Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 9)

I hate The Lone Ranger as much as The Lone Ranger hates The Lone Ranger.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Beware geeks bearing scripts.

Reviews/Criticism

The director, whose name is Pitof, was probably issued with two names at birth and would be wise to use the other one on his next project.

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

I think that the film Clueless was very deep; I think it was deep in the way that it was very light; I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.

(1976 – ) American actress
Reviews/Criticism

I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again.

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

Less an exercise in catharsis than an obstacle course of premise-heavy, flashback-drenched plot points, it’s an emotional flat-liner…

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

I have been told that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

(1850 – 1896) American journalist
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
Reviews/Criticism

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

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

Watching Mad Dog Time is like waiting for the bus in a city where you're not sure they have a bus line.

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

“House Beautiful” is the play lousy.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Reviews/Criticism

This movie is a perfect example of what happens when no one’s career is actually on the line.

(movie reviews at themovieguys.net)
Reviews/Criticism

There’s not a scene… that isn’t awful.

American writer & film critic
Reviews/Criticism

It is easier to pull down than to build up.

Proverbs Reviews/Criticism

The weird part about the advertising for Midnight in Paris is that it wasn't at all presented as some kind of time travel fantasy, which meant I left my aviator goggles and opium ampoules at home.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

This show may well exist on a plane where the awesomely terrible is equivalent to the terribly awesome.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Reviews/Criticism

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

The battle was lost several movies earlier.

musician & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

She appeared to be suffering from: ‘Fallen archness.’

(1838 – 1918) journalist, historian, academic & novelist
Reviews/Criticism

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

(1891 – 1951) comedian, singer, theater & film actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism