Example sentences for: kehr

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  • Warner Bros. refused to have an advance critics screening for this update of the beloved 1960s British TV show, and the reason is now obvious: The movie is "an unqualified disaster" (Dave Kehr, Daily News ). Ralph Fiennes' painfully awkward John Steed and Uma Thurman's beautiful but empty Emma Peel are said to have none of the charm and sexual tension that graced their TV counterparts.

  • The second Studio 54/disco movie of the summer is pronounced "tacky, tiny and about as seductively nostalgic as those videotapes of your cousin's wedding" (Kehr, New York Daily News ). The film's weaknesses: 1) a moralizing story line--"a cleaned-up version of The Rake's Progress " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ); 2) poor acting from leads Ryan Phillippe and Neve Campbell; 3) cramped sets that fail to convey Studio 54's extravagance and debauchery.

  • Dave Kehr of the Daily News calls it "cool, sharply funny."

  • It's a film that "ably gives the audience what it wants: hope, revenge, and gross-out jokes" (Dave Kehr, New York Daily News ). (Check out preliminary models of the aliens at this site.)

  • an utter hoot" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). With a voice "like Truman Capote on Seconal" (Dave Kehr, Daily News ), Adam Sandler regresses from the borderline maturity of The Wedding Singer back to his trademark sweet, addled, violent character--this time in a formula sports-loser-turned-sports-hero flick aimed at the fraternity/junior-high-school crowd.


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