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Example sentences for: one-joke

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Janet Maslin (the New York Times ) positively glows for the film, calling it a "mordantly hilarious cri de coeur ." But most critics aren't so enchanted: Although "there are lots of punchy lines," the "one-joke movie doesn't have all that much to say" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). (Click for David Edelstein's review in Slate , and here to find out more about Brooks.)
But some of the one-joke roles turn out to have more under the surface than is at first apparent.
Cheaper still is most of Bowfinger , a one-joke movie that's like Ed Wood (1994) without the poetry or emotion that Tim Burton managed to coax out of re-creations of Grade Z genre flicks.