To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets. β¨ Roger Ebert (2005). Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006, p.734, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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- One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments. β¨ Roger Ebert (2016). The Great Movies IV, p.81, Univ β¦ βΆ
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