Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 10)

He has his head in the clouds and his feet in the box office.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
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About the only redeeming features of The Sweetest Thing is that for a few minutes of the film, Cameron Diaz cavorts around in her underwear, and also sings a song about penises… and even that’s not half as good as it sounds on paper.

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There isn't enough Visine in the world!

musician & film reviewer
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Boat Trip arrives preceded by publicity saying many homosexuals have been outraged by the film. Now that it's in theaters, everybody else has a chance to join them. Not that the film is outrageous. That would be asking too much. It is dim-witted, unfunny, too shallow to be offensive…

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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I am sitting in the smallest room of my house; I have your review before me… in a moment it shall be behind me.

(1873 – 1916) German composer, conductor, pianist & teacher
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He decided to make it [Daisy Miller] exactly as it stood; he crammed James’s words into Cybill’s mouth like fish into a letterbox.

(1931 – ) American-born, British screenwriter, novelist & journalist
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The audience would have booed and hissed after the first act, but you can't do that and yawn at the same time.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
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It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

American writer
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Love is a douche commercial.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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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.

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When you’ve seen all of Ionesco’s plays… you’ve seen one of them.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer
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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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This is the same old, tired crap that Woody Allen has been exporting for who knows how many years now. It's like drinking milk with an expiration date from the Reagan era.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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It is true that I paid it the tribute of tears, but that says nothing, for I am one who weeps at Victorian costumes.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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Apparently the understudy had to go because of her throat; I suppose someone threatened to cut it.

(1865-1940) English actress
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There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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

“ …as fascinating as chewing styrofoam – with the occasional firecracker jammed in to make you chew faster.

film critic
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Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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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
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William Hurt in The Accidental Tourist speaks very slowly, like a Mormon on quaaludes.

(Paul Rudnick) (1957 – ) Satiric film critic & author
Acting Reviews/Criticism

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic
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