Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 16)

Colin Farrell’s manful battle with the puerile dialogue, dodgy [Irish] accents, wandering plot and some unreliable supporting performances is greater than anything the real Alexander would have faced, and is ultimately one he cannot win.

Irish film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Nowadays Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.

(1946 – ) British journalist & broadcaster
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Amateurishness can have its charms. But when it doesn’t, it looks very much like this excruciatingly farcical, alleged romantic comedy…

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Watching HBO’s surfing drama John from Cincinnati is like sitting through a bad play at a tiny experimental theater.

American reporter & television critic
Reviews/Criticism

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

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

When you’ve seen all of Ionesco’s plays… you’ve seen one of them.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer
Reviews/Criticism

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer.

(1819 – 1900) English art critic, social thinker, poet & artist
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

(1877 – 1934) British-American lawyer & writer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail.

(1957 – ) American actor, director, writer & fireman
Reviews/Criticism

There has been but one sweet, misty interlude in my [insomnia]; that was the evening I fell into a dead dreamless slumber brought on by the reading of a book called Appendicitis.

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

This couple has endured for over 900 years; the least Tristan & Isolde can do is show us a reason why.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

At least it’s not in 3D.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Earthquake epic 10.5 presents a choice: Either run screaming or pass the beer and savor a camp classic… it is so phenomenally bad it borders on spoofed genius.

American television critic
Reviews/Criticism

The only conceivable reason for airing this was to bring the presenter to the greater public ridicule he so gratingly deserves.

(1954 – ) British writer & critic
Reviews/Criticism

You must have a better way to spend that $13.

movie critic
Reviews/Criticism

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Reviews/Criticism

I don't remember it being like this when I did the Roman Empire at school.

television critic
Reviews/Criticism

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Books Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

A bad temper, like Mr. Whistler's paintings, should never be displayed in public.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics Reviews/Criticism

It’s obvious that nobody believed in this project longer than it took for the check to clear.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist
Acting Reviews/Criticism