Example sentences for: ryan

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  • This was made clear not only by the film's title and logo but also by a scene in which Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan used AOL instant messaging while lying on their respective beds to discuss why guys revere the Godfather movies.

  • The two meet in cyberspace; the rest is thumb twiddling until they "solve their problems, fall into each other's arms and get down to the old rumpy-pumpy" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Fun, say the critics, as long as you can believe that "lurking in the next AOL chat room might be a Tom Hanks or a Meg Ryan and not some drooling 300-pound loser with bad skin" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Read Edelstein's review, in which he says Ephron's movies "go down easy, like Muzak," .)

  • 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.

  • A conceit this fragile needs to whiz along to keep our disbelief in suspension, but Meet Joe Black grinds on for three hours (longer than either Beloved or Saving Private Ryan ), and Pitt acts as if he has leased the screen by the year.

  • Raves mount for Saving Private Ryan . The Washington Post 's Stephen Hunter calls it "simply the greatest war movie ever made, and one of the great American movies."


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