Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 25)

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

writer & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Little Indian, Big City is one of the worst movies ever made. I detested every moronic minute of it…if you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again.

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

Alison Skipworth: You forget I’ve been an actress for forty years.

West: Don’t worry dear, I’ll keep your secret.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Acting Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

Like acting with 210 pounds of condemned veal.

(1913 – 1991) Australian actress
Reviews/Criticism

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

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Your expectations of how bad The Lone Ranger is can’t trump the reality.

American film critic & televison interviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Think of it as a carefully constructed entertainment for the benefit of people who really, really like beer commercials.

(1962 – ) British journalist & film critic
Reviews/Criticism

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Communication Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

Sarah Brightman couldn't act scared on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning.

(1943 – 2007) American film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

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

American writer & film critic
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
Reviews/Criticism

“This sucks on so many levels.” — Dialogue from Jason X. Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. Jason X sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.

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

Two things should be cut – the second act and the child's throat.

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

This show may well exist on a plane where the awesomely terrible is equivalent to the terribly awesome.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

He writes dialogues by cutting monologues in two.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

… it’s about as entertaining as being pulled over by U.S. customs.

(1954 – ) British writer & critic
Reviews/Criticism

The best I can say about Conan the Barbarian is that it’s not as bad as I was expecting.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

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

If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

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

Did the studio put so little faith in this snowball of ineptitude that the filmmakers couldn’t even afford a tripod?

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Regarded by many as the moment in US cinema when brain cells truly became optional…

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