Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 7)

Oh come on. Like you couldn’t smell this turkey rotting from miles away.

writer, editor & film reviewer

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

(1946 – ) filmmaker, actor & writer

The old man and the Cialis.

American movie critic

The mistake was keeping the Titanic afloat long after the picture had begun to sink.

(1926 – ) American film critic & writer

Is it trying to be a parody of itself?

film critic

To imagine that there was a whole process required to bring this film to screen is almost too painful to imagine.

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Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

writer, editor & film reviewer

Next to Epic Movie and Date Movie, the Scary Movies are French cuisine.

American writer & film critic

Valentine's Day is being marketed as a Date Movie. I think it's more of a First-Date Movie. If your date likes it, do not date that person again. And if you like it, there may not be a second date.

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

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night… Brahms lost.

(1898 – 1971) American humorist

Dumb as rocks, thin as paper and dull as scissors…

American movie critic

At least it’s not in 3D.

writer, editor & film reviewer

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

film critic

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history; I'm just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper.

(1901 – 1961) film actor

It is easier to pull down than to build up.

What big clichés you have!

film critic

My name is Bob, and I am a father who is very afraid.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist

His [George Bush] popularity rating – his approval rating – with blacks: two percent… two percent… that is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

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

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The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic