Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 8)

Whenever I see Denise Richards I tend to say the same thing Dustin Hoffman’s father said in “The Graduate”: ‘plastics’.

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More people are killed in this movie than will ever see it.

American writer & columnist
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I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Books Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

The final irony of Rome is that it demonstrates that it is we, rather than the Romans, who are the ones really declining and falling.

English journalist novelist & television reporter
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I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
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An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Attlee got out.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator
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She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

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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He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Dragging your boyfriend/husband to this movie will give him the leverage to demand multiple screenings of Jerry Bruckheimer films as penance. Ladies, you have been warned.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum.

(1890 – 1954) British critic
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If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age.

(1959 – ) American film critic
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It was W. C. Fields who hated to appear in the same scene with a child, a dog, or a plunging neckline – because nobody in the audience would be looking at him. Jennifer Aniston has the same problem in this movie even when she’s in scenes all by herself.

(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

This had all the drama of a traffic jam.

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There isn't enough Visine in the world!

musician & film reviewer
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One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. An instant landmark of crap.

American movie critic
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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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Watching them was like watching two men who'd been thrown out of an airplane trying to share the same parachute.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist
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Those who cannot remember history are doomed to learn it from Oliver Stone movies.

(1954–2007) Canadian film critic
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Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of wet toilet paper.

(1938 – ) film critic & former television co-host
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