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- Roger Ebert awarded three stars, particularly admiring Stewart and the cast’s ability to make the story real and touching; no rating scale is spoken. — Bill Simmons
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- The episode calls this the first one-star review covered after roughly 275 episodes. — Bill Simmons
- Ebert is reported to have said the returning director savaged his own masterpiece as thoroughly as a hired hack. — Bill Simmons
- His review is summarized as asking whether Americans were assumed to need a more elementary version than Europeans. — Bill Simmons
- The quoted conclusion calls the original a masterpiece and the remake laughable, stupid, and crude. — Bill Simmons
- The panel feels personally stung because both participants love the remake. — Chris Ryan
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- Ebert’s respect for David Gordon Green helps the panel frame the film as unusually well shot and staged for its material.
- The car chase’s failed windshield kick is a carefully framed action gag that subverts a familiar trope.
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- The critic rating is four stars; the scale denominator is not stated. — Bill Simmons
- The review compares the ensemble with Nashville and The Player and comedy/violence balance with Pulp Fiction, praising human qualities and an always-alive feeling. — Bill Simmons
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- The stated score is three and a half stars. — Bill Simmons
- The quoted review praises the intelligence and skill with which the movie reaches familiar coming-of-age and prep-school conclusions. — Bill Simmons
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- The lack of women is acknowledged as a real feature, with screenplay material about Daniel’s impotence helping explain his separation from ordinary society. — Bill Simmons
- Peter Travers’s decade-best praise and bet on PTA are cited as a contemporary judgment that aged better. — Bill Simmons
- PTA’s slow camera movement, landscape construction, fresh lumber, and non-linear use of locations make viewers physically follow the image.
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- Stallone claimed 2.6 percent body fat, a 155-pound weight, ten egg whites and toast, fruit every third day, and several kinds of daily training. — Bill Simmons
- Three Rocky statues were made, and Philadelphia officials moved one away from the museum steps after deciding it was a movie prop rather than art. — Bill Simmons
- Mr. T claimed his mother walked out of the movie after criticizing the way Clubber spoke to Adrian. — Bill Simmons
- Stallone told Roger Ebert in 1979 that a possible third film would stage a Coliseum fight and might end with Rocky’s death. — Bill Simmons
- The movie’s exterior house is reported to have belonged to the boxer in Chicago. — Bill Simmons
- The film uses an unreleased demo of Eye of the Tiger rather than the later commercial version. — Bill Simmons
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- Roger Ebert gave the film one star, calling Murphy a loud, arrogant bore and objecting to the assumption that he is funny by definition while anyone in his way is a fool. — Bill Simmons
- One star is considered too harsh; two stars would have seemed reasonable. — Bill Simmons
- Ebert may have been fed up with such comedies at the time, having criticized Spies Like Us on television, much as critics now tire of Marvel movies. — Chris Ryan
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- Roger Ebert gave the film three stars, calling it a funny movie that gets funnier the more familiar viewers are with James Bond movies, the Bond clones and other 1960s films. — Chris Ryan
- The rating is a surprise given Ebert's attention to plot; the explanation offered is the film's overt Beyond the Valley of the Dolls references, a film Ebert co-wrote. — Bill Simmons
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- Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars, likening it to a Superman whose Clark Kent is more charismatic than the Man of Steel. — Van Lathan
- Asked whether the tepid review exposed weaknesses on rewatch, the reply is the opposite: the film is loved even more. — Van Lathan
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- Ebert awarded the film four stars. — Bill Simmons
- The quoted review calls the movie smart and funny. — Bill Simmons
- The quoted review says Hollywood functions as a metaphor for 1980s avarice. — Bill Simmons
- The quoted review calls it the movie The Bonfire of the Vanities wanted to be. — Bill Simmons
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- Roger Ebert gave four stars, praising the film as flawlessly crafted and spellbinding; the host agrees. — Bill Simmons
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