Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 2)

I went into the Plymouth Theater a comparatively young woman, and I staggered out of it three hours later, twenty years older, haggard and broken with suffering.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy. Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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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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I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Even a 14-year-old — maybe especially a 14-year-old — knows lameness when he sees it.

American television critic
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A bad temper, like Mr. Whistler's paintings, should never be displayed in public.

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

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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To describe this film as “pornographically violent” is an affront to pornography.

film critic
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Carman's First Law of Television: The third-rated network always has the best shows, because in its desperation it begins to take chances.

American film critic
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It’s boring.

film critic
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I smile so seldom that I wonder at Arlene Francis, who smiles persistently… like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, once she turns it on can she turn it off?

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
People Reviews/Criticism

Two hours of looking up at Marlon Brando's butt cheeks squashed flat against a glass tabletop would have been a preferable to this werewolf masterpiece.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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Was there no one connected with this project who read the screenplay, considered the story, evaluated the proposed film and vomited?

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: They could just have called it How to Lose an Intelligent Audience in 10 Seconds.

British editor, writer, author & reviewer
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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.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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Me no Leica.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
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Regarded by many as the moment in US cinema when brain cells truly became optional…

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… this just dares you to stay awake.

film reviewer
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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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There’s a certain irony in having a timeless tale about a man finding his soul being told in the most soulless way possible.

film critic
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