Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 11)

I wish you could have heard that pretty crash Beauty and the Beast made when, with one sweeping, liquid gesture, I tossed it out of my twelfth-story window.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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

Here's where we we get out the thesaurus and look up synonyms for "garbage."

entertainment critic
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Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Books Communication Reviews/Criticism

Was there no one connected with this project who read the screenplay, considered the story, evaluated the proposed film and vomited?

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Many TV programs suck, but none has ever sucked with such eye-popping abandon as this one.

Irish reviewer
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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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His [George Bush] popularity rating – his approval rating – with blacks: two percent… two percent… that is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator
Insults People Reviews/Criticism

This book of essays… has all the depth and glitter of a worn dime.

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

To imagine that there was a whole process required to bring this film to screen is almost too painful to imagine.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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If you hear the phrase "Italian caveman epic" and your heart doesn't sing at least a little bit, then I pity your sad and joyless existence.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Heaven sends us good meat, but the Dieil sends cooks.


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It is easier to pull down than to build up.

Proverbs Reviews/Criticism

If you were to order 42 at the ballpark you’d get a corndog.

film critic
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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)
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It's a car movie made by people who couldn't find reverse in a Volkswagen; a puzzle box thriller assembled by the functionally insane.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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I’m still working on my time machine; if I ever perfect it, I’m going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made… and then I’m going after Hitler.

(1956 – ) American comedian
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My first thought in watching The Hobbit was: Do we really need this movie? It was my last thought, too.

film reviewer & critic
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Motion Sickness Nightmare

film critic
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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
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Think of it as a carefully constructed entertainment for the benefit of people who really, really like beer commercials.

(1962 – ) British journalist & film critic
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