Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 25)

I have been told that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

(1850 – 1896) American journalist
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If I ever do a festival of films that deserve to be overlooked, Friends & Lovers is my opening night selection.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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It resembles a tortoise shell cat having a fit in a plate of tomatoes.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Art Reviews/Criticism

Mr. [Channing] Tatum… gives Keanu Reeves serious competition – defining numerous shades of blank of which I had been thus far unaware.

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

(1946 – ) filmmaker, actor & writer
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Great wine porn.

American author & journalist
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I thought I heard one of the original lines of the show.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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I defy you to write a dumber screenplay.

film critic
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The movie is too busy being thuggish bilge to note the irony of using every tank and missile at Ice Cube’s disposal to rescue a U.S. president about to downgrade defense spending.

English journalist
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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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I have knocked everything but the knees of the chorus girls, and nature has anticipated me there.

(1873–1936) American theater critic
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Apparently the understudy had to go because of her throat; I suppose someone threatened to cut it.

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Entertainment Insults Reviews/Criticism

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

writer, editor & film reviewer
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If you want to see what happens when independent filmmakers have too much money and don’t know what to do with it, just go see Bee Season.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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More people are killed in this movie than will ever see it.

American writer & columnist
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Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

writer, editor & film reviewer
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He uses a lot of big words, and his sentences are from here to the airport.

(1947 – ) American writer & populist political activist
Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

They say he rides as if he’s part of the horse, but they don’t say which part.

(1896 – 1955) American playwright
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It’s like having an orange popcicle, the mild orange taste is pleasing enough, but no one ever spends much time thinking about it afterwards, it’s banished from our thoughts because while the taste is good, it’s also unremarkable.

(movie reviews at themovieguys.net)
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Some newspapers have complained about the graphic scenes of sex and killing, but frankly it was the violence done to the facts that really made me squirm… What is so irritating about Rome is its unerring instinct for missing the point.

English journalist novelist & television reporter
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