
Years
Disney
Refused
Repeat
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Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Mindset
Proven
Quantity
Sure Thing
Thinking
Way
Bet
Hedge
Remake
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It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)
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Life
Alive
Film
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While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Advantage
Boss
Done
Profile
Real
Walt
Figurehead
Jack
Nobody Else
Occasionally
Warner
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Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who aren’t necessarily plugged into comic strip history... I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Book
Disney Animation
Feelings
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I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such a long time. James Dean became a star in one calendar year, and then he left us. But he's still being talked about, he's still being revered, he's still being iconized forty years later. I don't think there's another example like it in the entire history of movies.
Leonard Maltin / Film Critic
Stars
Thinking
Years
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