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Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old.
With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
Outlandish lyrics sung by smiling people in perfect harmony. Has that edge of surprise...a little nuts and really funny.
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
We must try to contribute joy to the world... I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
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.
In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.
Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.
'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.
Ben Stiller isn't funny - honest. Ben Stiller is very funny, and smart, and cute, too, in a neurotic, New York kind of way.
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.
The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.
One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.
I want to create a kind of new monster language for kids to play with, pick up, and incorporate into their own vocabularies.
I’ve long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.
In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.
Well, we're all dying in increments. I don't mind people knowing what I look like, but I don't want them thinking I'm dying.
Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.
Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.
My wife and daughter have accused me of being too silent at breakfast but I don't want to talk when I don't have much to say.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.
The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'
If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.
Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.
'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.
For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.
Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat.
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to?
Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.
I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center.
A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.
It looked like Ben Stiller was one of the showbiz meteorites who was moving so fast he would soon have no worlds left to conquer.
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
I had the perfect accident for the perfect idea. I was rendered immobile where the only thing I could do is mess with my computer.
It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks!
One hopeful sign that the filmmakers can learn and grow is that the sequel does not contain a single pie, if you know what I mean.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.