Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 5)

She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.

British writer, editor & reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Steve Guttenberg and a friendship between a dog and a dolphin – in what fiery pit of hell was this heartwarming plot conjured?

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

Boat Trip arrives preceded by publicity saying many homosexuals have been outraged by the film. Now that it's in theaters, everybody else has a chance to join them. Not that the film is outrageous. That would be asking too much. It is dim-witted, unfunny, too shallow to be offensive…

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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More people are killed in this movie than will ever see it.

American writer & columnist
Reviews/Criticism

Two things should be cut – the second act and the child's throat.

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

film critic
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Your expectations of how bad The Lone Ranger is can’t trump the reality.

American film critic & televison interviewer
Reviews/Criticism

It’s not giving away the surprises that ruins the movie, it’s the surprises that ruin the movie… this director is a young dog who needs some new tricks.

(1959 – ) Canadian-born writer, political commentator & cultural 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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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

Fool! Dost thou not know that creepy children have cursed our screens in numbers too great to count, and by now, we find them marginally less terrifying than navel lint?

writer, editor & film reviewer
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I wish you could have heard that pretty crash Beauty and the Beast made when, with one sweeping, liquid gesture, I tossed it out of my twelfth-story window.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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The Good, The Bad and the Elderly

musician & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, in order to provide articles for people who can’t read.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Avoid all needle drugs – the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

(1936 – 1989) American social & political activist
Insults Reviews/Criticism

It’s a death march with cocktails.

American journalist
Reviews/Criticism

War of the Worlds is rated PG-13. Much of the earth’s population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

(1966 – ) American journalist & film critic
Reviews/Criticism

I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Like something you'd see if the NRA had its own music-video channel.

(1959 – ) American film critic
Reviews/Criticism