Example sentences for: egoyan

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  • It alone "truly exceeded its advance hype," says People . Canadian director Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, about a school-bus accident, also impresses critics, winning him plaudits as a "postmodern Hitchcock" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Other favorites include Donnie Brasco, The Wings of the Dove, and Face/Off, while the well-reviewed Boogie Nights and Titanic both fail to make many lists.

  • Though it has flaws (Egoyan's decision to romanticize the father-daughter incest blunted the force of the ending), The Sweet Hereafter has none of the insufferable smugness found in so much indie film in this Sundance era.

  • Atom Egoyan, the Canadian director ( Exotica , 1994; The Sweet Hereafter , 1997) who adapted and directed the book, does tender, morbidly evocative work.

  • Egoyan has invented a delicious character--Hiditch's celebrity French chef mom--for his wife, the marvelous Arsinée Khanjian, and she gives the movie a jolt of energy whenever she pops up on TV screens or in Hiditch's memory.

  • High praise for art-house director Atom Egoyan's adaptation of Russell Banks' novel about a town that loses all its children in a school bus crash.


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