Wesley Morris

and what your favorite movies are.

He makes your favorites.

That man has made your favorite movie.

He's made one of your favorite movies, and everybody's got one.

He's made two of my favorite movies, and like, you know, When Harry Met Sally.

I mean, come on.

There's a couple things with Rob Reiner that makes this outpouring of grief over his death important.

His peak as a director was at a time when the movies were interested in just simple things.

brought to life by a good script and a couple of stars.

These are not values the movies have anymore.

These are bygone aspects of American moviemaking.

And he embodied, he was one of the principal embodiments, his movies were, of that era.

For me, When Harry Met Sally was great because it had these two people that I kind of knew, Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal.

Rob Reiner made them movie stars.

This movie made them movie stars.

It's kind of hard to imagine that they weren't movie stars before that, but somehow.

Yeah, you'd seen them in things before.

And, you know, Billy Crystal was a well-known comic, and Meg Ryan was somebody who'd been in other movies as, like, a supporting character before.

And you also had in Harry Met Sally this great script by Nura Efron.

Nora Ephron, William Goldman, Aaron Sorkin, they wrote the great Rob Reiner movies.