Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 4)

[Kevin] Spacey would have looked more believable playing Joan Rivers. I was convinced this was a science fiction film for a while because Spacey was wearing so much makeup I thought he was an android.

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


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This film could have been two hours of [Mel] Gibson scanning through microfiche and it wouldn’t have been any more dull.

film critic
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Charles Dickens, dead, writes more than [American playwright] Marc Connelly alive.

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

Unfortunately, all Coach Carter taught me was that I can actually scratch the first four verses of Revelations into the back of a theater chair with my fingernail in a little under two hours.

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Miscellaneous Reviews/Criticism

The weird part about the advertising for Midnight in Paris is that it wasn't at all presented as some kind of time travel fantasy, which meant I left my aviator goggles and opium ampoules at home.

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There ought to be a worse punishment than cancellation for a show that tries this hard to be offensive and, even at that crass task, manages to fail.

(1944 – ) American television critic
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Like all self-made men he worships his creator.

Insults Reviews/Criticism

When Mr. Wilbur calls his play ‘Halfway to Hell,’ he underestimates the distance.

(1894 – 1984) theatre critic
Communication Reviews/Criticism

Barb Wire is unlikely to spark heated intellectual debate at film schools anytime soon.

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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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You know you’re in trouble when you’re reduced to praising a movie for its absence of fart jokes, and have to add ‘almost.’

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Is this what we’ve been reduced to? A film whose noise and explosions are separated from the season’s other noise and explosions solely by the fact that they’re painted blue?

writer, editor & film reviewer
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A forgettable entertainment that might be worth a matinee if you can't think of anything else to do – laundry, for example.

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Assassins!

(1867 – 1957) Italian conductor
Music Reviews/Criticism

You know, when the Devil’s spawn are susceptible to steak-knife attacks, evil has a problem.

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Whenever I see Denise Richards I tend to say the same thing Dustin Hoffman’s father said in “The Graduate”: ‘plastics’.

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The most surprising thing about “New Moon,” the second film in the Twilight series, is how much worse it is than the first.

film critic
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Yes, you can polish a turd.

American writer & film critic
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Mr. [Channing] Tatum… gives Keanu Reeves serious competition – defining numerous shades of blank of which I had been thus far unaware.

film critic
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That film sucked so bad my opinion of it went straight to video.

(1957 – ) American actor, comedian, writer & director
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