Example sentences for: morgenstern

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  • As played by Robin Williams, Patch Adams is first an "insufferable, sermonizing medical student" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) and later an in-your-face clown-doctor with a bedpan on his head and squeaky balloon animals in his hands.

  • Director Simon West ( Con Air ) "shows a knack for underutilizing good actors while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" (Maslin, the New York Times ). And in his scathing review in the Wall Street Journal , Morgenstern probably doesn't realize that his line describing the film as "soft-core porn in an expensive star package" is likely to attract rather than repel the target audience.

  • A few critics like this old-fashioned heist flick starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones despite its unoriginality: "It works because it is made stylishly, because Connery and Zeta-Jones are enormously attractive actors, and because of the romantic tension between them" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A slew of critics finds the whole thing a bit off: Connery has 40 years on Zeta-Jones, and the highlight of the film is Zeta-Jones' spandex-clad "demi-soft-core tai chi" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) as she attempts to evade an optical security system in the process of ripping off a priceless gold mask.

  • A "minimalist marvel," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.

  • The 11-year-old action franchise "begs for a mercy killing" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Many critics even wax nostalgic for the psychological acumen of earlier Lethal Weapon installments.


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