Example sentences for: sarris

How can you use “sarris” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "A happy exception to the rule that any movie with 'sex' in the title must be mediocre" (Andrew Sarris, the New York Observer ). A precocious 16-year-old, played by Christina Ricci--"Lolita's evil twin" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times )--runs off with her gay brother's lover.

  • The auteur theory was quickly challenged, most notably by Pauline Kael, who shredded Sarris in the pages of Film Quarterly . But the "new Hollywood" of the '70s--with Kael as its champion, scold, and Cassandra--was dominated by young directors who attained, thanks to the collapse of the old studios, an unprecedented degree of creative autonomy, and who thought of themselves as artists.

  • "One feels great risks were not taken, which is unusual for even the worst Altman films," says the New York Observer 's Andrew Sarris.

  • He wielded immense power, but who recalls a single thing he wrote today, especially compared with the memorable work of James Agee or Andrew Sarris or, above all, Pauline Kael?


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