Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 22)

There can't be many advantages to dying of a cocaine overdose at the height of your career, but look at it this way: at least John Belushi didn't have to appear in Blues Brothers 2000.

British film critic & writer
Reviews/Criticism

Planes is an abomination wrapped inside a bullshit party. That’s really all I want to write about this endless crap festival of a film…

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I hate The Lone Ranger as much as The Lone Ranger hates The Lone Ranger.

film critic
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.

(1874 – 1965) English dramatist & novelist
Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

While Babylon A.D. isn’t the worst big-budget sci-fi film ever made, it comes near enough to merit avoiding at all costs.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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I thought the play was frightful but I saw it under particularly unfortunate circumstances…. the curtain was up.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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A buxom temptress… more impressive in silhouette than in action.

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

Ignatowski’s got a father? There goes my spore theory!

(1944 – ) American actor, director & producer
Reviews/Criticism TV/Movie Quotes

In his bodybuilding days Arnold Schwarzenegger was known as the Austrian Oak; then he started acting and was know as… the Austrian Oak.

(1961 – ) English standup comedian, actor & writer
Acting Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours…

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
Reviews/Criticism

More people are killed in this movie than will ever see it.

American writer & columnist
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To call Jackass the worst movie of the year is practically a compliment. It is an appalling illustration of how low corporate America will go to make a buck.

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The works of Richardson… are pictures of high life as conceived by a bookseller, and romances as they would be spiritualized by a Methodist preacher.

(1717 – 1797) English art historian, antiquarian & politician
Reviews/Criticism

It is part of prudence to thank an author for his book before reading it, so as to avoid the necessity of lying about it afterwards.

(1863 – 1952) Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet & novelist
Books Reviews/Criticism

My poor brain hung in there for as long as it could, but it lost its grip during the giant chicken attack and I haven’t seen it since.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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… I was idly looking at the cinema ceiling, to see if there was a beam I could throw a rope over.

British writer & film critic
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There are other ways of scaring yourself, which at best is all this film can offer, like driving blindfold the wrong way up a motorway. Sitting through 13 Ghosts is almost as inadvisable.

Irish reviewer
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Regarded by many as the moment in US cinema when brain cells truly became optional…

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… the most terrifying thing about The X-Files, in fact, are its “fans.” These guys make movie critics look healthy.

British film critic & writer
Reviews/Criticism

Fool! Dost thou not know that creepy children have cursed our screens in numbers too great to count, and by now, we find them marginally less terrifying than navel lint?

writer, editor & film reviewer
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This couple has endured for over 900 years; the least Tristan & Isolde can do is show us a reason why.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism