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" Maslin praised Oldman and Harris, writing, " Jackie Flannery is played by the phenomenal Gary Oldman, who since Sid and Nancy has taken on a string of new accents and dramatic identities with stunning ease ", and " Jackie's icy older brother ... is played by Ed Harris with an eeriness to match Mr. Oldman's.
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In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised, " Mr. Campbell's manly, mock-heroic posturing is perfectly in keeping with the director's droll outlook ".
Referring to his 1991 film releases, The New York Times ’ critic, Janet Maslin, praised Reeves ’ versatility, saying that he “ displays considerable discipline and range.
Janet Maslin praised Bridges ' performance in her review for The New York Times: " Mr. Bridges finds a role so right for him that he seems never to have been anywhere else.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that film was " the best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while ", and praised Eastwood's directing and the way he intricately juxtaposes the old West and the new.
New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing " the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch.
" Janet Maslin of the New York Times found the movie lacking in momentum, but praised its " quiet gravity.
His performance, described by Janet Maslin in The New York Times as " desperately moving ", was widely praised, though Downey has said that for him " the role was like the ghost of Christmas Future " since his drug habit resulted in his becoming an " exaggeration of the character " in real life.
Janet Maslin from The New York Times praised Anthony Hopkins ' performance and " his character's embattled outlook and stiff, hunched body language with amazing skill ".
" New York Times critic Janet Maslin praised the performances but said that " it drifts gradually toward climactic events that seem convenient and contrived.
Janet Maslin of the New York Times praised the film whose " real heart is its devastating idea of a morning after: the moment when, after being in the grip of a political delusion lasting several decades, a man can emerge from a subterranean hiding place in his native Yugoslavia and be told that there is no Yugoslavia any more ".
Janet Maslin from The New York Times praised Lucas ' storytelling, but was critical of Ron Howard's direction.
" In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Reeves ' performance: " A lot of the snap comes, surprisingly, from Mr. Reeves, who displays considerable discipline and range.
Janet Maslin of the New York Times called it " a lazy but amiable comedy " and praised Murray for achieving " a sardonically exaggerated calm that can be very entertaining ".
New York Times film critic Janet Maslin praised DiCaprio's performance, writing " the film's real show-stopping turn comes from Mr. DiCaprio, who makes Arnie's many tics so startling and vivid that at first he is difficult to watch ....
Janet Maslin, in her review for The New York Times, praised the " quietly commanding Larry Fishburne and the wry Jeff Goldblum, who make an interestingly offbeat team ".
Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised Stone's performance and Raimi's directing.
In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Ang Li as " a warmly engaging storyteller.
Writing in the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Ferrara's talent for making " gleefully down-and-dirty films ", continuing, " He has come up with his own brand of supersleaze, in a film that would seem outrageously, unforgivably lurid if it were not also somehow perfectly sincere.
In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised the performances of Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett: " Mr. Fiennes gleefully captures Lenny's sleaziness while also showing there is something about this schlockmeister that is worth saving, despite much evidence to the contrary.
" Maslin praised the essay " My Father's Brain " as " a tough, haunting account.
In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Kevin Reynolds ' " way with the sight gags and off-the-wall humor that make this a notable debut.
Janet Maslin from New York Times praised Wesley Snipes for his " funny, knowing performance with a lot of physical verve ".
" Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised the casting of Barton and Rockwell " it also shows off a poised young actress and a leading man with charisma to burn.
In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised Hauer's performance: " Mr. Hauer's terrorist, in particular, is a sharply drawn character who acts as a driving force within the movie's scheme.
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The film received a mixed reception, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times writing, " his direction is galvanized by a sense of second chances and tragic misunderstandings, and by contrasting a larger sense of justice with the peculiar minutiae of crime.
Janet Maslin, writing for the New York Times, felt that much of the film was absurd but that Jon Voight's performance was excellent, and she credits the film for " crude energy and bravado ".
In 1995 there was a made-for-TV film, which was generally well-received, with critics like the New York Times ' Janet Maslin writing that this screen version " gets it exactly right.
Janet Maslin, writing for The New York Times, was impressed with Lou Diamond Phillips ' performance, and wrote, " A film like this is quite naturally a showcase for its star, and as Valens, Lou Diamond Phillips has a sweetness and sincerity that in no way diminish the toughness of his onstage persona.
Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, was broadly praising of the film, saying she thought that Never Say Never Again " has noticeably more humor and character than the Bond films usually provide.
Janet Maslin from The New York Times agreed, writing that Coppola, known for his dark approach on his previous films, " found the directorial range to actually make a feel-good movie.
" Janet Maslin, writing for The New York Times, finds that " The film's synthesis of fact and fiction is gracefully achieved ," and expressed hope that after the screening of Lamerica at the 1995 New York Film Festival, Amelio would " emerge ... much more widely known.
Critic Janet Maslin spoke well of the actors, writing,
Janet Maslin of the New York Times characterized the film as " perhaps the first eviction thriller ," writing that it " taps into a previously unexplored subject, the source of so much excitement and so many conversational gambits within young urban professional circles.
In The New York Times, Janet Maslin also lauded the film, writing, " Mr. Tamahori, who gives Mulholland Falls a smashing, insidious L. A .- noir style meant to recall Chinatown, along with a high-testosterone swagger that is distinctively his own.
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Janet Maslin of The New York Times said: " Generations is predictably flabby and impenetrable in places, but it has enough pomp, spectacle and high-tech small talk to keep the franchise afloat.
" The New York Times ' Janet Maslin wrote, " The Professional is much too sentimental to sound shockingly amoral in the least.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote negatively of the film and stated that the beginning of the movie " is the only part of the film that is remotely engaging.
In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin said, " The only sneaky scheme at work here is the one that inflates a hollow plot to fill 2¼ hours while banishing skepticism with endless close-ups of big, beautiful movie-star eyes.
In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin said the film " is every bit as magical as the trick around which it revolves.
The dialogue and banter was considered a positive and defining aspect of the film ; Janet Maslin of The New York Times said that " Star Trek VI is definitely colorful, but even more of its color comes from conversation, which can take some amusingly florid turns.
In an October 17, 1980, review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin noted " the film's cleverness is aggressive and cool ," but concluded that although " the gamesmanship of The Stunt Man is fast and furious ... gamesmanship is almost all it manages to be ".
" Critics also noted its generally asexual treatment of homosexuality: Janet Maslin commented in the New York Times that the film is not one " to associate gayness with actual sex ," while TV Guide quipped that it " finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store.
In her review for New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " Restoration crams in more research and period detail than it can comfortably digest, but its story is not overwhelmed by such overkill ".
In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " Genuine fairy tales are rare ; so is film-making that is thoroughly original in an unobtrusive way.
In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, " Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight ".
Although Janet Maslin of The New York Times criticized the film's animation, she later went on to say that the film is a " fond tribute to Looney Tunes characters ' past.
Janet Maslin, in The New York Times, wrote " The worst of it is painless ; the best is funny, sly, cheerful and, here and there, even genuinely inspired ", while Roger Ebert called it " truly dreadful ".
Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote, " True Romance, a vibrant, grisly, gleefully amoral road movie directed by Tony Scott and dominated by the machismo of Quentin Tarantino ( who wrote this screenplay before he directed Reservoir Dogs ), is sure to offend a good-sized segment of the moviegoing population.
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