Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 8)

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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I thought the play was frightful but I saw it under particularly unfortunate circumstances…. the curtain was up.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
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Motion Sickness Nightmare

film critic
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Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
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The mistake was keeping the Titanic afloat long after the picture had begun to sink.

(1926 – ) American film critic & writer
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I have read your book and much like it.

(1900 – 1986) American teacher & translator
Books Reviews/Criticism

It’s an underestimation of the intelligence of your average eight year old to believe his or her rapt attention can be held for long by a film like this.

film critic
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Watching them was like watching two men who'd been thrown out of an airplane trying to share the same parachute.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist
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There's less in this than meets the eye.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
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Tomorrow You're Gone looks like it was made after reading the first chapter of Noir for Dummies.

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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Since the scenes where they're together are so much less convincing than the ones where they fall apart, watching the movie is like being on a double-date from hell.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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Barbra’s only spontaneous moment in Prince of Tides comes when Nick tosses her a football and she screams “My nails!”

(Paul Rudnick) (1957 – ) Satiric film critic & author
Acting Reviews/Criticism

If I’d had anything to do with it, I’d be wearing a balaclava and writing under an assumed name.

British broadcaster, writer & film critic
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Next to Epic Movie and Date Movie, the Scary Movies are French cuisine.

American writer & film critic
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Negative reviews seem to slide off Pia’s back like discarded mink coats.

(1946 – ) filmmaker, actor & writer
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I even watched Mulholland Drive in French… it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either.

Irish radio broadcaster
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This couple has endured for over 900 years; the least Tristan & Isolde can do is show us a reason why.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny… yet no French sex comedies are funny.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons
Entertainment Film Places Reviews/Criticism

I am sitting in the smallest room of my house; I have your review before me… in a moment it shall be behind me.

(1873 – 1916) German composer, conductor, pianist & teacher
Insults Reviews/Criticism

Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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