Example sentences for: ryan

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  • The most acclaimed and second highest grossing film of 1998 (just behind Armageddon ) was Saving Private Ryan . Though Steven Spielberg's film is fiction and Brokaw's book is something akin to oral history, they have in common a fashionable theme: the nobility of those who served in the armed forces during World War II and, by extension, Americans of that age in general.

  • If I were a parent of adolescents, I'd try to keep them away from Marked for Death but not from Saving Private Ryan , even though the latter is far more vividly gruesome.

  • Also, think about how Meg Ryan's leftist-writer boyfriend, played by Greg Kinnear, is portrayed in the film.

  • The creepy part is, Upham is a sensitive, artistic type who announces early in the movie that he wants to depict the bonds that form among soldiers in combat--all of which also applies to the auteur of Saving Private Ryan , Steven Spielberg.

  • The surfeit of mildly interesting plots surrounding each duo results in a film that is "the cinematic answer to one of those parties where you pig out on canapés" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). The highlight of the film: a wonderful performance by Angelina Jolie (Jon Voight's daughter) as a tough club kid who falls in love with a blue-haired Ryan Phillippe.


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