Like "The Crying Game," it is a smart, well-made movie that would not have been nearly as popular without its celebrity trick.
The Bourne Supremacy is an exciting and well-made movie, and contains one of the best car chase scenes ever committed to film.
"Lost" is one of the few television dramas filmed mostly on location, and the additional cost pays off because it looks like a well-made movie.
But if people walk away and say 'that was a well-made movie,' then I'm happy.
I always feel that he's after some abstract arty-farty ideal, whereas I simply like well-made movies with a heart.
Richard Schickel in Time magazine called it "an extraordinarily well-made movie, which wastes no words or images in telling a conventional but compelling story."
The Los Angeles Times called the film an "instant classic", proclaiming it as "probably the grisliest well-made movie ever."
Roger Ebert generally liked the film, giving it three out of four stars and characterizing it as a "well-made movie.
The Book of Eli was a very engrossing and well-made movie.
The British-American production was widely acknowledged as a well-made, well-acted movie.