Stephanie Zacharek - Movie Quotes

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It's mournful and troubling in a way that goes beyond ordinary movie manipulation. It burns clean.

Stephanie Zacharek
We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.

Stephanie Zacharek
You can talk film theory till you're blue in the face, but in the end, the thing that may haunt you most about a movie is a pair of eyes.

Stephanie Zacharek
Extravagant in movie terms but stingy in emotional ones, it embodies all of [director Steven] Spielberg's bad impulses and almost none of his good ones: It's a grand display of how well he knows how to work us over, and yet the desperation with which he tries to get to us is repulsive.

Stephanie Zacharek
It's a movie barely fit for a cretin, much less a King.... If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building — in disgust.

Stephanie Zacharek
Despite the bare butts and crude sex jokes — or because of them — this Adam Sandler vehicle addresses some of the biggest political problems of our time.... At the very least, it's got to be the first picture to use smelly-feet jokes as a means of parsing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But more than that, it's a mainstream movie that dares to make jokes about the kinds of complex political realities that most of us don't dare bring up at dinner parties.

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Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.

Stephanie Zacharek
I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all.

Stephanie Zacharek
The most interesting character here is an animal, a sturdy-looking white and black bulldog, who appears throughout the movie, angel style, to speak the truth — silently. In this load of mind-bendy bushwa, he's the only thing worth watching, or listening to.

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