Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 16)

You can actually hear the writers pulling ideas out of their butts and flinging them willy-nilly at the screen.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

If I had wanted to watch two hours of “VH-1,” guess what? … I would have stayed home and done that… for free.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist speaks very slowly, like a Mormon on quaaludes.

(Paul Rudnick) (1957 – ) Satiric film critic & author
Acting Reviews/Criticism

The Good, The Bad and the Elderly

musician & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

A steaming pile of clichés and screaming unlikelihoods.

arts editor
Reviews/Criticism

Yes, you can polish a turd.

American writer & film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Two things should be cut – the second act and the child's throat.

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

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

American movie critic
Reviews/Criticism

Orlando Bloom was so wooden he could have played the horse.

Irish film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

It seems like the career of M. Night Shyamalan has gotten to the point where “it’s not embarrassing” is high compliment.

(movie reviews at themovieguys.net)
Reviews/Criticism

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica… it was the festival's closing film, coming at the end like the horses in a parade, perhaps for the same reason.

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

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

You leave eager to tell your friends about the unprecedented awfulness you’ve witnessed.

English movie reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

The movie is being revived around the country for midnight cult showings. Midnight is not late enough.

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

There's less in this than meets the eye.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Reviews/Criticism

I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again.

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

George Moore wrote excellent English until he discovered grammar.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Communication Language Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Loved Ben, hated Hur.

Reviews/Criticism

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
Acting 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)
Reviews/Criticism

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
Reviews/Criticism