Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 21)

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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A play in which nothing happens… twice.

(1919–1989) Irish literary critic
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Charles Dickens, dead, writes more than [American playwright] Marc Connelly alive.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Steve Guttenberg and a friendship between a dog and a dolphin – in what fiery pit of hell was this heartwarming plot conjured?

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It's like watching the travel video of the most annoying guy you know.

film reviewer
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The results are more akin to a high school production of Pearl Harbor.

American film critic
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Thor is really just like your dad out in the garage after a few drinks. Only more racist.

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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter; some day I intend reading it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Books Reviews/Criticism

It’s so bad that the Director's Guild should revoke [director Zack] Snyder’s membership and he should never be allowed to direct again.

film critic
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Shostakovich is without doubt the foremost composer of pornographic music in the history of art.

(1855 – 1937) American musical critic & scholar
Music Reviews/Criticism

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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A lady… with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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This film appears to be something of an homage to "Some Like it Hot", which is kind of like saying that a bum taking a crap in a dumpster is an homage to “Star Wars.”

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Me no Leica.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic
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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

William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist speaks very slowly, like a Mormon on quaaludes.

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

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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For me, there was a perverse masochistic pleasure in enduring the damn thing all over again, just to remind myself how cross it made me the first time round.

(1963 – ) English musician & film critic
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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
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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
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Just as long as the real thing and twice as noisy.

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