"We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spou…"

"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 movi…"

"Everything about Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, from its toy-box colors to its superb, hyper-animated Danny Elfman score to…"

"It would be destined for the trash heap of Shakespeare adaptations, if not for its female lead, and its heart, 17-yea…"

"[Director James] Cameron manhandles the real story, scavenging it for his own puny narrative purposes. It's a film ma…"

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

"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 …"

"Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing pictu…"

"I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagina…"

"Women's desire is a mysterious, feral thing, and if you think you've got it figured out because you've looked at a fe…"