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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
It reclaims ownership of time by dividing the movie's plot -- a lifelong love story and athletic rivalry between a boy and a girl -- into four quarters, using superimposed titles to announce the start of each one.
Tarantino's new movie, "The Hateful Eight," is a modern film dressed in classic garb — indeed, in the long-dormant format of the roadshow movie, with its orchestral overture ushering viewers to their seats and its three-plus-hour running time, punctuated by an intermission, which divides the movie into two parts.
