Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 5)

While Stone may look good for her age, the reality is that such behavior in the real world would likely leave her less sexy and irresistible, and more partially decomposed.

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Here’s the big mystery of Pittsburgh: How did this movie manage to be so completely terrible?

film critic
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If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

(1802 – 1873) English painter
Art Reviews/Criticism Self

The man who can’t dance thinks the band is no good.

Dance Proverbs Reviews/Criticism

Shostakovich is without doubt the foremost composer of pornographic music in the history of art.

(1855 – 1937) American musical critic & scholar
Music Reviews/Criticism

A lady… with all the poise of the Sphinx though but little of her mystery.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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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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Like something you'd see if the NRA had its own music-video channel.

(1959 – ) American film critic
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You say ‘psychotic codependency’ like it’s a bad thing.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Memoirs of a Geisha builds a beautiful garden, then runs an interstate through it to let more people in.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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This is the kind of show to give pornography a bad name.

(1927 – 2008) British-born American writer & critic
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The incompetent who directed this film is Mike Mitchell, who’s probably some buddy of (Rob) Schneider and Adam Sandler, and whose main talent up until this point was cleaning potato chip crumbs off Sandler’s couch.

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This is like a better version of George Lucas’ Red Tails without the explosions. Oh yeah, and change fighter pilots with baseball players.

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The Citizen Kane of sperm-donor comedies.

film editor, writer & reviewer
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A steaming pile of clichés and screaming unlikelihoods.

arts editor
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This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

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

Anybody who refers to this film as “brilliant” is a moron.

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A movie that only an 8-year-old Christian environmentalist could love.

(1966 – ) American film critic
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I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
Books Reviews/Criticism

I've been reviewing movies for a long time, and I can't think of one that more dramatically shoots itself in the foot.

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