Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 5)

It’s like Isacsson wrote the dialogue to be performed by two sales consultants at a marketing conference.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

On film, Bonfire achieves a consistency of ineptitude rare even in this era of over-inflated cinematic air bags.

American film critic & televison interviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Overheard at the pitch meeting: “So what if The Terminator was like, um… a sexy lady in a red leather get-up?” “Sold!”

film editor, writer & reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Even those who call Mr. Faulkner our greatest literary sadist do not fully appreciate him, for it is not merely his characters who have to run the gauntlet but also his readers.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Communication Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

I will one day be thin… but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

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

Literary diarrhea.

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

It would perhaps be hard to imagine a clumsier or more disjointed frame-work for the display of the tawdry wares which form Mr. Dickens’s stock-in-trade.

Reviews/Criticism

No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

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

It's not music, it's a disease.

(1911 – 2010) American bandleader
Entertainment Music Reviews/Criticism

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

I knew we were in trouble when the cops drew a chalk outline around the box office.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

If they'd stuffed the child's head up the horse's arse, they would have solved two problems at once.

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

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
Reviews/Criticism

That isn’t brimstone we’re smelling on Ghost Rider. It’s something else.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

We did not conceive it possible that even Mr. Lincoln would produce a paper so slipshod, so loose-joined, so puerile, not alone in literary construction, but in its ideas, its sentiments, its grasp.

Reviews/Criticism Speech

My guess is that African Americans will be offended by the movie, and whites will be embarrassed. The movie will bring us all together, I imagine, in paralyzing boredom.

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

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels; I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer
Books Insults Reviews/Criticism

Not as fun as Survivor but essential to the Republic.

American television critic
Reviews/Criticism

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Dieil sends cooks.


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It's flawless in its flaws, without a single redeeming element to obscure its idealized awfulness.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism