Example sentences for: holden

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  • Critics debate the merits of the star, Gwyneth Paltrow, more than anything else in this "slender romantic comedy" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). The Washington Post 's Rita Kempley calls Paltrow a "fair reminder of the young Audrey Hepburn," but Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum says her "image project[s] better in fashion-magazine stills than in motion."

  • "Flawless is so awful it just might put an end to Hollywood's hypocritical infatuation with men in drag as symbols of its own supposedly liberated sexual attitudes" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Critics call it corny, predictable, and packed with gay stereotypes.

  • Nossiter's script about an affair between a homeless man (David Suchet) and a woman (Lisa Harrow) who mistakes him for a British filmmaker is called "elegant" (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ), and Suchet is said to give "a virtuoso turn" (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Stephen Holden calls the film a formulaic, "overly schematic exercise in cinematic hide-and-seek."

  • Most people would agree with Holden that a code of honor is worth at least paying lip service to.

  • The only negative reviews come from two critics who write for big papers--Stephen Holden of the New York Times and Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today --which makes you wonder if they've got so successful they've forgotten the torture a jammed copy machine can inflict on the lowly.


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