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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.
One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered
This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in
If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.
Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.
For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.
'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."
If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'
The secret to success is written on the doors of this auditorium. One side says 'Push,' the other side says 'Pull.
I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
Start. Don’t look back. If at the end it doesn’t meet your hopes, start again. Now you know more about your hopes.
People never think of themselves as choosing to be politically correct. They simply think in the way that they do.
'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait.
All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
Hitchcock's murder set-pieces are so potent, they can galvanize (and frighten) even a viewer who's seen them before!
Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program.
I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.
Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.
'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature.
Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.
The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.
I really do like to write and when I'm not, I think, "Okay, I'll be a good citizen now" but fact is, that's secondary.
I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.
Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.
As a performer, I could be like, "I don't want to leave that in there." But as a producer, I have to leave it in there.
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.
Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.
We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.
Teenagers used to go to the movies to see adults having sex. Today adults go to the movies to see teenagers having sex.
When I am writing my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.
Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.