A. O. Scott famous quotes

04-17-2025

We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,
-- A. O. Scott

#Marketing #Pages #Strange
STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily.
-- A. O. Scott

#Letting Go
Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
-- A. O. Scott

#Real #Touching #Directors
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
-- A. O. Scott

#Running #Book #Tears
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films Iâ€™ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
-- A. O. Scott

#Perception #Stories #World
The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.
-- A. O. Scott

#Musical #Performances #Musical Performance
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
-- A. O. Scott

#History #Cost #Pearls
AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
-- A. O. Scott

#Arrogance #Levels #Film
Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
-- A. O. Scott

#Democracy #Campaigns #Cinema
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
-- A. O. Scott

#Loyalty #Honesty #Drama
I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
-- A. O. Scott

#Differences #Stupidity #Dumb
Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
-- A. O. Scott

#Essentials #Timbuktu #Feels

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