Richard Corliss Quotes
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It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.
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Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.
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Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.
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It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.
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Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
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The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.
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Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
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[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.
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It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.
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Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.
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Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.
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John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.
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