ROGER EBERTS GREAT MOVIES
“Sunset Blvd. remains the best drama ever made about the movies because it sees through the illusions, even if [main character] Norma doesn’t. When the silent star first greets the penniless writer [William Holden] inside her mansion, they have a classic exchange. You used to be big he says. Norma responds with the great line, I am big. It’s the pictures that got small. Hardly anyone remembers Joe’s next line: I knew there was something wrong with them. (Roger Ebert)