Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 16)

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica… it was the festival's closing film, coming at the end like the horses in a parade, perhaps for the same reason.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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I’m still working on my time machine; if I ever perfect it, I’m going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made… and then I’m going after Hitler.

(1956 – ) American comedian
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There is some serious venom spewing from this movie, probably because screenwriters Steve Franks and Tim Herlihy are beginning to realize their only talent in life consists of riding their friend’s coattails through the Garden of Mediocrity.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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“Flubber” is further evidence of the death of cinema.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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I've seen audits that were more thrilling.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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The final irony of Rome is that it demonstrates that it is we, rather than the Romans, who are the ones really declining and falling.

English journalist novelist & television reporter
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If you’re a Stooges fan, go see the movie. If you like crude, silly slapstick, go see the movie. If you have a stick up your ass, go see Titanic.

film critic
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Hard to tell whether somebody wanted to make a pretentious allegory and threw in a naked Melanie Griffith to help market it, or just wanted to market a naked Melanie Griffith and threw in a pretentious allegory as justification.

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Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Insults Reviews/Criticism

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

(1932 – 1963) novelist & poet
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Like all self-made men he worships his creator.

Insults Reviews/Criticism

The director, whose name is Pitof, was probably issued with two names at birth and would be wise to use the other one on his next project.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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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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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly; it should be thrown with great force.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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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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Red Tails is a lousy film. Not wincingly bad, mind you, just mediocre.

film critic
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Even this comedic triumvirate cannot prevent the script’s biggest feat of magic: making the laughs disappear.

writer & film reviewer
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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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Mr Lewis’ pictures appeared to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet
Art Reviews/Criticism

Bratz (freaky looking teen dolls for girls whose parents won’t let them play with real teenagers) is now a high school movie made for people in Grade 6.

American writer & film critic
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A buxom temptress… more impressive in silhouette than in action.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer
Acting Reviews/Criticism