Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 7)

Did I mention it’s really long?

film critic

Happily, Helen Hunt takes the “ick” and “ick” out of chick flick.

film reviewer

Being called a slut by Rush Limbaugh is like being called a slut by an obese drug addict.

(1958 – ) American writer, comedian, satirist & actor

I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter; some day I intend reading it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words; why does he insist on using only 150?

(1915 – 2002) Israeli diplomat & politician

Just three of the least-likable actors in Hollywood paired up with three total has-beens in an over-long, convoluted rehash of every “I hate my boss” plotline that you've ever seen. Except all of the funny ones. 

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Two things should be cut – the second act and the child's throat.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

The Citizen Kane of sperm-donor comedies.

film editor, writer & reviewer

I can sum it up like this: no boobs, no blood, no point. Walk away from this one please!

film critic

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

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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Joan Collins unfortunately can’t be with us tonight… she’s busy attending the birth of her next husband.

(1964 – ) English professional snooker player & television personality

Thus, it should surprise no one that what's eventually expelled onto the screen resembles the discharge of an animal that's been eating poorly to begin with.

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In his bodybuilding days Arnold Schwarzenegger was known as the Austrian Oak; then he started acting and was know as… the Austrian Oak.

(1961 – ) English standup comedian, actor & writer

Theodore Dreiser should ought to write nicer.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

Keanu Reeves, perhaps worried that he was showing too much range, has purged himself of all expression apart from a worried frown and a sorrowful grimace.

(1966 – ) American journalist & film critic

Just as long as the real thing and twice as noisy.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

What’s next, “The Old Woman who lives in the Shoe – with Shoulder-Fired Rocket Launchers?”

American film critic

The Wrong Stuff.

American journalist, author & film critic

It not only promotes every stereotype and invokes every cliché of Brooklyn lore, it combines them all into an insulting composite, fuses that to the chrome-and-fins of the pointless Fifties, and then – weirdly – pretends it’s Shakespeare.

film critic