Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.

It is a piercing film. And that's the Critic's Corner for this morning.

Her books were put down by most critics but readers would not put down her books.

Just watching them wrestle . . . they have that aura about them. They've been there, they know what is going on and they know how to take charge. They will be tough for any of us to defeat.

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!