What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation. - Pauline Kael

...When the bespangled Miss Charisse wraps her phenomenal legs around [Fred] Astaire, she can be forgiven everything — even the fact that she reads her lines as if she learned them phonetically.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

The craftsmanship that Hollywood has always used as a selling point not only doesn’t have much to do with art — the expressive use of techniques — it probably doesn’t have very much to do with actual box-office appeal, either.