Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 27)

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

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes.

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

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

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

The movie’s just such a pain in the ass.

American movie critic
Reviews/Criticism

I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

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

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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

What’s next, “The Old Woman who lives in the Shoe – with Shoulder-Fired Rocket Launchers?”

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

It’s a ship. It sinks. People die. Sound familiar?

film critic
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A totally stupid movie, Star Trek Into Darkness falls apart as it goes, raining debris as it implodes like a building being demolished.

film critic
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If you have a dog, it will be sniffing and whimpering at the screen in recognition of one of its one kind… a film whose special badness defies virtually any attempt at description.

Reviews/Criticism

Oh come on. Like you couldn’t smell this turkey rotting from miles away.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

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.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Not only could we see that coming a mile away, we could see it wouldn't be funny from a mile away.

(1959 – ) American columnist & film critic
Reviews/Criticism

This movie is so badly acted and directed that it would have improved its seriousness significantly by casting finger puppets in the major roles.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

At least it’s not in 3D.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

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.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.

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

Watching them was like watching two men who'd been thrown out of an airplane trying to share the same parachute.

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

Since the scenes where they're together are so much less convincing than the ones where they fall apart, watching the movie is like being on a double-date from hell.

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

Spice World is obviously intended as a ripoff of A Hard Day's Night which gave The Beatles to the movies… the huge difference, of course, is that the Beatles were talented — while, let's face it, the Spice Girls could be duplicated by any five women under the age of 30 standing in line at Dunkin' Donuts.

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

I wouldn't buy your book if you gave it to me.

Misspokements Reviews/Criticism