I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.

To call "A Lot like Love" dead in the water is an insult to water.

My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.