Of all the arts, movies are the most powerful aid to empathy, and good ones make us into better people.

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

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.

Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

We spend too much time hiding illness.