Janet Maslin Quotations

[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

The cliché of the 'Eureka!' moment easily obscures the doubt and uncertainty that are also part of the discovery process.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Gonzo . . . acidic hilarity . . . 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star.

She is lawyer enough to have changed all but one name (her husband's) in the part of the book devoted to criminal abandon.

I think they're silly in a way that's absolutely undemanding,

Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

It was apples and oranges. We wanted to give both films a leg up.