"To call it an anticlimax would be an……" — Roger Ebert
"To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets."
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269 Quotes by Roger Ebert
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Kindness’ covers all of my political beliefs.
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To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement; greeting cards have expressed more passion.
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