Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 25)

This feature makes Three Stooges Meet Hercules look like a visionary satire.

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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
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It defines boredom by mostly being boring about it.

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Safe House will have you on the edge of your seat – so you can spring out of it the second the credits roll.

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To imagine that there was a whole process required to bring this film to screen is almost too painful to imagine.

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Loved Ben, hated Hur.

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Dragging your boyfriend/husband to this movie will give him the leverage to demand multiple screenings of Jerry Bruckheimer films as penance. Ladies, you have been warned.

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We could have done just as well to watch the proceedings on Court TV — free, as it were, to flip channels or get up for a snack and skip the parts that disinterest us, rather than be held hostage by 125 minutes of drive-by clichés.

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If you plan on seeing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, bring a book. You won't be able to read it in the darkened theater, of course, but it should still provide more entertainment than what’s on the screen. Feel the binding. Flip through the pages. Wear it on your head.

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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture – none of it under the right people.

(1909 – 1955) American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter & film critic
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That isn’t brimstone we’re smelling on Ghost Rider. It’s something else.

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Those who cannot remember history are doomed to learn it from Oliver Stone movies.

(1954–2007) Canadian film critic
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Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

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

Gone in 60 Seconds seems to be trying hard.

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The network bragged that it crammed 1,000 Moroccan extras, 600 horses, a ton of copper and 300 wigs into the production. All that, and not one ounce of intelligence.

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Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first; I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

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

Not nearly as awful as everyone seems to think it is.

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While Stone may look good for her age, the reality is that such behavior in the real world would likely leave her less sexy and irresistible, and more partially decomposed.

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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.

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Dumb as rocks, thin as paper and dull as scissors…

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

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