Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 17)

Drew Barrymore sings so badly, deaf people refuse to watch her lips move.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
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Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra – and sank.

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author
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Whenever I see Denise Richards I tend to say the same thing Dustin Hoffman’s father said in “The Graduate”: ‘plastics’.

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I thought I heard one of the original lines of the show.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

(1916 – 1986) American poet, translator & etymologist
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This show may well exist on a plane where the awesomely terrible is equivalent to the terribly awesome.

American film critic
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Valentine's Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think it's more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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“Flubber” is further evidence of the death of cinema.

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You know when an actress like Claire Forlani starts making fun of other actresses for being anorexic, the film is operating in another dimension.

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The network bragged that it crammed 1,000 Moroccan extras, 600 horses, a ton of copper and 300 wigs into the production. All that, and not one ounce of intelligence.

American film critic
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… if you’ve ever wondered what kind of jokes dogs would tell if they could speak, here’s your chance.

film critic
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The play holds the season’s record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinée… by an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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I defy you to write a dumber screenplay.

film critic
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The best thing about Chill Factor is that it’s over fast.

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The scariest moment in the movie was when it intimated that there might yet be another episode.

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Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

(1897 – 1977) British politician & Prime Minister
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Whew! That was close: something almost happened there for a minute.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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While Babylon A.D. isn’t the worst big-budget sci-fi film ever made, it comes near enough to merit avoiding at all costs.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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… I was idly looking at the cinema ceiling, to see if there was a beam I could throw a rope over.

British writer & film critic
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Saving Silverman is so bad in so many different ways that perhaps you should see it, as an example of the lowest slopes of the bell-shaped curve.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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He has his head in the clouds and his feet in the box office.

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