Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 22)

Like watching an affair between a mad rocking-horse and a rawhide suitcase.

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

It seems like the career of M. Night Shyamalan has gotten to the point where “it’s not embarrassing” is high compliment.

(movie reviews at themovieguys.net)
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Dumb as rocks, thin as paper and dull as scissors…

American movie critic
Reviews/Criticism

Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.

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

All books over five hundred pages that weren’t written by Dickens or a dead Russian are better left on the shelf.

journalist & author
Books Reviews/Criticism

The main character’s bout with cancer throughout 50/50 was nothing compared to the mental anguish I was forced to deal with as the 'plot' of this misguided medical morass unfolded before me.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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Last Supper and Original Cast Couldn’t Draw In This House.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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Like acting with 210 pounds of condemned veal.

(1913 – 1991) Australian actress
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Love is a douche commercial.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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I have read your book and much like it.

(1900 – 1986) American teacher & translator
Books Reviews/Criticism

Crude is the name of Robert Hyde’s first novel; it is also a criticism of it.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Books Communication Reviews/Criticism

This time, the Force wasn’t with him.

film reviewer
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I had a premonition this might be a forgettable mediocrity, but I was wrong. It's actually a laughable turd.

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

She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Avoid all needle drugs – the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

(1936 – 1989) American social & political activist
Insults Reviews/Criticism

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

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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The battle was lost several movies earlier.

musician & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

The first act occupied three hours… I enjoyed that in spite of the singing.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Reviews/Criticism

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

(1877 – 1934) British-American lawyer & writer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

I’m glad it wasn’t that bad.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism