Sublime

Why is all the attention going toward the De Niro charm as a displaced country boy who is out of his depth, unless the authors are obsessed by Industry staples?

Sympathetic means likable.

benighted

I could make the same kind of list for every art. A film critic who reviews a new Robert Altman picture without having seen Altman’s earlier films isn’t much help to the serious moviegoer. A music critic should know not only his Bach and Palestrina, his Mozart and Beethoven, but his Schoenberg and Ives and Philip Glass—the theoreticians and maveric

Zemeckis and Gale have mastered the first rule of filmmaking: match the style to the substance.

the unreasoning conviction that anything that educates us can't be pleasurable probably accounts for much of the rest.

"I'm out to follow an argument, not seduce people."'