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Mine run less toward schlock romances than schlock thrillers but, hey, I can recognize an expertly engineered, inspirational soap opera when I see one.
He appeared in Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die ; a film by the mildly celebrated German director Helmut Käutner; Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More ; and several crisp English thrillers and war flicks.
Some complain that the film doesn't do much to entertain parents and observe that "[i]n this yet-to-be-potty-trained universe, poop looms as large as explosions in action thrillers" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). Other critics claim that the Rugrats kids are "the funniest bunch of crumb-snatchers to come down the pike since Buckwheat, Alfalfa, and the Our Gang gang" (O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Find out more about the Rugrats TV show.)
It shouldn't make a lick of sense, let alone feel all of a piece, but The Matrix is actually one of the more lyrical sci-fi action thrillers ever made, in which space and time become love slaves to the directors' witty visual fancies.
If my book-loving peers would rather spend their beach reading on plodding thrillers than on the heart-stopping adventure stories of Philip Pullman (author of the "Dark Materials" trilogy), say, or the scintillating allegory of Norton Juster ( The Phantom Tollbooth ), then nothing could be done about it, short of reading aloud to them when they were laid up with the flu (which does work, but you lose your voice).