Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 5)

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.

(1900 – 1986) American teacher & translator
Books Reviews/Criticism

As awful as you've heard and as bad as you've imagined.

Reviews/Criticism

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Joan Collins unfortunately can’t be with us tonight… she’s busy attending the birth of her next husband.

(1964 – ) English professional snooker player & television personality
People Reviews/Criticism

Happily, Helen Hunt takes the “ick” and “ick” out of chick flick.

film reviewer
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I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

It’s like Isacsson wrote the dialogue to be performed by two sales consultants at a marketing conference.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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In this day and age, there’s simply no good excuse for having that many children.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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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

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo makes a living cleaning fish tanks and occasionally prostituting himself. How much he charges I'm not sure, but the price is worth it if it keeps him off the streets and out of another movie.

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

At first, I thought the sword sequences were in slow-motion, but then I realized these guys just suck.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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It would perhaps be hard to imagine a clumsier or more disjointed frame-work for the display of the tawdry wares which form Mr. Dickens’s stock-in-trade.

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It defines boredom by mostly being boring about it.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist
Reviews/Criticism

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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Bratz (freaky looking teen dolls for girls whose parents won’t let them play with real teenagers) is now a high school movie made for people in Grade 6.

American writer & film critic
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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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Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer, according to the credits. Homer’s estate should sue.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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There’s saccharine writing and then there’s writing that, if you could liquefy it and inject it into the five-year-olds watching this thing, would launch them into space. This is the latter.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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At least it’s not in 3D.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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It's not music, it's a disease.

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