Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 17)

The Good, The Bad and the Elderly

musician & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

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

British broadcaster, writer & film critic
Reviews/Criticism

While Stone may look good for her age, the reality is that such behavior in the real world would likely leave her less sexy and irresistible, and more partially decomposed.

(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

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
Reviews/Criticism

It would perhaps be hard to imagine a clumsier or more disjointed frame-work for the display of the tawdry wares which form Mr. Dickens’s stock-in-trade.

Reviews/Criticism

A buxom temptress… more impressive in silhouette than in action.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer
Acting 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

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic
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Is it trying to be a parody of itself?

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

This is a woman who thinks the Spanish Inquisition was just tough love for heretics.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer
Reviews/Criticism TV/Movie Quotes

This movie is the definition of a dud, something that just sits inert on screen.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

I've seen audits that were more thrilling.

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

If Threat Matrix made it onto the ABC schedule, imagine the shows that didn’t.


Reviews/Criticism

If given the choice between going to class and seeing the high-school comedy General Education, go with school.

film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

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

You know when sometimes a film catches fire inside a projector? If it happened with this one, I suspect the audience might cheer.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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The acting is always good, but when it's not, you can always expect that character to flash her boobs, so who's complaining?

editor, director, performer, & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

As a routine thriller Firewall is barely functional, but as a waste of talent, it’s positively amazing.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

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

This is either bad writing, bad direction, bad acting or a combination of the three.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism