Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 10)

If Planes were a reasonably priced download, you'd gladly use it to sedate your kids during a long car ride.

journalist & film critic

It defines boredom by mostly being boring about it.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist

… this just dares you to stay awake.

film reviewer

Even a 14-year-old — maybe especially a 14-year-old — knows lameness when he sees it.

American television critic

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.

He’s a writer for the ages… for the ages of four to eight.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Dumb as rocks, thin as paper and dull as scissors…

American movie critic

Michael Madsen? Michelle Rodriguez? ‘I’ll take “Actors Who Should Never Appear in Period Pieces” for $500, Alex.’

writer, editor & film reviewer

The first act occupied three hours… I enjoyed that in spite of the singing.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

It’s boring.

film critic

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

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

Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

(1897 – 1977) British politician & Prime Minister

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

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

He uses a lot of big words, and his sentences are from here to the airport.

(1947 – ) American writer & populist political activist

I would much rather see two hours of [Robert Downey, Jr.] improvising without any script, than watch five minutes of Zach Galifianakis’ tired shtick.

film critic

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist

All through the five acts of that Shakespearean tragedy he played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the Ace.

(1850 – 1895) American writer

Those who cannot remember history are doomed to learn it from Oliver Stone movies.

(1954–2007) Canadian film critic

There’s a certain irony in having a timeless tale about a man finding his soul being told in the most soulless way possible.

film critic

The movie is too busy being thuggish bilge to note the irony of using every tank and missile at Ice Cube’s disposal to rescue a U.S. president about to downgrade defense spending.

English journalist