Word: instanteously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lopez and Clooney infuse these cardboard cutouts, this flighty girl and this incidental robber, with so much life that their instant attraction seems not only believable but inevitable is nearly miraculous. Stop and think about the plot an hour after the movie and it doesn't seem too impressive, but you'll never question it as the film is rolling. The chemistry between the two is astonishing. Each is perfectly capable of controlling a scene alone as well, thank you very much. Lesser-known Lopez is incredibly appealing--she might play a lousy employee, but she plays a great human...
...Hassle Instant Prints...
High Art doesn't have the humor or the steely self-assurance of Bound, a razor-sharp thriller/campfest that acknowledged the clichéd phoniness of shorthanding a woman's skill with bathroom pipes as an instant flag of lesbian sexuality. High Art, by contrast, scores aces for slinky atmosphere but overdoes the seriousness, offering a somber, compellingly seedy, but occasionally lethargic story where the sexual roundabouts that "shock" its various characters are rarely if ever shocking to us. By the time Lucy's saddled with a cartoonish Jewish mother, Cholodenko seems as starved for inspiration as Great and Lucy...
...adjective advisedly. Unrelenting astonishment is what I clearly recall feeling, as a teenager myself back in the winter of 1964, when "Beatlemania," an obscure hysteria that had erupted in Britain the year before, suddenly jumped the Atlantic and took instant root here. First, in January, came the spine-tingling arrival of I Want to Hold Your Hand--a great, convulsive rock-'n'-roll record that, to the bafflement of many a teen garage band across the land, actually had more than three chords (five more, to be exact--incredible). Then one week later, She Loves You careened onto the charts...
...through her talk show that her influence has been greatest. When Winfrey talks, her viewers--an estimated 14 million daily in the U.S. and millions more in 132 other countries--listen. Any book she chooses for her on-air book club becomes an instant best seller. When she established the "world's largest piggy bank," people all over the country contributed spare change to raise more than $1 million (matched by Oprah) to send disadvantaged kids to college. When she blurted that hearing about the threat of mad-cow disease "just stopped me cold from eating another burger!", the perceived...