Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 6)

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer
Entertainment Insults Reviews/Criticism

If I ever do a festival of films that deserve to be overlooked, Friends & Lovers is my opening night selection.

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

Safe House will have you on the edge of your seat – so you can spring out of it the second the credits roll.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

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

American film critic & televison interviewer
Reviews/Criticism

At least it’s not in 3D.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

“Flubber” is further evidence of the death of cinema.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

Watching [Nicolas] Cage karate chop Leelee “Made-for-TV” Sobiesky into submission is almost worth the price of admission. Well, assuming admission was free.

editor, director, performer, & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

If I had wanted to watch two hours of “VH-1,” guess what? … I would have stayed home and done that… for free.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

Earthquake epic 10.5 presents a choice: Either run screaming or pass the beer and savor a camp classic… it is so phenomenally bad it borders on spoofed genius.

American television critic
Reviews/Criticism

Charles Dickens, dead, writes more than [American playwright] Marc Connelly alive.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

(1891 – 1951) comedian, singer, theater & film actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Hook and Ladder is the sort of play that gives failures a bad name.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic
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

A play in which nothing happens… twice.

(1919–1989) Irish literary critic
Reviews/Criticism

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Reviews/Criticism

If Airplane! was Mad Magazine at its absolute best, a real genius work of insanity, Scary Movie 5 is an issue you don’t bother trying to get back after the teacher confiscates it.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours…

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

No matter how sheltered and virginal the heroine, at the moment of crisis, it turns out that she has all along been an expert kick-boxer.

(1960 – ) Canadian-American journalist
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

Don't look now, Tallulah, but your show is slipping.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor
Reviews/Criticism

Is it trying to be a parody of itself?

film critic
Reviews/Criticism