Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 8)

Mostly makes you want to go home and have a shower.

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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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You know those movies that look like they’re going to be really insipid and then completely surprise you? 17 Again isn’t one of those.

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Listen, dear, you couldn’t write f**k in the dust on a Venetian blind.

(1913 – 1991) Australian actress
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.

(1900 – 1986) American teacher & translator
Books Reviews/Criticism

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words; why does he insist on using only 150?

(1915 – 2002) Israeli diplomat & politician
Communication Language Reviews/Criticism

What big clichés you have!

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It was the visual equivalent of Pringles: unfortunately, we couldn't stop watching it, albeit through our fingers. Painful.

Irish writer & reviewer
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A movie so Freudian that you keep expecting it to grow a beard and move to Vienna.

(1962 – ) English journalist
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This show may well exist on a plane where the awesomely terrible is equivalent to the terribly awesome.

American film critic
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In this day and age, there’s simply no good excuse for having that many children.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right… he failed.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist
Music Reviews/Criticism

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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If I’d had anything to do with it, I’d be wearing a balaclava and writing under an assumed name.

British broadcaster, writer & film critic
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John Waters’ Pink Flamingos has been restored for its 25th anniversary revival, and with any luck at all that means I won’t have to see it again for another 25 years. If I haven’t retired by then, I will.

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

According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.

(Paul Rudnick) (1957 – ) Satiric film critic & author
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This film could have been two hours of [Mel] Gibson scanning through microfiche and it wouldn’t have been any more dull.

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Amateurishness can have its charms. But when it doesn’t, it looks very much like this excruciatingly farcical, alleged romantic comedy…

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Michael Madsen? Michelle Rodriguez? ‘I’ll take “Actors Who Should Never Appear in Period Pieces” for $500, Alex.’

writer, editor & film reviewer
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The most surprising thing about “New Moon,” the second film in the Twilight series, is how much worse it is than the first.

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