Critic Quotes Quiz re: Oscar Nominations
Q.1 "In many ways it's the best horror film I've ever seen. At the same time, it's hard to recommend; I believe I will be struggling to forget this film as long as I live. I doubt I'll succeed."
A) Zero Dark Thirty
B) Beasts of the Southern Wild
C) Amour
D) The Master
Q.2 "I felt like I'd been invited to a seven-course dinner, and all seven turned out to be cake -- and then the host insisted on delivering a lecture about how cake would bring me closer to God."
A) Les Miserables
B)Life of Pi
C) Skyfall
D) Silver Linings Playbook
Q.3 "It's so hypnotically beautiful that people will be using it to calibrate their new TV monitors."
A) Beasts of the Southern Wild
B) Moonrise Kingdom
C) Les Miserables
D) Life of Pi
Q.4 "Certain movies are sprinkled with pixie dust, an indescribable concoction that infuses scenes with irresistible magic; _________is practically hand-rolled and deep-fried in the stuff."
A) Life of Pi
B) Anna Karenina
C) Silver Linings Playbook
D) Lincoln
Q.5 "After 2 1/2 hours, the movie's become a bowl of trail mix -- you're picking out the nuts you don't like and hoping the next bite doesn't contain any craisins. "
A) Django Unchained
B) Anna Karenina
C) Lincoln
D) Les Miserables
Q.6 "A powerful, morally complicated work on an urgent subject. It is a film that deserves -- that almost demands -- to be seen and argued over."
A) The Master
B) Argo
C) Zero Dark Thirty
D) Flight
Q.7 "A movie that can't be dismissed because there is too much in it but can't be embraced because it's all spread too thin."
A) Django Unchained
B) Les Miserables
C) Lincoln
D) Life of Pi
Q.8 "If you didn't know otherwise, you'd swear this was the work of a veteran master like Steven Soderbergh."
A) Beasts of the Southern Wild
B) Argo
C) Flight
D) The Master
Q.9 "It starts to fray about halfway through as it shifts into a more conventional mode, taking on the usual trappings of the genre and making its way to a predictable resolution."
A) Argo
B) Silver Linings Playbook
C) The Master
D) Sky Fall
Q.10 "It's serious and substantive, an ingeniously written and executed drama fashioned from a fascinating, little-known chapter of recent history."
A) The Master
B) Argo
C) Lincoln
D) Zero Dark Thirty
Want to see how you did?
ANSWERS:1.C 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.D 6.C 7.D 8. B 9. B 10. D
Q.1 "In many ways it's the best horror film I've ever seen. At the same time, it's hard to recommend; I believe I will be struggling to forget this film as long as I live. I doubt I'll succeed."
A) Zero Dark Thirty
B) Beasts of the Southern Wild
C) Amour
D) The Master
Q.2 "I felt like I'd been invited to a seven-course dinner, and all seven turned out to be cake -- and then the host insisted on delivering a lecture about how cake would bring me closer to God."
A) Les Miserables
B)Life of Pi
C) Skyfall
D) Silver Linings Playbook
Q.3 "It's so hypnotically beautiful that people will be using it to calibrate their new TV monitors."
A) Beasts of the Southern Wild
B) Moonrise Kingdom
C) Les Miserables
D) Life of Pi
Q.4 "Certain movies are sprinkled with pixie dust, an indescribable concoction that infuses scenes with irresistible magic; _________is practically hand-rolled and deep-fried in the stuff."
A) Life of Pi
B) Anna Karenina
C) Silver Linings Playbook
D) Lincoln
Q.5 "After 2 1/2 hours, the movie's become a bowl of trail mix -- you're picking out the nuts you don't like and hoping the next bite doesn't contain any craisins. "
A) Django Unchained
B) Anna Karenina
C) Lincoln
D) Les Miserables
Q.6 "A powerful, morally complicated work on an urgent subject. It is a film that deserves -- that almost demands -- to be seen and argued over."
A) The Master
B) Argo
C) Zero Dark Thirty
D) Flight
Q.7 "A movie that can't be dismissed because there is too much in it but can't be embraced because it's all spread too thin."
A) Django Unchained
B) Les Miserables
C) Lincoln
D) Life of Pi
Q.8 "If you didn't know otherwise, you'd swear this was the work of a veteran master like Steven Soderbergh."
A) Beasts of the Southern Wild
B) Argo
C) Flight
D) The Master
Q.9 "It starts to fray about halfway through as it shifts into a more conventional mode, taking on the usual trappings of the genre and making its way to a predictable resolution."
A) Argo
B) Silver Linings Playbook
C) The Master
D) Sky Fall
Q.10 "It's serious and substantive, an ingeniously written and executed drama fashioned from a fascinating, little-known chapter of recent history."
A) The Master
B) Argo
C) Lincoln
D) Zero Dark Thirty
Want to see how you did?
ANSWERS:1.C 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.D 6.C 7.D 8. B 9. B 10. D
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