Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 7)

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

(1877 – 1934) British-American lawyer & writer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

[Lindsay] Lohan reads more like oak than Marilyn Monroe on her most inebriated day.

film critic
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… this just dares you to stay awake.

film reviewer
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One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend hearing it a second time.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
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I thought the play was frightful but I saw it under particularly unfortunate circumstances…. the curtain was up.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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[An] utterly incompetent, painfully unfunny, ploddingly dull waste of time, money and life.

film critic
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Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer.

(1819 – 1900) English art critic, social thinker, poet & artist
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

Not as fun as Survivor but essential to the Republic.

American television critic
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If you plan on seeing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, bring a book. You won't be able to read it in the darkened theater, of course, but it should still provide more entertainment than what’s on the screen. Feel the binding. Flip through the pages. Wear it on your head.

American film critic
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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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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
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Sun Tzu believed that becoming predictable would lead to disaster. Apparently, the creators of The Art of War couldn’t be bothered to take him to heart.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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You must have a better way to spend that $13.

movie critic
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He had delusions of adequacy.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic
Acting 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

Planes is an abomination wrapped inside a bullshit party. That’s really all I want to write about this endless crap festival of a film…

(movie reviews at comedyfilmnerds.com)
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My first thought in watching The Hobbit was: Do we really need this movie? It was my last thought, too.

film reviewer & critic
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What big clichés you have!

film critic
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While Babylon A.D. isn’t the worst big-budget sci-fi film ever made, it comes near enough to merit avoiding at all costs.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Another half-baked helping of the worst kind of scientific clap-trap.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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