Subject: Reviews/Criticism

Reviews/Criticism:

Biting reviews and criticism of film, theater, television, music, books etc.


If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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This Mamet adaptation takes place in a very confined space, involves little or no action and is mostly concerned with how many minutes an actor can spew Mamet’s laborious dialogue without collapsing.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic
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Adam Sandler’s latest moronic film instead continually opens a can of dumb ass on filmgoers.

writer, editor, correspondent & film reviewer
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I wish you could have heard that pretty crash Beauty and the Beast made when, with one sweeping, liquid gesture, I tossed it out of my twelfth-story window.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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After Earth merits comparison with 2000’s Battlefield Earth, John Travolta’s godawful film tribute to the sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Yes, it’s that bad.

American film critic & televison interviewer
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To describe this film as “pornographically violent” is an affront to pornography.

film critic
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The film quickly abandons biting sarcasm in favor of gumming you to a sloppy, slow death.

film critic
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I even watched Mulholland Drive in French… it didn’t make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn’t make any less sense either.

Irish radio broadcaster
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If Threat Matrix made it onto the ABC schedule, imagine the shows that didn’t.


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Darn the luck, viewers apparently have decided to demand competent acting, a direct threat to NBC’s Titans.

American film critic
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I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

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

Purists, be warned: This scare-flick quickie [House of Wax] has as much relation to the 1953 Vincent Price classic with the same title as Paris Hilton does to acting.

American film critic & televison interviewer
Insults Reviews/Criticism

I wouldn’t buy your book if you gave it to me.

Misspokements Reviews/Criticism

Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. … If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Turn with caution!

musician & film reviewer
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It’s disposable fun. Check your brain at the door on the way in. Drop all memory of the movie on your way out.

film critic
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… what a pity (Albert) Smith will tell only two-thirds of the truth.

(1803 – 1857) English writer
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It probably helps if you’re high too when checking out Bad Teacher, as that might help you get through the film’s excruciating lack of plot, combined with a cast of characters that might as well have been lifted directly from every single f**king movie about a school ever made… ever.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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If given the choice between going to class and seeing the high-school comedy General Education, go with school.

film reviewer
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He writes dialogues by cutting monologues in two.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism