Example sentences for: owen

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  • The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.

  • A popular student with only so-so grades, he seeks the help of the class brain, Quentin (Chris Owen), a skinny redhead with a complexion that could charitably be likened to the surface of the moon.

  • Owen Gleiberman is the film's sole supporter, praising it as "pungent, funny, and surprisingly forceful" Entertainment Weekly ). (Find out more about Willis here and about Pfeiffer here.)

  • "[F]or a while, at least, the sheer journalistic energy of what we're seeing grips us in a casually exotic way" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The trouble: The plot is horrendous and ends up with an "obligatory traffic control emergency crisis" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) that takes all the spice out of what had been an unusual study of group dynamics.

  • Raves for this dystopian dark-side-of-the-American-dream tale starring Kevin Spacey as a "suburban Travis Bickle--off his rocker, but happy about it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), who experiences a massive midlife crisis and falls in lust with his teen-age daughter's friend.


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