Film Quotes by A. O. Scott

12 Film quotes by A. O. Scott

A. O. Scott distills his film criticism into a dozen crisp statements. Known for sharp insight, his words here capture the essence of his analytical approach without the surrounding essay.

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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

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Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

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Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

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Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

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The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

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ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the…

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STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind…

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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally…

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Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call…

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The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone…

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My fellow critics and I may occasionally fault a movie for departing, in detail or in spirit, from its literary source, but…

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Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts…

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The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail…

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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

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Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability…

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Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting…

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AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

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Those reliable axioms about the taste and expectations of the mass movie audience are not so much laws of nature as artifacts of corporate…

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The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in…

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The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

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The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

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War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

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ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the way director…

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STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily.

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