Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 9)

Director Ted Demme is a moron, and here’s why.

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You know, when the Devil’s spawn are susceptible to steak-knife attacks, evil has a problem.

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Wild Wild West is a comedy dead zone. You stare in disbelief as scenes flop and die. The movie is all concept and no content; the elaborate special effects are like watching money burn on the screen…

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
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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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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
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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.

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In this day and age, there’s simply no good excuse for having that many children.

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You have but two topics, yourself and me and I'm sick of both.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
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It resembles a tortoise shell cat having a fit in a plate of tomatoes.

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

Sometimes he was inaudible – those were his best moments.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
People Reviews/Criticism

Memoirs of a Geisha builds a beautiful garden, then runs an interstate through it to let more people in.

writer, editor & film reviewer
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This is a woman who thinks the Spanish Inquisition was just tough love for heretics.

(1955 – ) American actor, comedian, producer, director & singer
Reviews/Criticism TV/Movie Quotes

If you plan on seeing Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, bring a book. You won't be able to read it in the darkened theater, of course, but it should still provide more entertainment than what’s on the screen. Feel the binding. Flip through the pages. Wear it on your head.

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If Airplane! was Mad Magazine at its absolute best, a real genius work of insanity, Scary Movie 5 is an issue you don’t bother trying to get back after the teacher confiscates it.

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Did I mention it’s really long?

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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

A movie that only an 8-year-old Christian environmentalist could love.

(1966 – ) American film critic
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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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I went into the Plymouth Theater a comparatively young woman, and I staggered out of it three hours later, twenty years older, haggard and broken with suffering.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
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God help us, there’s going to be a director’s cut, isn’t there?

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Never go near a Ken Loach film unless you're trying to sleep with a socialist. If you are, however, Land And Freedom should do the trick.

British writer, editor & reviewer
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