Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 26)

They inculcate the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancing master.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
Communication Reviews/Criticism

This had all the drama of a traffic jam.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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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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It would perhaps be hard to imagine a clumsier or more disjointed frame-work for the display of the tawdry wares which form Mr. Dickens’s stock-in-trade.

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Chozen is a truly bizarre blend of programming as it mixes prison and rap culture with Revenge of the Nerds.

film reviewer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism Television

Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.

British writer, editor & reviewer
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It’s not complicated… this movie sucks.

film critic
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Colin Farrell’s manful battle with the puerile dialogue, dodgy [Irish] accents, wandering plot and some unreliable supporting performances is greater than anything the real Alexander would have faced, and is ultimately one he cannot win.

Irish film critic
Acting 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

I would much rather see two hours of [Robert Downey, Jr.] improvising without any script, than watch five minutes of Zach Galifianakis’ tired shtick.

film critic
Reviews/Criticism

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)
Reviews/Criticism

Not for the first time the geniuses in the trailer department managed to make a rather unusual film look and sound just like every other movie.

(1959 – ) Canadian-born writer, political commentator & cultural critic
Reviews/Criticism

She appeared to be suffering from: ‘Fallen archness.’

(1838 – 1918) journalist, historian, academic & novelist
Reviews/Criticism

The results are more akin to a high school production of Pearl Harbor.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

It's flawless in its flaws, without a single redeeming element to obscure its idealized awfulness.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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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

“House Beautiful” is the play lousy.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Reviews/Criticism

I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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I have seen all of Hilary Duff’s movies, a fact I keep in reserve when people at parties tell me they’d love to do my job.

Irish film critic
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Many TV programs suck, but none has ever sucked with such eye-popping abandon as this one.

Irish reviewer
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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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