And "Argo" exults in what a movie can do when its story has a compelling core.
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As Girls go, this one is irresistible from the first moment she opens her mouth: When was the last time you couldn't wait to find out what a movie character was all about?
He just fulminated about what a good movie it was, how major its advances in animation technology, almost as if we weren't there.
The MPAA has never revealed its guidelines for what qualifies a movie for a G, PG, PG-13, R or even the dreaded NC-17 rating, but Hollywood producers have a second sense for the tipping points between categories.
Yesterday Mr. Ebert celebrated 46 years as what he called a movie critic.
"He's a wonderful collaborator, he's very generous and very open and was very interested in learning what the difference between a book and a movie was in terms of what the style would be, and not in the slightest precious about preserving stuff from the book, " Rudin said.
"All of a sudden, what she did was like in a movie, " he said.
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But instead of making a movie about what the music meant, Curtis, aping the manner of a naughty English picture from about 1955, has made a movie about the sexual arrangements on board.
Brooks has actually made a movie about what's wrong with the movies that he's started making.
What you see in a Hollywood movie or a made-for-television series is not war.
Promised Land is a movie about what happens before the drilling rigs and man camps rumble into town.
That's what you get in a horror movie, just before something bad happens.
The frightening fact is that what appears more like a Hollywood movie is a life-long nightmare for the Buff family.
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But what did people expect from a movie that started life as a fake trailer for the 2007 movie Grindhouse?
To help make "Lincoln" into what he calls "a timeless movie, " Mr. Kaminski adjusted the lighting to de-emphasize the bright colors of the historically accurate sets and costumes.
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Clint Eastwood is back doing what he's supposed to be doing in "Trouble With the Curve, " a sentimental baseball saga that is the inverse of "Moneyball" in almost every respect and shows the star's still got what it takes to carry a movie home.
Audiences got a horrifying glimpse of what it can look like when a studio slaps a movie into 3-D after it has been filmed.
"Finally a movie that captures what's going on in my head 24 hours a day, " Sheen said.
Many family members of those who died on flight 93 have voiced support for a new movie about what happened when the plane went down.
Johnson said the men, described to the FBI by passengers as being "Middle Eastern" in appearance, were watching a movie clip of what appeared to be a suicide bomber.
Three decades later, in Sri Lanka, he was trying to figure how to use technology to bridge the gap between his imagination and what could be shown convincingly on a movie screen.
Chen keeps the action charging forward breathlessly, for more than two and a half hours, and at a certain point you begin to realize that the obvious theatre-versus-life ironies are only a small part of what the movie is about.
It sounds like a scene from a horror movie -- but is in fact what passengers say happened on a Greyhound bus journey from Atlantic City to New York on Friday.
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For anyone curious about what to do this weekend, Slate magazine online offers a weekly digest of what critics are saying about new movie releases.
Everyone involved in a movie is hoping that what they make will be entertaining.
What follows is a guest review of the movie Cloud Atlas by my friend and movie reviewer, John Shade Vick.
According to the company, the scanner's equally adept at creating a detailed 3D model of a crime scene as it is of a movie set and, what's more, it can be done in only two minutes.
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