Five or six real masterpieces".
"Citizen Kane" is a popular masterpiece — not in terms of actual popularity but in terms of its conceptions and the way it gets its laughs and makes its points.
Joanne Heffernan, a rival clique's queen bee – dealing out casual humiliation even to her acolytes and claiming virtual, if not actual, droit du seigneur over any boy she fancies – is an absolute masterpiece of vulnerable cruelty.
These "shot-on-video" (SOV) horror movies are like a fever dream glimpse into parallel worlds, made by people who thought they were making a masterpiece, but don't seem to have ever seen an actual film before.
It makes any actual music seem an impertinence, an unnatural and unneeded accompaniment to the geological masterpiece that is Assynt.
Over and over, what Weiner wants to convey is that this is a masterpiece that's been fussed over so obsessively it barely requires actual viewers to complete its journey into the kingdom of great art.
Whether spurred by an admiration for British wartime courage, or by a Time cover story titled "Masterpiece," or by a creeping rumor that the film mixed familiar duty with actual pleasure, they turned "Henry V" into a box-office phenomenon.
Scaramucci spends a few pages discussing the "f-bomb masterpiece," which he believes belongs in a museum and although he didn't print the actual email, his recounting made me laugh out loud.
James's masterpieces are among the greatest electronic music ever made (and in the case of Windowlicker the actual greatest) – works of staggering expressionist beauty full of love, sex and violence.
One is John Keegan's masterpiece The Face of Battle, an astounding work about the ordinary soldier's experience of war, dwelling on the actual physical detail of what battle was like down the centuries.
