Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 15)

It not only promotes every stereotype and invokes every cliché of Brooklyn lore, it combines them all into an insulting composite, fuses that to the chrome-and-fins of the pointless Fifties, and then – weirdly – pretends it’s Shakespeare.

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If you don't knit bring a good book.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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The first time I saw you on stage I realized what a wonderful voice you've got; I think you're so brave not to have had it trained.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator
Acting Insults Reviews/Criticism

Keanu Reeves, perhaps worried that he was showing too much range, has purged himself of all expression apart from a worried frown and a sorrowful grimace.

(1966 – ) American journalist & film critic
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What big clichés you have!

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The incompetent who directed this film is Mike Mitchell, who’s probably some buddy of (Rob) Schneider and Adam Sandler, and whose main talent up until this point was cleaning potato chip crumbs off Sandler’s couch.

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It’s difficult to know what’s going on, and even harder to care.

British broadcaster, writer & film critic
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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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I even watched Mulholland Drive in French… it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either.

Irish radio broadcaster
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It’s so bad that the Director's Guild should revoke [director Zack] Snyder’s membership and he should never be allowed to direct again.

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If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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It [Heaven’s Gate] fails so completely that you might suspect Michael Cimino sold his soul to the Devil to obtain the success of the Deer Hunter, and the Devil has just come around to collect.

(1924 – 2000) American film critic
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Her only flair is in her nostrils.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic
Appearance Reviews/Criticism

“Flubber” is further evidence of the death of cinema.

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Director Ted Demme is a moron, and here’s why.

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It was W. C. Fields who hated to appear in the same scene with a child, a dog, or a plunging neckline – because nobody in the audience would be looking at him. Jennifer Aniston has the same problem in this movie even when she’s in scenes all by herself.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Yeah Johnny, it’s got a Hemi. Too bad the rest of your movie is such a broken-down lemon.

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

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

British film critic & writer
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo makes a living cleaning fish tanks and occasionally prostituting himself. How much he charges I'm not sure, but the price is worth it if it keeps him off the streets and out of another movie.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Your expectations of how bad The Lone Ranger is can’t trump the reality.

American film critic & televison interviewer
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