Star Wars is a junkyard of cinematic gimcracks not unlike the Jawas» heap of purloined, discarded, barely functioning droids. (rottentomatoes.com)
Peter and Paul in Fall River, Massachusetts» would revolutionize Catholic architecture in America, then dominated by cheap catalogue - bought plaster saints and gimcrack Victoriana. (firstthings.com)
The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw handed Anderson's film a five - star review at Venice, calling it «an arresting and utterly absorbing psychological drama of marginal lives, an emotional history of charlatanism and gimcrack philosophy, a world of snakeoil truth salesmen offering self - medication of the spirit, all set in a postwar America realised with superb flair and confidence, utterly without cliche». (theguardian.com)