Outstanding films are usually greater than the sum of their parts. This seems obvious. When you take great acting, great cinematography, a terrific story and

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“You never know what’s going to happen next. And when you think you know, that’s when you really don’t know. That’s a paradox.” -Auggie Wren

Look up Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981) in just about any guidebook to movies and somewhere in the review you’ll find the word “epic.” This undoubtedly

I am really sorry about this. I mean it. You see, I just didn’t know. It was only after I’d done the notes for this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLCSvfRrleM   I was much further out than you thought  And not waving but drowning. —Stevie Smith In 1953, in London, England, a young man

“Somehow he [Mozart] managed to make this preposterous bit of humbug the most profound of all his operas….In the most dazzling feat of his career,

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t choose a word such as “gritty” to describe a children’s film. This is not an adjective that sits well with Disney, or

“One of these days [the Powers that Be’ll] go too far and, well, you know what I’m talking about. I’m an optimist and I know

GARCIN: Hm! So here we are? VALET: Yes, Mr. Garcin. GARCIN: And this is what it [Hell] looks like? VALET: Yes. GARCIN: Second Empire furniture,

Dolores protested,] “Surely, you cannot think that—” “Think it?” Toddy shook his head. “I don’t even think that you’re trying to steer me away from

While I’m sure that a good number of my readers will at least have heard of Lucille Ball, that may not be the case with