Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 4)

It [Heaven’s Gate] fails so completely that you might suspect Michael Cimino sold his soul to the Devil to obtain the success of the Deer Hunter, and the Devil has just come around to collect.

(1924 – 2000) American film critic
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This is a woman who thinks the Spanish Inquisition was just tough love for heretics.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer
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Caligula is sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash. If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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It's like watching the travel video of the most annoying guy you know.

film reviewer
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It not only promotes every stereotype and invokes every cliché of Brooklyn lore, it combines them all into an insulting composite, fuses that to the chrome-and-fins of the pointless Fifties, and then – weirdly – pretends it’s Shakespeare.

film critic
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I don't remember it being like this when I did the Roman Empire at school.

television critic
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Being called a slut by Rush Limbaugh is like being called a slut by an obese drug addict.

(1958 – ) American writer, comedian, satirist & actor
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A lady… with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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Literary diarrhea.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Insults 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

Here's where we we get out the thesaurus and look up synonyms for "garbage."

entertainment critic
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You can actually hear the writers pulling ideas out of their butts and flinging them willy-nilly at the screen.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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It’s like having an orange popcicle, the mild orange taste is pleasing enough, but no one ever spends much time thinking about it afterwards, it’s banished from our thoughts because while the taste is good, it’s also unremarkable.

(movie reviews at themovieguys.net)
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We are living here on a planet in shambles, terrorists running murderously amok, the Mideast on the verge of exploding, humanity plagued by hateful prejudices that go back centuries, poverty and depravity rampant, and when God decides to intervene, it’s to straighten out a few troubled folks in a small town and solve a murder case?

British film critic & writer
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The dialogue was it’s only strong area, but liking the film because of that would be akin to thinking a park bench a good snack because someone spilled your favorite espresso on it.

(movie reviews at themovieguys.net)
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John Waters’ Pink Flamingos has been restored for its 25th anniversary revival, and with any luck at all that means I won’t have to see it again for another 25 years. If I haven’t retired by then, I will.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Which is he playing now?

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist
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Many TV programs suck, but none has ever sucked with such eye-popping abandon as this one.

Irish reviewer
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Fool! Dost thou not know that creepy children have cursed our screens in numbers too great to count, and by now, we find them marginally less terrifying than navel lint?

writer, editor & film reviewer
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I’m glad it wasn’t that bad.

film critic
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If Airplane! was Mad Magazine at its absolute best, a real genius work of insanity, Scary Movie 5 is an issue you don’t bother trying to get back after the teacher confiscates it.

film critic
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