Good grief. Salon.com critic Andrew O’Hehir, who wound up in a blogging skirmish with Roger Ebert after blasting
Secretariat as a “honey-dipped fantasy vision of the American past as the Tea Party would like to imagine it,” is at it again.
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Here is Roger Ebert on
Final Destination 5. His final sentence is classic.
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It’s not often that I encounter a Line I Wish I Had Written right in the headline of a review, but here’s a case in point.
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Major props to Dr. David C. Downing, whose essay on
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (
Ignatius Insight) closes with this brilliant line:
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Arts & Faith veteran “mrmando” skewers Ron Howard’s version of the Dan Brown potboiler with a brilliant angle I hadn’t thought of.
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Okay, so this is like, what, the third shout-out in as many weeks to reader Victor, but his combox quip in my NCRegister.com review of
Eat Pray Love deserves the widest possible audience.
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Okay, that’s not literally true, because in order to write a line about
Sex and the City 2 I would have had to screen the film, and it’s hard to imagine anything being worth that, especially in the same week as
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and
Agora. I’m not sure my soul wouldn’t implode.
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Could Thomas Balmes’
Babies, now playing in barely-limited release around the country, be the
year’s most important movie? Jeffrey Overstreet thinks it just might, and while I’ve already excerpted the lines below explaining why in a previous blog post, his comments are worth a dedicated blog post.
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Quoting generously from my longish
Robin Hood review, Carl Olsen of
Ignatius Insight Scoop adds:
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