Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 5)

Ignatowski’s got a father? There goes my spore theory!

(1944 – ) American actor, director & producer

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer

Honestly, I’m trying to remember what happened during the mid part of this movie other then a few hazy isolated moments of plot development.

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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

It seems like the career of M. Night Shyamalan has gotten to the point where “it’s not embarrassing” is high compliment.

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… I was idly looking at the cinema ceiling, to see if there was a beam I could throw a rope over.

British writer & film critic

Even this comedic triumvirate cannot prevent the script’s biggest feat of magic: making the laughs disappear.

writer & film reviewer

I think that the film Clueless was very deep; I think it was deep in the way that it was very light; I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

(1976 – ) American actress

This show may well exist on a plane where the awesomely terrible is equivalent to the terribly awesome.

American film critic

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.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)

He never failed to seek a peaceful solution of a problem when all other possibilities had failed.

(1899 – 1970) British Jewish historian

… as fascinating as chewing styrofoam – with the occasional firecracker jammed in to make you chew faster.

film critic

Thor is really just like your dad out in the garage after a few drinks. Only more racist.

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Since the scenes where they're together are so much less convincing than the ones where they fall apart, watching the movie is like being on a double-date from hell.

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

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

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

The best I can say about Conan the Barbarian is that it’s not as bad as I was expecting.

film critic

Dragging your boyfriend/husband to this movie will give him the leverage to demand multiple screenings of Jerry Bruckheimer films as penance. Ladies, you have been warned.

writer, editor & film reviewer

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it’ll be around to miss for long.

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

Like watching an affair between a mad rocking-horse and a rawhide suitcase.

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

Not to be missed — but to have stones thrown at it from point blank range.

(1926 – 2009) Irish dramatist, television writer & essayist