Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 4)

It's a car movie made by people who couldn't find reverse in a Volkswagen; a puzzle box thriller assembled by the functionally insane.

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Only someone so smart could make a movie this stupid.

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If I were a cop and I had seen both Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, I'd be at writer Kevin Williamson’s house searching it for drugs. If I didn't find something, I'd plant a kilo of heroin in his ass for writing this piece of crap.

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

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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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Fred Astaire looks as if he has just rolled out of his tomb, and Gene Kelly sports a toupee that looks borrowed from Howard Cosell for the occasion.

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Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

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I would accuse American Reunion of being misogynistic, but the movie seems to hold all of humanity in contempt, not just women.

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This poem will not reach its destination.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist
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The audience would have booed and hissed after the first act, but you can't do that and yawn at the same time.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
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Not nearly as awful as everyone seems to think it is.

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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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Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours…

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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The Citizen Kane of sperm-donor comedies.

film editor, writer & reviewer
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Think of it as a carefully constructed entertainment for the benefit of people who really, really like beer commercials.

(1962 – ) British journalist & film critic
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Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Insults Reviews/Criticism

Identity Thief starts off moronic and then goes downhill.

British broadcaster, writer & film critic
Driving Reviews/Criticism

If I were married to her, I’d be sure to have dinner ready when she got home.

(1920 – ) U.S. Secretary of State economist, statesman & businessman
People Reviews/Criticism

If you want to see what happens when independent filmmakers have too much money and don’t know what to do with it, just go see Bee Season.

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It's not music, it's a disease.

(1911 – 2010) American bandleader
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

Amateurishness can have its charms. But when it doesn’t, it looks very much like this excruciatingly farcical, alleged romantic comedy…

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