Example sentences for: owen

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  • It's not as funny as The Waterboy , it's not as sweet as The Wedding Singer , and it fails at its only real goal: It "doesn't generate a lot of big laughs" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here for info on Sandler's earlier films.)

  • Critics profess surprise that Scottish director Danny Boyle's follow-up to the much-praised Trainspotting should have turned out to be a "pileup of spectacular flakiness" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They call the plot, in which a disgruntled janitor (Ewan McGregor) kidnaps and then falls in love with his boss's daughter (Cameron Diaz), "pure, vintage fluff" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Scenes involving angels, played by Delroy Lindo and Holly Hunter, are said to be especially silly.

  • Critics like the all-star cast of voices (Meg Ryan, John Cusack, and Christopher Lloyd) and the animation, which get "the Disney house style down cold" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). But they profess disappointment at the story, especially at the part where Rasputin causes the Russian Revolution by casting a magic spell.

  • This was the unique Charles Hamilton, alias Frank Richards, Martin Clifford, Owen Conquest, Winston Cardew, and many other pen-names.

  • Although many note that this is "a junior-league One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ) and that the film lapses into trite battles between patients and hospital staff, the film stays mainly on target, at its best when displaying its "meticulous, true-to-life portrait of a time (the late 1960's) and place (the hothouse world of upper-middle-class Boston suburbia)" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). (Click here to visit the official site.)


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