Subject: Reviews/Criticism

Reviews/Criticism:

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


Whew! That was close: something almost happened there for a minute.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Progressing from nowhere to nothing and leaving only a greasy taste in the mouth as a reward.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

I've seen audits that were more thrilling.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
Reviews/Criticism

George Moore wrote excellent English until he discovered grammar.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Communication Language Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Caligula is sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash. If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
Reviews/Criticism

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman
Music Reviews/Criticism

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

(1916 – 1986) American poet, translator & etymologist
Reviews/Criticism

There isn't enough Visine in the world!

musician & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Only someone so smart could make a movie this stupid.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Real-life military trainers – regardless of gender – never make you say, ‘Wow you’re hot!’ They make you say, ‘I’ll do whatever you want, please don’t hurt me.’

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine ‘love.’ Coca Cola ads do much the same thing — and they don't take two hours.

(1951 – ) British journalist & author
Reviews/Criticism

Like all self-made men he worships his creator.

Insults Reviews/Criticism

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Acting Reviews/Criticism

We did not conceive it possible that even Mr. Lincoln would produce a paper so slipshod, so loose-joined, so puerile, not alone in literary construction, but in its ideas, its sentiments, its grasp.

Reviews/Criticism Speech

Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Reviews/Criticism Wordplay

If I were married to her, I’d be sure to have dinner ready when she got home.

(1920 – ) U.S. Secretary of State economist, statesman & businessman
People Reviews/Criticism

Let’s see, Ben Affleck is stuck with Sandra Bullock in a small vehicle, and they’re driving all the way to Georgia. Is he going to fall in love with her even though they’re complete opposites? Holy shit, I think so.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

Imagine a terrible TV sitcom stretched, horribly and inexplicably, to 90 minutes, and you’ve got the general idea of The Big Wedding.

movie critic
Reviews/Criticism

He writes his plays for the ages – the ages between five and twelve.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor
Insults Reviews/Criticism

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer.

(1819 – 1900) English art critic, social thinker, poet & artist
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism