Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 23)

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

The old man and the Cialis.

American movie critic

Me no Leica.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic

I always said that I'd like Barrymore's acting till the cows came home. Well, ladies and gentleman, last night the cows came home.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

He’s a writer for the ages… for the ages of four to eight.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Even a 14-year-old — maybe especially a 14-year-old — knows lameness when he sees it.

American television critic

It's not music, it's a disease.

(1911 – 2010) American bandleader

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

writer, editor & film reviewer

I think that the film Clueless was very deep; I think it was deep in the way that it was very light; I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

(1976 – ) American actress

Trump’s nothing like Hitler… there’s no way he could write a book.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

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

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As a work of art, it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

In his bodybuilding days Arnold Schwarzenegger was known as the Austrian Oak; then he started acting and was know as… the Austrian Oak.

(1961 – ) English standup comedian, actor & writer

Colin Farrell’s manful battle with the puerile dialogue, dodgy [Irish] accents, wandering plot and some unreliable supporting performances is greater than anything the real Alexander would have faced, and is ultimately one he cannot win.

Irish film critic

Watching [Nicolas] Cage karate chop Leelee “Made-for-TV” Sobiesky into submission is almost worth the price of admission. Well, assuming admission was free.

editor, director, performer, & film reviewer

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

(1891 – 1951) comedian, singer, theater & film actress

There is some serious venom spewing from this movie, probably because screenwriters Steve Franks and Tim Herlihy are beginning to realize their only talent in life consists of riding their friend’s coattails through the Garden of Mediocrity.

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This is the kind of show to give pornography a bad name.

(1927 – 2008) British-born American writer & critic

My name is Bob, and I am a father who is very afraid.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist

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

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist