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"The Lucky One" is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true. (Roger Ebert)
You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane. View quote
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Because I don't give the studios advanced quotes or an advanced look at my reviews. I think the readers deserve to read my reviews before the studios do. View quote
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It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. View quote
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I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President. View quote
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I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the paper or from television. So they wouldn't have had my quote opening day. View quote
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Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics. View quote
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. View quote
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Sophie's Choice is a fine, absorbing, wonderfully acted, heartbreaking movie. It is about three people who are faced with a series of choices, some frivolous, some tragic. As they flounder in the bewilderment of being human in an age of madness, they become our friends, and we love them. View quote
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As an act of filmmaking, it draws us in and doesn't let go. View quote
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I must slow down now, which is why I'm taking what I like to call "a leave of presence." (Roger Ebert)
It's said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn't care. I think he cared, but was too proud to ask. View quote
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The film's coda provides a vision of an afterlife, a desolate landscape on which quiet people solemnly recognize and greet one another, and all is understood in the fullness of time. View quote
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It's so rare to find a movie that doesn't take sides. View quote
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I said this is the Batman movie I've been waiting for; more correctly, this is the movie I did not realize I was waiting for, because I didn't realize that more emphasis on story and character and less emphasis on high-tech action was just what was needed. View quote
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Old age isn't for sissies, and neither is this film. View quote
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This is the kind of film that makes you feel intensely alive while you're watching it, and sends you out into the streets afterwards eager to talk deeply and urgently, to the person you are with. Whoever that happens to be. View quote
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Guyana-Cult of the Damned has crawled out from under a rock and into local theaters, and will do nicely as this week's example of the depths to which people will plunge in search of a dollar. The movie is a gruesome version of the Jonestown massacre of 1978, so badly written and directed it illustrates a simple rule of movie exhibition: If a film is nauseating and reprehensible enough in the first place, it doesn't matter how badly it's made - people will go anyway. View quote
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The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside... View quote
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What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food. View quote
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Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about. (Roger Ebert)
The day may never come when it is seen as funny. View quote
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Yes, we have more problems. But also more solutions, more opportunities and more freedom. View quote
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Milk was the right person in the right place at the right time, and he rose to the occasion. View quote
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We are connected with some people and never meet others, but it could easily have happened otherwise. View quote
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