Example sentences for: schickel

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  • Entertainment Weekly 's Lisa Schwarzbaum calls the film "blithe and exhilarating," and Time 's Richard Schickel calls it "utterly charming--and very smart."

  • Some love the "darkly sumptuous, hypnotically complex" plotting (Richard Schickel, Time ); others call the film "Masterpiece Theater for the MTV generation," riddled with glaring historical inaccuracies (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). Two things draw praise from all: 1) The spectacular art direction; 2) Cate Blanchett's performance as a feminist Virgin Queen.

  • "What will surprise everyone is the dry iciness, the burning coldness of Ormond's Smilla," says Time 's Richard Schickel.

  • since Tootsie " (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Critics also like David Mamet's screenplay for its jabs at the news media, out-of-touch liberals, and "everything that's awful in American life nowadays" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Dissenting, The New Yorker 's Daphne Merkin bemoans the film's "sophomoric" humor and its "cozy, video-ready cynicism."

  • Most pin the blame on the dreary, endless lawsuit; as David Denby puts it, "a movie that reaches a climax with the hero writing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency has landed in a certain amount of trouble" ( The New Yorker ). Richard Schickel of Time disagrees, calling the film "smart, tough, yet curiously moving."


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