The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film) writing that the generally poor reception for the film was "a sad fate for a surprisingly sincere tribute to Robert Wise's 1951 classic." Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" 'congratulated' Keanu Reeves's performance and wrote in his review that "This contemporary remake of the science-fiction classic knew what it was doing when it cast Keanu Reeves, the movies' greatest stone face since Buster Keaton." A. O. Scott of "The New York Times" was not impressed with Reeves' performance, commenting that "even Klaatu looks bored and distracted, much as he did back when we knew him as Neo." William Arnold
Ego Is the Enemy In the weeks after its release, the book was listed by "Inc." as one of the must-read business books that summer. The book went on to achieve bestseller status lists by "USA Today", "Chicago Tribune", and "Publishers Weekly". Ego Is the Enemy Ego Is the Enemy is the fourth book by author Ryan Holiday, published on June 14, 2016. It is about the treacherous nature of ego. Having previously written about external obstacles in his book "The Obstacle Is the Way", Holiday sought to answer questions about what to do when the biggest obstacle is internal. In the prologue of