Example sentences for: dreher

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  • In this Upper West Side update of Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner , Ryan plays a "lemony-fresh children's bookshop owner" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ) about to be put out of business by the discount megabookstore owner Hanks.

  • Rod Dreher of the New York Post is scathing, dismissing it as "ooey-gooey schmoopie slop" and "ersatz romantic tapioca" and comparing the personality of Kilmer's character to that of Snuggles the fabric-softener bear.

  • It's all "bullets, bombs, and boobs--the biggest boob being Van Damme, natch" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). But "for those eager to bid adieu to their credibility for 82 minutes," at least the action "rarely flags" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ).

  • Forgetting that the original Dolittle was also panned, critics pine for "the good old days of children's movies" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). They lament the remake's addition of "a witless barrage of off-color bathroom humor" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ) and its use of sophisticated computer graphics to make cute animals engage in sexual innuendo.

  • first rate" (Dreher, the New York Post ), and the photography is a "seductively beautiful black and white" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann gives the film its only pan, saying that Voight performs well below his abilities and that Boorman's directing is a "disappointment."


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