Subject: Reviews/Criticism

Reviews/Criticism:

Biting reviews and criticism of film, theater, television, music, books etc.


It’s obvious that nobody believed in this project longer than it took for the check to clear.

writer, editor & film reviewer

I thought I heard one of the original lines of the show.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

This feature makes Three Stooges Meet Hercules look like a visionary satire.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist

I would accuse American Reunion of being misogynistic, but the movie seems to hold all of humanity in contempt, not just women.

film critic

Not to be missed — but to have stones thrown at it from point blank range.

(1926 – 2009) Irish dramatist, television writer & essayist

Stop for a moment and ponder just how stupid it is to blow the ending of your movie in the title.

writer, editor & film reviewer

The epitome of ‘blah.’

American movie critic

It's like watching the travel video of the most annoying guy you know.

film reviewer

It would kill a cat and turn rocks into scrambled eggs.

(1913 – 1975) American actor

Blamelessness runs riot though the six hundred pages.

(1937 – ) British historian

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

(1902 – 1963) Danish actor

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

(1891 – 1951) comedian, singer, theater & film actress

Their idea of a minority is, in all seriousness, a British dude painted orange.

film reviewer

I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

writer, editor & film reviewer

Affleck probably got the part of the blind superhero because he was the only actor too inebriated to duck when the producers flung objects at his head.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)

In his bodybuilding days Arnold Schwarzenegger was known as the Austrian Oak; then he started acting and was know as… the Austrian Oak.

(1961 – ) English standup comedian, actor & writer

It’s boring.

film critic

Director Ted Demme is a moron, and here’s why.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)

Earthquake epic 10.5 presents a choice: Either run screaming or pass the beer and savor a camp classic… it is so phenomenally bad it borders on spoofed genius.

American television critic

When you’ve seen all of Ionesco’s plays… you’ve seen one of them.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

Chozen is a truly bizarre blend of programming as it mixes prison and rap culture with Revenge of the Nerds.

film reviewer