Janet Maslin Quotes
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The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.
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She is lawyer enough to have changed all but one name (her husband's) in the part of the book devoted to criminal abandon.
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The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?
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I think they're silly in a way that's absolutely undemanding.
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Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.
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[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
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It was apples and oranges. We wanted to give both films a leg up.
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Gonzo . . . acidic hilarity . . . 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star.
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Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.
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Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.