Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 22)

Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

writer, editor & film reviewer

The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

(1885 – 1977) English mathematician

He uses a lot of big words, and his sentences are from here to the airport.

(1947 – ) American writer & populist political activist

Ignatowski’s got a father? There goes my spore theory!

(1944 – ) American actor, director & producer

Nowadays Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.

(1946 – ) British journalist & broadcaster

This movie is the definition of a dud, something that just sits inert on screen.

film critic

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

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

You must have a better way to spend that $13.

movie critic

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

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist

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

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)

You know those movies that look like they’re going to be really insipid and then completely surprise you? 17 Again isn’t one of those.

film critic

His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum.

(1890 – 1954) British critic

[Raymond] Massey won’t be satisfied until he’s assassinated.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

The dialogue was it’s only strong area, but liking the film because of that would be akin to thinking a park bench a good snack because someone spilled your favorite espresso on it.

(movie reviews at themovieguys.net)

The acting is always good, but when it's not, you can always expect that character to flash her boobs, so who's complaining?

editor, director, performer, & film reviewer

There's less in this than meets the eye.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

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

Next to Epic Movie and Date Movie, the Scary Movies are French cuisine.

American writer & film critic

If I had wanted to watch two hours of “VH-1,” guess what? … I would have stayed home and done that… for free.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)

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

(1855 – 1937) American musical critic & scholar

Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of wet toilet paper.

(1938 – ) film critic & former television co-host