“… Newman turns Hud into a tarnished golden boy, cruel yet irresistible to watch.”

“Lon Chaney’s Quasimodo is one of early cinema’s most forlorn and tragic movie monsters, on par with King Kong and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s creation.

“…as discomfiting as you’ve heard, yet there is one moment near the end that nearly saves it.

"Moments of real trauma are interrupted with sitcom wackiness, all of it connected by a terribly hokey musical score."

"…one of the most wrenching war films I’ve seen."

“More effective as a piece of house porn than cinematic drama…

"It’s all rather dull if you don’t have laundry to fold while watching."

"…reveals what Robert De Niro and Al Pacino truly have in common: Neither can say no to a crappy script."

"These women haven’t only been declawed, they’ve been spayed and neutered."

"Alan Ball’s obsession with the sexuality of teenage girls continues with Towelhead, and you don’t have to be a prude to be alarmed by it."