Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 4)

You could do worse… by which I mean you couldn't possibly do worse.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

(1877 – 1934) British-American lawyer & writer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

Red Tails is a lousy film. Not wincingly bad, mind you, just mediocre.

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

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

(1887 – 1943) theater critic & commentator
Reviews/Criticism

This book of essays… has all the depth and glitter of a worn dime.

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

Not as fun as Survivor but essential to the Republic.

American television critic
Reviews/Criticism

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

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

A steaming pile of clichés and screaming unlikelihoods.

arts editor
Reviews/Criticism

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

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

You can sue McDonald’s if you get fat, you can sue Marlboro if you get cancer, you can try suing Guinness for all the ugly people you've shagged, but you can't sue your TV for exposing you to this.

Irish reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Memoirs of a Geisha builds a beautiful garden, then runs an interstate through it to let more people in.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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
Reviews/Criticism

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

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Reviews/Criticism

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny… yet no French sex comedies are funny.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons
Entertainment Film Places Reviews/Criticism

Mr Lewis’ pictures appeared to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet
Art Reviews/Criticism

Real-life military trainers – regardless of gender – never make you say, ‘Wow you’re hot!’ They make you say, ‘I’ll do whatever you want, please don’t hurt me.’

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

It is easier to pull down than to build up.

Proverbs Reviews/Criticism

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic
Appearance Reviews/Criticism

As a work of art, it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist
Reviews/Criticism

The results are more akin to a high school production of Pearl Harbor.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism