Example sentences for: holden

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  • And, as Libby Holden, the campaign's self-proclaimed "dust buster," the manic-depressive idealist who accepts as her mission the elimination of all dirt, Kathy Bates is a dyke tornado.

  • The chief complaints: 1) Wilde's sharp edge has been dulled--it's "likable" and "handsome" but "diluted" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ); 2) the story "unfolds with all the urgency of a dainty tea napkin" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ); and 3) the plot, a blackmail scheme with many moral quandaries to resolve, ends too tidily and happily for its own good.

  • Yes, Grant's cute, but the movie's a stinker, "little more than a series of stitched together gags" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Reviewers disagree about whose fault it is.

  • "You can also feel the technological revolution in movies that Star Wars ushered in beginning to turn on itself," says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden.

  • art film par excellence" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). Critics like its dark humor and shadow-heavy style, deeming Aronofsky to be the "rare indie filmmaker who doesn't want to make hip romantic sitcoms" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Not all are impressed: The New York Times ' Stephen Holden calls the black-and-white hand-held camera style "awfully hard to watch."


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