Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 9)

The Good, The Bad and the Elderly

musician & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Insults Reviews/Criticism

This feature makes Three Stooges Meet Hercules look like a visionary satire.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist
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Should have sold its soul for a little help in the script department.

author, media consultant & film critic
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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
Reviews/Criticism

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.

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

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

film critic
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She took her curtain calls as though she has just been un-nailed from the cross.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
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They say state-of-the-art special effects can create the illusion of anything on the screen, and now we have proof: It's possible for the Jim Henson folks and Industrial Light and Magic to put their heads together and come up with the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects, and I am not forgetting the Chucky doll…

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

This film has all the energy of a rotting corpse.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

[An] utterly incompetent, painfully unfunny, ploddingly dull waste of time, money and life.

film critic
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Alison Skipworth: You forget I’ve been an actress for forty years.

West: Don’t worry dear, I’ll keep your secret.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Acting Entertainment 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
Reviews/Criticism

It’s a thing, not a movie –- if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes.

film critic
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A giant turd of a movie that was made because someone had the rights to a brand name and needed to exercise them in a timely manner.

film critic
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Angelina Jolie has a fine pair of child-bearing lips.

Irish journalist & film critic
Appearance Reviews/Criticism

It not only promotes every stereotype and invokes every cliché of Brooklyn lore, it combines them all into an insulting composite, fuses that to the chrome-and-fins of the pointless Fifties, and then – weirdly – pretends it’s Shakespeare.

film critic
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Add it all up, and what you’ve got here is a waste of good electricity. I’m not talking about the electricity between the actors. I’m talking about the current to the projector.

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

Nowadays Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.

(1946 – ) British journalist & broadcaster
Acting Reviews/Criticism

One feels that the composer must have made a bet, for all his professional reputation was worth, that he would write the most hideous thing that had ever been put on paper, and he won it, too.

Reviews/Criticism

That film sucked so bad my opinion of it went straight to video.

(1957 – ) American actor, comedian, writer & director
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