Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided. - Pauline Kael

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I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.

Pauline Kael

Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.

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Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

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If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

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Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

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