Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 4)

I want something that will keep me awake thinking it was the food I ate and not the show I saw.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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Drew Barrymore sings so badly, deaf people refuse to watch her lips move.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
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This movie is the definition of a dud, something that just sits inert on screen.

film critic
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Thor is really just like your dad out in the garage after a few drinks. Only more racist.

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No matter how sheltered and virginal the heroine, at the moment of crisis, it turns out that she has all along been an expert kick-boxer.

(1960 – ) Canadian-American journalist
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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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This had all the drama of a traffic jam.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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Like acting with 210 pounds of condemned veal.

(1913 – 1991) Australian actress
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The movie’s just such a pain in the ass.

American movie critic
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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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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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Shakespeare in the mud.

American television critic
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It’s a thing, not a movie –- if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes.

film critic
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Don't look now, Tallulah, but your show is slipping.

(1918 – 2001) American sportswriter, commentator & actor
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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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Charles Dickens, dead, writes more than [American playwright] Marc Connelly alive.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Communication Reading/Writing Reviews/Criticism

To describe this film as “pornographically violent” is an affront to pornography.

film critic
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It was the visual equivalent of Pringles: unfortunately, we couldn't stop watching it, albeit through our fingers. Painful.

Irish writer & reviewer
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… it’s about as entertaining as being pulled over by U.S. customs.

(1954 – ) British writer & critic
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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
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His [George Bush] popularity rating – his approval rating – with blacks: two percent… two percent… that is somewhere between Mark Fuhrman and sickle cell anemia.

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator
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