Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 19)

I knew we were in trouble when the cops drew a chalk outline around the box office.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.

(1928 – ) Canadian stage magician, skeptic & opponent of pseudoscience
Reviews/Criticism

In this day and age, there’s simply no good excuse for having that many children.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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The Citizen Kane of sperm-donor comedies.

film editor, writer & reviewer
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Barbra’s only spontaneous moment in Prince of Tides comes when Nick tosses her a football and she screams “My nails!”

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

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

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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She was so bad he shot himself in it.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
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Turn with caution!

musician & film reviewer
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Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right… he failed.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist
Music Reviews/Criticism

Planes is an abomination wrapped inside a bullshit party. That’s really all I want to write about this endless crap festival of a film…

(movie reviews at comedyfilmnerds.com)
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More dreadful than dangerous.

musician & film reviewer
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A totally stupid movie, Star Trek Into Darkness falls apart as it goes, raining debris as it implodes like a building being demolished.

film critic
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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

House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Oh come on. Like you couldn’t smell this turkey rotting from miles away.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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I went into the Plymouth Theater a comparatively young woman, and I staggered out of it three hours later, twenty years older, haggard and broken with suffering.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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Heaven sends us good meat, but the Dieil sends cooks.


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Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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I would much rather see two hours of [Robert Downey, Jr.] improvising without any script, than watch five minutes of Zach Galifianakis’ tired shtick.

film critic
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Sarah Brightman couldn't act scared on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning.

(1943 – 2007) American film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Less an exercise in catharsis than an obstacle course of premise-heavy, flashback-drenched plot points, it’s an emotional flat-liner…

film critic
Reviews/Criticism