Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 27)

One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend hearing it a second time.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

Dragging your boyfriend/husband to this movie will give him the leverage to demand multiple screenings of Jerry Bruckheimer films as penance. Ladies, you have been warned.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Here’s the big mystery of Pittsburgh: How did this movie manage to be so completely terrible?

film critic
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If I felt guilty I’d call this a guilty pleasure but since I don’t I’ll just call it trash I enjoy. So if you decide to go don't complain to me that the film was crap. I warned you.

film critic
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It would kill a cat and turn rocks into scrambled eggs.

(1913 – 1975) American actor
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It just seems like a bunch of actors playing dress-up.

film reviewer
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To imagine that there was a whole process required to bring this film to screen is almost too painful to imagine.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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This feature makes Three Stooges Meet Hercules look like a visionary satire.

movie writer, reviewer & columnist
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Listen, dear, you couldn’t write f**k in the dust on a Venetian blind.

(1913 – 1991) Australian actress
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It’s disposable fun. Check your brain at the door on the way in. Drop all memory of the movie on your way out.

film critic
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George Moore wrote excellent English until he discovered grammar.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Communication Language Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

(1946 – ) British playwright, screen writer & film director
Communication Reviews/Criticism

Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who inadvertently acquires the ability to make herself invisible. This is not a gift Alba seems particularly comfortable with, as the last thing she needs is to be heard but not seen.

(1950 – ) American journalist, critic & essayist
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This film appears to be something of an homage to "Some Like it Hot", which is kind of like saying that a bum taking a crap in a dumpster is an homage to “Star Wars.”

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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I can sum it up like this: no boobs, no blood, no point. Walk away from this one please!

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I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer, according to the credits. Homer’s estate should sue.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Heaven sends us good meat, but the Dieil sends cooks.


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The movie has been signed by Michael Bay. This is the same man who directed The Rock in 1996. Now he has made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Faust made a better deal.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture – none of it under the right people.

(1909 – 1955) American author, journalist, poet, screenwriter & film critic
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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