Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 15)

I will one day be thin… but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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By trying to convince us that we’re having a good time even as it pounds us senseless, Speed Racer moves beyond mediocrity and into the realm of active irritant.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Two things should be cut – the second act and the child's throat.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
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Barb Wire is unlikely to spark heated intellectual debate at film schools anytime soon.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be… it is what it used to be; that is what's wrong with it.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

Perhaps the only use this film has is to give philosophers who sit through it some way of experiencing what eternity truly means.

film critic
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There ought to be a worse punishment than cancellation for a show that tries this hard to be offensive and, even at that crass task, manages to fail.

(1944 – ) American television critic
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It’s an underestimation of the intelligence of your average eight year old to believe his or her rapt attention can be held for long by a film like this.

film critic
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More dreadful than dangerous.

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

journalist & film critic
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

(1932 – 1963) novelist & poet
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

I came away impressed with the mutant power of director Brett Ratner. We should strategically deploy him to destroy runaway movie franchises that threaten mankind with their continued existence.

American film critic
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The only reason you could possibly want to sit through this low-rent rip-off is to force your significant other to terminate the relationship because of your terrible taste in films.

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It’s as if seven Vice Presidents of Production sat in a boardroom for three days straight, without food or water, and finally their collective genius, poring over reams of test screening data, resoundingly declared with one voice, “We Need More Rum Jokes.”

film critic
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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
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Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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John Waters’ Pink Flamingos has been restored for its 25th anniversary revival, and with any luck at all that means I won’t have to see it again for another 25 years. If I haven’t retired by then, I will.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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You know you’re in trouble when you’re reduced to praising a movie for its absence of fart jokes, and have to add ‘almost.’

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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If I’d had anything to do with it, I’d be wearing a balaclava and writing under an assumed name.

British broadcaster, writer & film critic
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I've seen audits that were more thrilling.

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