Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 11)

A movie so Freudian that you keep expecting it to grow a beard and move to Vienna.

(1962 – ) English journalist
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Tomorrow You're Gone looks like it was made after reading the first chapter of Noir for Dummies.

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I would accuse American Reunion of being misogynistic, but the movie seems to hold all of humanity in contempt, not just women.

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Drew Barrymore sings so badly, deaf people refuse to watch her lips move.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
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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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Perhaps the only use this film has is to give philosophers who sit through it some way of experiencing what eternity truly means.

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

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
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Julianne Moore] spends the entire film walking the razor’s edge: gauging the difference between brilliance and disaster before assertively losing her balance.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

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

I've seen audits that were more thrilling.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Charles Dickens, dead, writes more than [American playwright] Marc Connelly alive.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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“House Beautiful” is the play lousy.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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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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One of us is obviously mistaken.

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Captain America is a movie where nothing really happens until just before the very end, when the director accidentally filmed a few action sequences but made sure that the main bad guy wasn’t involved whatsoever. Then nothing happens, again, then roll credits.

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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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Oh come on. Like you couldn’t smell this turkey rotting from miles away.

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Michael Madsen? Michelle Rodriguez? ‘I’ll take “Actors Who Should Never Appear in Period Pieces” for $500, Alex.’

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[Raymond] Massey won’t be satisfied until he’s assassinated.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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