Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 18)

If you don't knit bring a good book.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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Think of Cowboys & Aliens as the wet spot on your mattress after a night of questionable passion. Everyone knows who made the wet spot, but no one wants to own up to it.

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Safe House will have you on the edge of your seat – so you can spring out of it the second the credits roll.

film critic
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I'm afraid I missed large portions of this movie because my eyes spent so much time rolling.

American film critic
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No matter how sheltered and virginal the heroine, at the moment of crisis, it turns out that she has all along been an expert kick-boxer.

(1960 – ) Canadian-American journalist
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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
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I can sum it up like this: no boobs, no blood, no point. Walk away from this one please!

film critic
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It’s truly rare that you see this level of insightful childhood psychoanalysis in a film about a basketball-playing dog.

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Sun Tzu believed that becoming predictable would lead to disaster. Apparently, the creators of The Art of War couldn’t be bothered to take him to heart.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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In space no one can hear you yawn.

film critic
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The battle was lost several movies earlier.

musician & film reviewer
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I was hoping it would at least be mindless fun but it ends up just being mindless.

film critic
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This Mamet adaptation takes place in a very confined space, involves little or no action and is mostly concerned with how many minutes an actor can spew Mamet's laborious dialogue without collapsing.

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It probably helps if you're high too when checking out Bad Teacher, as that might help you get through the film’s excruciating lack of plot, combined with a cast of characters that might as well have been lifted directly from every single f**king movie about a school ever made… ever.

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I defy you to write a dumber screenplay.

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

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer
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This isn't just a film 13-year old boys would like, this is a film that a 13-year old boy would make, if he could make a film.

(1960 – ) Welsh author & newspaper columnist
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Rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, in order to provide articles for people who can’t read.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night… Brahms lost.

(1898 – 1971) American humorist
Music Reviews/Criticism

If an utter lack of effort had its own award show, the people involved with Baseketball could stand proudly next to the Yugo engineers and Monica Lewinsky's personal trainer as deserving nominees.

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“This sucks on so many levels.” — Dialogue from Jason X. Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. Jason X sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.

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