Subject: Reviews/Criticism

Reviews/Criticism:

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


He never failed to seek a peaceful solution of a problem when all other possibilities had failed.

(1899 – 1970) British Jewish historian
Reviews/Criticism

Logic and drama are what get purged here.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

… the most terrifying thing about The X-Files, in fact, are its “fans.” These guys make movie critics look healthy.

British film critic & writer
Reviews/Criticism

Carman's First Law of Television: The third-rated network always has the best shows, because in its desperation it begins to take chances.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock; after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20.

American choral conductor, director, teacher & radio host
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism Time

You know those movies that look like they’re going to be really insipid and then completely surprise you? 17 Again isn’t one of those.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

It's not music, it's a disease.

(1911 – 2010) American bandleader
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

Blamelessness runs riot though the six hundred pages.

(1937 – ) British historian
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While it’s almost certainly the movie event of the year for filmgoers passionate about deer urine humor, Grown Ups 2 will bore, annoy, and disgust audiences of nearly every other persuasion.

(movie reviews at rottentomatoes.com)
Reviews/Criticism

The Good, The Bad and the Elderly

musician & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny… yet no French sex comedies are funny.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons
Entertainment Film Places Reviews/Criticism

There’s saccharine writing and then there’s writing that, if you could liquefy it and inject it into the five-year-olds watching this thing, would launch them into space. This is the latter.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

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
Acting Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

Can’t act. Slightly bald. Also dances.

Reviews/Criticism

Kim Kardashian is saddled with a huge arse… but enough about Kanye West.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
People Reviews/Criticism

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

film critic
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Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

(1928 – ) Canadian stage magician, skeptic & opponent of pseudoscience
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More people are killed in this movie than will ever see it.

American writer & columnist
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This book fills a much-needed gap.

(1900 – 1986) American teacher & translator
Books Reviews/Criticism

Nowadays Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.

(1946 – ) British journalist & broadcaster
Acting Reviews/Criticism

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

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism