Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 3)

A bad temper, like Mr. Whistler's paintings, should never be displayed in public.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
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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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[Lindsay] Lohan reads more like oak than Marilyn Monroe on her most inebriated day.

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

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Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Love is a douche commercial.

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You can't watch it without being convinced that the Americans are doomed… Springer assembles the white trash, not to mention the black trash, the Hispanic trash, and every other category of bozo in these United States, and sets them loose to abuse one another for our entertainment.

(1961 – ) Irish journalist, writer & playwright
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Darling, they’ve absolutely ruined your perfectly dreadful play.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
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I don't know if Oliver [Stone] is going through detox or what, but ever since Natural Born Killers, he's moved the camera around like an epileptic in an earthquake.

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I had a premonition this might be a forgettable mediocrity, but I was wrong. It's actually a laughable turd.

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One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend hearing it a second time.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer
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This show may well exist on a plane where the awesomely terrible is equivalent to the terribly awesome.

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Michael Madsen? Michelle Rodriguez? ‘I’ll take “Actors Who Should Never Appear in Period Pieces” for $500, Alex.’

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Red Tails is a lousy film. Not wincingly bad, mind you, just mediocre.

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Heaven sends us good meat, but the Dieil sends cooks.


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The only reason you could possibly want to sit through this low-rent rip-off is to force your significant other to terminate the relationship because of your terrible taste in films.

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His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum.

(1890 – 1954) British critic
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[Raymond] Massey won’t be satisfied until he’s assassinated.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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To call Jackass the worst movie of the year is practically a compliment. It is an appalling illustration of how low corporate America will go to make a buck.

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Me no Leica.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic
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Leave it to Hollywood to take a bad idea and make it terrible.

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