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Kenneth Turan Biography

Film critic

Kenneth Turan is a renowned film critic, born on October 27, 1946. He is highly respected in the film criticism community for his insightful and thought-provoking reviews.

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“A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.”

Directors Treats Classic Fascinating Mold

Author:Kenneth Turan

“Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie.”

Looks Audience Rich Television Definitions Versions Traditional Cinematic High Definition

Author:Kenneth Turan

“"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.”

Persons Film Joy Stars Feet Miracle Entrepreneur Backgrounds Selling Excellent Shopping Sane Inventor Jennifer Dysfunctional Family Depiction Mega

Author:Kenneth Turan

“Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.”

Way Joy Products Connections Sells Get Better Convince Executives

Author:Kenneth Turan

“Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.”

Ifs Games Sports Baseball Sells Endure Affair Delight Nuance Contemplative Brazen Understated

Author:Kenneth Turan

“What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.”

Thinking Violence Bones Realization Significance Infantile

Author:Kenneth Turan

“What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality.”

Ends Romance Audience Wise Hollywood Copies Originality Derivatives Old Hollywood

Author:Kenneth Turan

“Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.”

Action Death Player Supposed To Be Shock Capricious Equalizer Unconcerned

Author:Kenneth Turan

“Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.”

World Values Left Sound Silence Regret Difficulty Absence Destination Silence Is Chaotic

Author:Kenneth Turan

About the Author

Born: October 27, 1946
Known for: Film critic
Quotes: 9

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