Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 6)

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

Negative reviews seem to slide off Pia’s back like discarded mink coats.

(1946 – ) filmmaker, actor & writer
Reviews/Criticism

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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I am sitting in the smallest room of my house; I have your review before me… in a moment it shall be behind me.

(1873 – 1916) German composer, conductor, pianist & teacher
Insults Reviews/Criticism

The only reason you could possibly want to sit through this low-rent rip-off is to force your significant other to terminate the relationship because of your terrible taste in films.

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The best thing about it is that it runs for only 75 minutes.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Did I mention it’s really long?

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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House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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A totally stupid movie, Star Trek Into Darkness falls apart as it goes, raining debris as it implodes like a building being demolished.

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

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
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I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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While it’s almost certainly the movie event of the year for filmgoers passionate about deer urine humor, Grown Ups 2 will bore, annoy, and disgust audiences of nearly every other persuasion.

(movie reviews at rottentomatoes.com)
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As awful as you've heard and as bad as you've imagined.

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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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Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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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
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Barb Wire is unlikely to spark heated intellectual debate at film schools anytime soon.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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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

Like all self-made men he worships his creator.

Insults Reviews/Criticism