Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 24)

Even this comedic triumvirate cannot prevent the script’s biggest feat of magic: making the laughs disappear.

writer & film reviewer
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… it’s about as entertaining as being pulled over by U.S. customs.

(1954 – ) British writer & critic
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Nowadays Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.

(1946 – ) British journalist & broadcaster
Acting Reviews/Criticism

“ …as fascinating as chewing styrofoam – with the occasional firecracker jammed in to make you chew faster.

film critic
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No matter how sheltered and virginal the heroine, at the moment of crisis, it turns out that she has all along been an expert kick-boxer.

(1960 – ) Canadian-American journalist
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Keanu Reeves, perhaps worried that he was showing too much range, has purged himself of all expression apart from a worried frown and a sorrowful grimace.

(1966 – ) American journalist & film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Is this what we’ve been reduced to? A film whose noise and explosions are separated from the season’s other noise and explosions solely by the fact that they’re painted blue?

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Dumb as rocks, thin as paper and dull as scissors…

American movie critic
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If [Robert] Duvall can improve on his next effort, somebody might hire him to write and direct the return of the Police Academy movies. It would be a step up.

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

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

If I ever do a festival of films that deserve to be overlooked, Friends & Lovers is my opening night selection.

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

She stopped the show – but then the show wasn't traveling very fast.

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

He writes his plays for the ages – the ages between five and twelve.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor
Insults Reviews/Criticism

Mostly, Rome looks like X-rated Masterpiece Theater…

American journalist
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Another half-baked helping of the worst kind of scientific clap-trap.

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Red Tails is a lousy film. Not wincingly bad, mind you, just mediocre.

film critic
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I hate The Lone Ranger as much as The Lone Ranger hates The Lone Ranger.

film critic
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There’s a bright young director behind Silent Hill: Revelation and a very strong cast to bring the story to life, but the movie is still terrible.

movie critic
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It’s truly rare that you see this level of insightful childhood psychoanalysis in a film about a basketball-playing dog.

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War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth’s population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

(1966 – ) American journalist & film critic
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If I had wanted to watch two hours of “VH-1,” guess what? … I would have stayed home and done that… for free.

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