Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 5)

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

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

What’s next, “The Old Woman who lives in the Shoe – with Shoulder-Fired Rocket Launchers?”

American film critic
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

(1932 – 1963) novelist & poet
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

She was so bad he shot himself in it.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Reviews/Criticism

This is the same old, tired crap that Woody Allen has been exporting for who knows how many years now. It's like drinking milk with an expiration date from the Reagan era.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building – in disgust.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Like all self-made men he worships his creator.

Insults Reviews/Criticism

It defines boredom by mostly being boring about it.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist
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Think of Cowboys & Aliens as the wet spot on your mattress after a night of questionable passion. Everyone knows who made the wet spot, but no one wants to own up to it.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic
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Some newspapers have complained about the graphic scenes of sex and killing, but frankly it was the violence done to the facts that really made me squirm… What is so irritating about Rome is its unerring instinct for missing the point.

English journalist novelist & television reporter
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I went into the Plymouth Theater a comparatively young woman, and I staggered out of it three hours later, twenty years older, haggard and broken with suffering.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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Last Supper and Original Cast Couldn’t Draw In This House.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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To describe this film as “pornographically violent” is an affront to pornography.

film critic
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By trying to convince us that we’re having a good time even as it pounds us senseless, Speed Racer moves beyond mediocrity and into the realm of active irritant.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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The man who can’t dance thinks the band is no good.

Dance Proverbs Reviews/Criticism

After Earth merits comparison with 2000’s Battlefield Earth, John Travolta’s godawful film tribute to the sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Yes, it’s that bad.

American film critic & televison interviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Colin Farrell’s manful battle with the puerile dialogue, dodgy [Irish] accents, wandering plot and some unreliable supporting performances is greater than anything the real Alexander would have faced, and is ultimately one he cannot win.

Irish film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Mr. [Channing] Tatum… gives Keanu Reeves serious competition – defining numerous shades of blank of which I had been thus far unaware.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Books Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism