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Board President, Jacob Burns Film Center. Longtime NYT critic. I’m @realjanetmaslin on Threads.
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JAWS @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story Reviews

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By Steven Spielberg, Janet Maslin, Cameron Crowe, Greg Nicotero
| Metacritic
If you're a Jaws junkie, you'll be sucked in by the fascinating minutiae, such as Spielberg talking about how he chose the size of his great white monster (he was actually offered the chance to make it bigger!), but this is more than a retelling of how a mechanical monster kept breaking down. Spielberg calls Jaws a movie about people, and so is Jaws @ 50, because it treats those people as being equal to the director himself. Read More
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Why Ron Howard's ‘Nice' Reputation Is So Fitting (Guest Column)

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By Janet Maslin
| MSN Singapore Verified
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Why Ron Howard's 'Nice' Reputation Is So Fitting (Guest Column) Original

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By Janet Maslin
| Variety Verified
Ron Howard has been part of our collective consciousness for as long as I can remember. Or at least he looms large in mine. Born in 1954, he was on many of the TV series I grew up watching and had his own starring role on "The Andy Griffith Show" by 1960. And his father had the idea that little "Ronny Howard" should play a good kid, not the wise-guy type popular in those "Dennis the Menace" years. He'd be nice. It stuck. He's been known as "nice" ever since. That made him much too easy to dismiss.
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