Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 6)

As awful as you've heard and as bad as you've imagined.

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… as fascinating as chewing styrofoam – with the occasional firecracker jammed in to make you chew faster.

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The film quickly abandons biting sarcasm in favor of gumming you to a sloppy, slow death.

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[Director Michael] Caton-Jones has about as much understanding of symbol and metaphor as a sock puppet.

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Though I could follow the outline of the story and found some of the images memorable, the meaning of it all eluded me. There was a child in the audience, but unfortunately she left during the final credits, so I was unable to turn to her for elucidation.

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It’s truly rare that you see this level of insightful childhood psychoanalysis in a film about a basketball-playing dog.

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

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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

Literary diarrhea.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Insults Reviews/Criticism

It's like watching the travel video of the most annoying guy you know.

film reviewer
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Beware geeks bearing scripts.

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If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it’ll be around to miss for long.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age.

(1959 – ) American film critic
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The scariest moment in the movie was when it intimated that there might yet be another episode.

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Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

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

Barb Wire is unlikely to spark heated intellectual debate at film schools anytime soon.

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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.

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Should have sold its soul for a little help in the script department.

author, media consultant & film critic
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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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About the only thing this cinematic whirligig skimps on is coherence, both narrative and aesthetic.

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The Road to Wellville… is basically a… production of a Benny Hill episode.

American film critic
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