If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a….

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away..

My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that I haven't read many of th….

[Marlon] Brando was the only guy who could step out of that shadow at the end of that movie and be worth the wait..

What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacke….

It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aur….

You slide down in your seat and make yourself comfortable. On the screen in front of you, the movie image appears—enormous and overwhelming. If the m….

(Guy) Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. (Jeremy) Irons at least knows what kind of movie he'….

Nicholas Sparks recently went on record as saying he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. This is true in the same sense that I am a better no….

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences.….

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen..

Life always has an unhappy ending, but you can have a lot of fun along the way, and everything doesn't have to be dripping in deep significance..

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason..

The right really wants to punish you for having an opinion. And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinio….

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments..

People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been ….

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things li….

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think..

The fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday. And we've had a concerted policy of taking money away from the poor and giving it to the r….

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life….

Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them..