Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 2)

You leave eager to tell your friends about the unprecedented awfulness you’ve witnessed.

English movie reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

I’m still working on my time machine; if I ever perfect it, I’m going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made… and then I’m going after Hitler.

(1956 – ) American comedian
Reviews/Criticism

Watching Tallulah Bankhead on the stage is like watching somebody skating on thin ice – everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

(1946 – ) British playwright, screen writer & film director
Communication Reviews/Criticism

If you kiss in front of a sunset just before the climax, and then try to talk down four suicide bombers, cinematic mathematics require you to die. It’s in the numbers.

(1977 – ) British television presenter
Reviews/Criticism

There's less in this than meets the eye.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Reviews/Criticism

Overheard at the pitch meeting: “So what if The Terminator was like, um… a sexy lady in a red leather get-up?” “Sold!”

film editor, writer & reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

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

British broadcaster, writer & film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Like all self-made men he worships his creator.

Insults Reviews/Criticism

I have knocked everything but the knees of the chorus girls, and nature has anticipated me there.

(1873–1936) American theater critic
Reviews/Criticism

Stop for a moment and ponder just how stupid it is to blow the ending of your movie in the title.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

What’s next for (Director Paul W.S.) Anderson? Maybe “Hannibal 2,” in which Anthony Hopkins escorts a group of toddlers to Chuck E. Cheese?

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

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
Reviews/Criticism

When Mr. Wilbur calls his play ‘Halfway to Hell,’ he underestimates the distance.

(1894 – 1984) theatre critic
Communication Reviews/Criticism

Blamelessness runs riot though the six hundred pages.

(1937 – ) British historian
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

The movie’s just such a pain in the ass.

American movie critic
Reviews/Criticism

The first time I saw you on stage I realized what a wonderful voice you've got; I think you're so brave not to have had it trained.

(1865-1940) English actress
Entertainment Insults Reviews/Criticism

… as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Insults Reviews/Criticism

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

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

… the most terrifying thing about The X-Files, in fact, are its “fans.” These guys make movie critics look healthy.

British film critic & writer
Reviews/Criticism