"Thor," in fact, is the year's most divided movie to date; everything that happens in the higher realms, vaguely derived from Nordic legend, is posturing nonsense, whereas the scenes down here are managed, for the most part, with dexterity and wit.
Perhaps because dividing movies into the only categories that really matter -- "good" and "bad" -- seems both overly facile and intellectually overwhelming, we devise more elaborate, more knowing ways of sorting them out.
Reed Hastings was soaking in a hot tub with a friend last month when he shared a secret: his company, Netflix, was about to announce a plan to divide its movie rental service into two onene offering streaming movies over the Internet, the other offering old-fashioned DVDs in the mail.
Madden and the screenwriter Ol Parker, working from a novel by Deborah Moggach, divide the movie into subplots.
Though the six sections flow together more or less seamlessly, it is also possible to divide the movie into Wachowski and Tykwer halves.
This wasn't the first assassination by a Times critic of a NYFF film; here's Vincent Canby, on Jean-Luc Godard's "Nouvelle Vague," when it was shown at the festival in 1990: Mr. Godard's passion for Cinema now seems perfunctory, as do his tracking shots, his use of pretty actresses (often seen reading books) and the chapter headings (in French, Italian, English and German) that divide the movie.
They communicate mostly by shouting through the walls – that's one way for romance to blossom, I suppose – and her deeply troubled psyche makes up for the increasing implausibility of these kind of love-across-the-age-divide movie relationships.
Soon they were divided in movie theatres, swimming pools, and parks.
Although critics were divided, the movie became a worldwide hit at the box office.
"Avatar" has generally won rave reviews, but too many critics have been dividing the movie into the 3-D experience and the plot as if they were unrelated.
