Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 13)

Negative reviews seem to slide off Pia’s back like discarded mink coats.

(1946 – ) filmmaker, actor & writer
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You have but two topics, yourself and me and I'm sick of both.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
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John Waters’ Pink Flamingos has been restored for its 25th anniversary revival, and with any luck at all that means I won’t have to see it again for another 25 years. If I haven’t retired by then, I will.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Sun Tzu believed that becoming predictable would lead to disaster. Apparently, the creators of The Art of War couldn’t be bothered to take him to heart.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Anybody who refers to this film as “brilliant” is a moron.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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You’ll have more fun setting fire to yourself in the parking lot. You’ll be more entertained getting hit by a bus.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Gone in 60 Seconds seems to be trying hard.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist
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I rented The Cool Surface last week; words can't describe how awful it is. I'm a big Teri Hatcher fan, but a rental… is $2.75 thrown down the drain. Save your money by reading the attached plot synopsis: 
[WARNING: spoiler follows] Teri Hatcher has breasts. They look OK.

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This show may well exist on a plane where the awesomely terrible is equivalent to the terribly awesome.

American film critic
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If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building – in disgust.

American film critic
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This had all the drama of a traffic jam.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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It was a cute picture; they used the basic story of Wuthering Heights and worked in surf riders.

(1927 – 2018) playwright & screenwriter
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Watching Tallulah Bankhead on the stage is like watching somebody skating on thin ice – everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

He had delusions of adequacy.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend hearing it a second time.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer
Entertainment 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

Not to be missed — but to have stones thrown at it from point blank range.

(1926 – 2009) Irish dramatist, television writer & essayist
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The first time I saw you on stage I realized what a wonderful voice you've got; I think you're so brave not to have had it trained.

(1836 – 1911) English dramatist, librettist, poet & illustrator
Acting Insults Reviews/Criticism

Then Gil and Noel sung a charming duet of “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better”. They were both wrong.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer
Reviews/Criticism TV/Movie Quotes

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.

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