Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozens of religious experts and clergy for repeated discussions about the film. And Katzenberg did his homework, reading up so extensively on the Bible that he began to sound more like a yeshiva student than the college dropout he is. But as Katzenberg discovered, everyone's a movie critic. An elderly Fundamentalist minister didn't like the drawings; a rabbinical scholar complained that in the Bible "God has a great line" that wasn't in the film, and also objected to the fact that Moses, who should be around 80 when he returns to confront Rameses, looks too young...
...takes a shower. And then, 44 minutes in, the movie goes a little mad. Exit leading lady, in a whirlpool of blood. New characters appear, are slaughtered or imperiled. What the hell is going on here? Audiences knew (it was one of Hitchcock's most profitable films), but the critics were annoyed, dismissive. It took a while for them to come around. In 1973 one critic (this one) chose Psycho as his all-time favorite film...
Those of us who love Woody Allen fall into two camps: those who love Woody the auteur and those who love Woody the stuttering pasty human. As a fanatic member of the latter squadron this film critic acknowledges that what she finds to be the biggest flaw of Celebrity may instead be read by some filmgoers as an overdue relief: dear Woody is nowhere to be seen...
...buried some of his closest friends and saw others deteriorate to the point where even protease inhibitors could not save them from incipient death. Friendship and other personal sagas, however, are only one part of his tale. As a contributing editor to The New York Times Magazine and vociferous critic of conservatism, Sullivan has never avoided polemics. And so, throughout all of the essays in the book, he intermingles personal throughts with political ones on the subjects of AIDS and homosexuality...
Within that context, Levittown became the anti-Williamsburg: Not a re-creation of some idealized past but a living glimpse of the ticky-tacky future. The social critic Lewis Mumford called it "a low-grade uniform environment from which escape is impossible." Levittown was also tainted at birth by the offhand racism of midcentury America. Though Levittown is racially mixed today, for years Levitt's sales contracts barred resale to African Americans. He once offered to build a separate development for blacks but refused to integrate his white Levitt developments. "We can solve a housing problem...