Example sentences for: gleiberman

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  • Some see Gallo as the heir to Scorsese and the '70s neorealists, with the "audacity and flair of a major filmmaker" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They applaud his stylistic flourishes (collage shots, freeze frames), his self-deprecating humor, and audacious premise--a newly released prisoner kidnaps a teen tap dancer (Christina Ricci) to be his fake wife.

  • But some critics complain the film is "more dutiful than dramatic" (Leah Rozen, People ) or just "a courtroom drama of dull, soapbox ponderousness" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here for the official site.)

  • He's "the last of Hollywood's sex-god aristocrats" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The praise is less fulsome for Twilight , in which Newman plays a retired detective who is talked into investigating a murder even though his lover (Susan Sarandon) is implicated . The self-conscious cracks about aging and the stylish shots of Los Angeles are said to be entertaining, but the movie's pace is deemed sluggish.

  • Tucker's hyperactive antics make the film almost a "scamp minstrel show" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), while Chan is the butt of infantile Chinese-food-related jokes.

  • "He's a run of the mill screenwriter who created a myth that he was an idiosyncratic rebel," says Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman.


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