Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.
Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
A film is a terrible thing to waste.
It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.